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Marantz SA-10 arriving Monday!

I've been hearing and reading all I can about this player during this last year. I have a 6005 right now and it's a nice player but not as good as my analog rig (10k) so it's not a fair comparison. Elizabeth mentioned that her SA-10 is better than her analog. I will be comparing the 2 SACD players side by side. I have at least 3 CD's in which I have duplicates. I'm fascinated about how the circuitry upsamples to DSD SACD. Well not exactly but somehow an improvement over Redbook CD. I have a 2" thick maple block coming in the same day for it. It's going to be a long weekend. I know it can't work miracles on all CD's. If there is jitter in the recording then supposedly you will never get that out. Speak up if I'm wrong about that.
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jafant
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milpai
another +vote for Schubert. Add some Liszt, for good measure.
Happy Listening!
elizabeth
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My go to Classical composer is Beethoven. He is clearly the top dude of all Classical composers. If I could only play the music of one guy, it would certainly be Beethoven. After that it becomes more personal, Bach vs Handel vs Brahms vs Debussy vs Stravinsky vs Mahler. All different styles for different tastes. Then there is Opera.
goose
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For newer classical listeners the "Living Stereo" sacd of the Brahms and Tchaikovsky violin concertos with Heifetz and the Chicago Symphony is hard to beat.  An old recording with the classic three neumann microphone technique.  It sounds wonderful and Heifetz is my favorite violinist.  
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d2girls
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not sure if the same can be said for the other regular living stereo cd releases, but i have a living stereo cd release for dvorak new world symphony and it sounds amazing to my ears. is sacd really all that much better?
goose
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I usually purchase the sacd's if the price gap isn't too great.  They do sound better, not vastly better, but noticeable.
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