Marantz SA-10 arriving Monday!

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.  

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?

I usually purchase the sacd's if the price gap isn't too great.  They do sound better, not vastly better, but noticeable.

d2girls, I would say the difference between SACD and CD is all in the player.
With the Marantz SA-10 the difference is made even smaller than usual. Since the decoding of the CDs is done with DSD also.One of the main reasons I BOUGHT the $7000 Marantz SA-10 is to play a LOT of regular CDs. (I only own a few SACDs, but own over 2,500 CDs)I never liked SACD due to the strange effect of they have no ’background’. As if the music flows out of a Black Hole... Instead of a room. Some folks love that effect. I do not. So I stayed away from SACD. The Marantz SA-10 playing regular CDs does not ’do’ that to the CDs it plays. So IMO the effect is in the mastering? not the playback.And not the playback of CDs using DSD.So for the few SACDs I own that are dual disc, no difference worth shouting out about. And I have no plans to buy any SACDs. CD is fine by me.

blueranger

have you reached the 1st 100-hour mark of listening time

Happy Listening!