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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
elizabeth
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I own SIX versions of Blonde on Blonde.                     
20 bit super bit mapping CD                     
Multi surround SACD                        
Mono box CD                  
MFSL recent box LPs                       
Mono LPs recent release                
Original two eye.LPs                   
Sadly I am way way to lazy to bother listening to them all to report anything. LOL
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geoffkait
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A little friendly advice. Throw away all six of those Blonde on Blonde and just buy one, the Japanese DSD SACD Fat Digipack. Thank me now or thank me later.
elizabeth
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Nope. Sorry Geoff. I'll keep what I own. The sound is good enough.. I just bought the more recent reissues to keep Dylan in comfort in his dotage...  Though I have to say the first few Dylan albums on the (relatively) recent MoFi  LPs sound like he is right in the room with me.. Up until he/Columbia starts adding in a lot of manipulation to the sound...
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blueranger OP
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Just got Yes "Going for the One " remastered CD and it is awesome on the Marantz. All the high frequencies that were shrill on the record are now tonally very pleasant.
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jafant
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glupson

Thank You  for the follow up. Agreed, each "new" pressing will have a different mastering (tinkering) for better or worse.  Columbia will put their house sound on each issue as well as MoFi. Compression is a consideration also.

Happy Listening!
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