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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.
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Does anyone remember the original Bright Star Little Rock?  I think I still have one somewhere.  The are VPI bricks more effective?
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All these different setting combinations seem to me like a cop-out on the part of the designer.  Surely the goal is to design and manufacture a machine as faithful to the original signal as possible; one presumes one setting combination comes closer to that than all the others.  Their inclusion seems like putting a parametric equalizer on a preamp.
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@riaa... etc.  Hey rhea, no trashing going on.  More of an abstract musing on how designers conceive of what they're doing and what their goals are.

Before some DACs had filters, there were those cubes that came with B&W, KEF, etc.  That always irritated me too.  If the correct sound was *with* the cube, why were the cubes optional?  If the cube exaggerated the bass, why were they available at all.  I suppose one could make an argument about different rooms acoustics, but those cubes were hardly a Lyngdorf.

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