Marantz SA-1 reliability problem

Rdr4b: Where do you live in CA? I live in the LA area (West Hollywood) and have not been experiencing any fluctuations in voltage for the past four+ plus months. I am running the computer off of an APC device which sounds an alarm when fluctuations occur. We are home basically 7/24 and things have been very steady for quite some time. We are also on the myopic carrier, SC Edison. Is PG&E now experiencing problems? Otherwise it may be a localized problem (hopefully not as local as your equipment).

Hi, I live in Alexandria, VA (Washington DC suburb) and have had my SA-1 for 9-10 months, running it every day for at least an hour, and no problems w/fuses or anything else. We don't have the electrical probs LA has been having, however. don't you love your player? I play mostly CDs on it and couldn't be more pleased.

I live in Pasadena area and my friend lives in Arcadia (which is the next city). We had a couple of un-warned brown-out but none of those events cause the fuse to zap. Instead, I was almost sure that the unstable electricity has something to do with it since I did obvserve wall voltage dropping to around 100V during some extremely warm days.

Both my friend's and my problem took place while we switched on on the unit. The motor starts spinning normally for about 2-3 seconds, and then die, leaving only the 2 red LED on.

Hi, SC53,
Although the SA-1 kicks ass while playing SACD, I am using it more as a CD player since there simply isn't enough software available in the market that interests me. As it turns out, I found myself listening LP nearly 90% of the time.