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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.
blueranger
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jafant
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blueranger

Thanks! for sharing some of your fave discs. Are you playing single-layer SACD titles as well? I would be interested in reading about comparisons between SL and Hybrid (cd plus sacd layer) selections.


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blueranger OP
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Both but don't never thought that single layer and hybrids could sound different? Interesting
elizabeth
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I am of an opinion that many hybrid layer CD portion of SACD are also BETTER MASTERED than the previous generation plain CD.I have no proof, but seems that way to me.            
And I am listening to CDs 99.9% of the time.(I own 2,600 CDs, and maybe 10 SACD! (8 of which are hybrid) I own two really early SACD which have no CD layer.
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One wonders if the CD layer suffers the same overly aggressive compression as the SACD layer? 😬
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elizabethThank You for chiming in. The single layer (SL) SACD will only use its designated laser. The hybrid will use both CD and SACD lazer(s) per design.  Those early SACD titles were sourced closer to the master tapes.Once the hybrids came onto the scene, remastering/remixing,  became common practice. As GK reports above, usually means more compression.
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