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.
@anwar sir ,did you update the firmware of z1es 18444 then connect with sa10 again? Any improvement sound of the music?Because you mentioned that "it sounds inferior compared to playing CD/SACD directly on SA-10"
@anwar I think z1es USB output signal is not strong enough compare to pc Because in Japan sony official website,it mention 18444r USB power is stronger than 18120r, that's why the bass is less compare to pc ?
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