Marantz SA-10 arriving Monday!

Elizabeth,
I don't see anyone else asking this question (surprisingly), so I will. Why would you buy such an amazing player, and decide to feed it a signal from a multi disc carousel player? I saw that you said that you are "saving" the transport in the S10, but from what? It should last for many years. I have been using a Pioneer PD S95 that I bought used here for well over 10 years and it still works perfectly. Have you A-B'd both ways to see what performance you might be missing by doing it this way? 

I have been using a variety of rock music and dance (Madonna) to break it in. It still doesn't make a poorly mastered CD sound good. I just bought LZ HOTH double CD with bonus tracks andis very bright and very shrill. I used Shine ola and did a Bedini clarifier spin with a super black hole damper disc. Has anyone else noticed that a bad CD won't change much even on a good player. Now the Marantz does make a large proportion of my collection much more musical. I have found that many more records were mastered well than an equal amount of CDs 

I do not share the pessimism about CDs with blueranger. I would say only a very few CDs I own have bad HF sound. All the stuff about the HF, to me is the rest of the system, and perhaps lack of (correct??) power conditioning? I am 100% a high frequency nutcase. It HAS to be perfect! and I own Magnepan 20.7s. They have one of the very best HF transducers ever. Everything in my system is geared to perfect high frequency reproduction. EVERYTHING.And I can say the Marantz SA-10 delivers!!!!
SO I suggest to blueranger his system is busted someplace else and not from the SA-10? (sorry, not meaning to cause any insult) I use a tube pramp as a ’glorified tube buffer. mainly at this point I just like the added warmth, and no longer to ’hide’ the digital grunge. But I first got it TO HIDE THE GRUNGE. years back.Cheap ones are not worth the trouble. I had used a VAC Standard, until it went dead, and now just got a Conrad Johnson ACT 2 as a fancy tube buffer.
ADDED: Now I am not using new,Rock recordings with grunge bands... So it may be true about recent CD recordings.. I stopped listening to ’new’ music at some point.. I own so much great stuff I do not need to find new stuff..

Hi Elizabeth,
What about the transport question?