Marantz SA-10 arriving Monday!

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.

I think the headphone jack on the SA-10 us dandy. Detailed and what Rain man might say, "sparkly". I still like the filter one setting and factory default on the other settings. 
 I just out the new Zaolla silverline balanced interconnects on the 14b3. Music has a little more zip and excitement but leans a little to the edgy side. I know silver can be brutally revealing bring out a components weakness. Music has a little more impact and that is expected since silver is a faster conducter. The KGACs were fast and some songs that start out woukd actually jolt me a little. I finally gave up on them because they were to revealing to the older equipment I had. I wish I had kept them but hey trade in for new toys is the game. I did burn them in for a week in my cable cooker and that helped. I hope the Zaollas break in and mello some.
 I stay on the filter 1 setting. I still use the factory default settings on the other sound shaping options. This player is the bomb. It decodes  a fantastic digital signal into a lush landscape of sonic pleasures. With that said, however I'm not retiring my TT.