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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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I use TOTL Pangea IC and power cord with a PS1000 power regenerator. I might try plugging it right into the wall dedicated line
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@blueranger ,
Very strange that you would prefer the TT to SA10. Other owners have mentioned that they can finally give up on TT. But to each his own. I agree with @elizabeth that you might need a good power source for the Marantz. I wanted to upgrade my Oppo. But got feedback that I should try a power conditioner. Then a poster who owns a SA10 and the Oppo 205 helped me decide that I should try a power conditioner first. Will it make the Oppo as good as the Marantz - hell - NEVER. But apparently a good power source can make a source sound "right". The poster also mentioned that with the SA10, he can retire his TT except for the recordings where there is no CD/SACD/digital downloads available.
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