Marantz SA-11


I am considering the purchase of a Marantz SA-11 SACD/CD player but have read that the transport can be noisy with SACDs. Does anyone have any info on this?

Bob R.
rmrobinson1957

Showing 2 responses by jygesq

There is no comparison.SA11 is just amazing on cds.Everything is better. Never mind the SACD playback which is a league of its own. I had both a RoTel player and a Rega Apollo, neither sound much better than the 63SE. Are you sure you are not hearing any transport noise on sacd playback?
I'm on my second one, you can hear the transport in sacd mode
when music is very low or between tracks. Transport noise diminishes as you go further into disk. When you first insert and sa 11 read toc in sacd thew transport spins very fast, that the noise I'm hearing. This is my second unit.Three other
posters have had same observation.