Marantz SA-10 arriving Monday!

Worse case scenario lets say 10 
 years from now my transport dies. I hope streaming units will have become user friendly and the sound quality will far surpass what we have now on Redbook CD. By that time I will be able to copy all my CDs with a super sophisticated quantum DAC that can decompress the horrid recordings of this decade. And maybe give it something a little extra in the resolution department. Im a little uncomfortable using ny transport all the time like Elizabeth warns, just how long does a top quality transport last anyway????? My Shanling T200 from 03 started giving me trouble reading discs about 8 years ago and got to the point 2 years ago where 90 percent would not decode. Shanling stopped supporting this unit years ago. I just hope Marantz is a more customer friendly company. I still wish it would work because after the Parts Connexion mod it was very musical. In some ways more than the Marantz. Fast bass attack. The midrange was more forward and that's not a bad thing for rock music. It now sits over on a shelf on top of my records.. I don't want to take it to the dump. Amazingly it will still play a Mamas and Papas remasted by Steve Hoffman. That is the only CD that it has consistently been playable without having to load it a dozen times. I will drag it out one day again. I will see. I'm happy with tbe SA-10. Its a keeper and have it well insured and an updated security system with cameras. They will have to take it out of my cold dead hands. Lol

In all the years I have owned CD spinners, I have had units fail due to capacitors, motors failing, I have never had a laser go bad. IMO the reason for this is cleaning off the CD/DVD/etc with a soft ’blush (cosmetic) brush. EVERY TIME. no matter how clean they look, I brush them off.
Why? Back when CDs came out, there were charts showing how close the reading head IS to the CD. A fragment of airborne smoke is a boulder, a thin human hair is as large as a big tree trunk to the gap. Consider it like driving down the freeway, (reading your data) and all over the place are large rocks and tree trunks as you smash into them trying to read to data road... So Soon your lens is going to look like a beat up useless pile. And IMO THAT is why folks spinners stop reading. No weak laser.. just a messed up lens.
(rant over)
Anyway, so I brush off every disc every time.

Good point well taken. I dry brush every record before I drop the needle. All records vacuum cleaner, stored in plastic sleeves with album jackets. I clean all CDs too but not before playing. My Marantz has been skipping about every 30 hozrs of playing. The CD only  loses a sec or two. The 8005 I had for 15 months never skipped. Will this get worse????? Like my Shanling not being able to read discs less and less. I remember In 05 it started having trouble reading SACDs I might have to give it 3-6 reloads but it would go. It would never play Tommy. When I had to have it serviced up North around 05. The Yankee said if it doesn't play or has trouble playing a disc now and then don't worry. It was only SACDs at that time. If I had made him fix it while they still had replacement parts it would be working today!!!! Thanks for your professional opinion whoever you were. I hope you read thus post. Hey doctor it hurts when I move my arm a special kind of way. WELL DONT MOVE IT THAT KIND OF SPECIAL WAY!!! NEXT. 

The "yankee"?  He must be from the Bronx.😝

Listening via headphones (Rudistor RPX33 mkII, Sennheiser HD800) and checked the 'options' Definitely like noise shaping mode 4-0.
At least to play Deep Purple "Machine Head"!And discovered the AC plug into the Rhodium duplex, the sound is more mellow than in the gold Furutech (from Furman REF20i Technical power section)I know some would listen via the Marantz SA-10. but I own the Rudistor, (which is a really great headamp) and the Senns phones cord it attached to the rack next to it. So the music comes out the SA-10, through the Bryston BP-26, to the Rudistor on Tape out.I could see trying the SA-10 out. But I refuse to cut the zip tie holding the phones cord just to satisfy some imaginary audiogon reader.