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In Reply to: RE: New DAC and CD Player search posted by airheadair on June 17, 2016 at 23:38:28
I can't answer you questions, but I can give you a couple of tidbits.
1) You've only had the player for 3 days. Don't make any decisions yet. My Marantz needed to burn in for a while. It takes a while to sound at its best. You need to run a CD continuously for about a week or so. It will sound noticeably better. Then run a SACD for a while too.
2) my Marantz responded very well to after market power cords and vibration control. It took a little bit of patience and tweaking to get it to sound it's best.
HTH,
Jack
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What did you end up using for vibration control?
I have it on a Symposium Platform, and 2 (stacked) Herbie's Supersonic Stabilizers right over the drawer mechanism. It makes a noticeable difference.
Jack
Based on a rather careful review of this Marantz, I tried out a Millennium carbon fiber CD mat.
(There are several other positive reviews of this mat out there.) But on several occasions, the mat didn't stay firmly on top of the CD, and caused a horrible grinding noise. I'm going to stop using this, without trying to evaluate any possible sonic benefits.
I'm not so interested in tweaks that cause tiny differences in sound stage depth, etc. I really only care about major effects on musicality.
Yea, they have very shallow drawers. The vibe control was not a big difference, but the power cord change was- cleaner treble, tighter bass, more neutral tonal balance, better transparency.
JackEdit: the sonic stabilizers went on top of the unit, not on in the drawer.
Edits: 06/19/16 06/19/16
After being a vinyl addict for 40+ years I started trying cds. Not to bore you with all the units I tried, but then, by chance, I found one that is perilously close to my Nottingham 294 w/Ortofon Cadenza Black - an Ayon 07s. Fits right in with my tubed pre amp and tubed amps . This thing has ended my years long search after listening to numbers of cd players.
I think that uses the PCM1796 from Burr Brown. Part multibit, part bitstream. They're supposed to be quite good, and are used in the DDDAC NOS project.
Still like my 1704Ks though.
Big J
"... only a very few individuals understand as yet that personal salvation is a contradiction in terms."
Not sure exactly what you are referring to when you write:
I think that uses the PCM1796 from Burr Brown. Part multibit, part bitstream. They're supposed to be quite good, and are used in the DDDAC NOS project.
Still like my 1704Ks though.
(I'm often clueless with regard to abbreviations, acronyms, etc.).
But I do know that the Marantz SA14S1 and the SA11S3 use the Burr-Brown 1792A.
I don't know how that would compare to the 1796.
pretty sure the 1792A is Burr Brown's top of the line, 1796 second (unless fairly recently replaced, I don't follow it that closely).
By the time you get to this level, the difference between chips matters less than circuitry around it; power supplies and output stages.
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