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RE: A waste of money...

Let me ask a question that really belongs in the high-rez forum (where the discussion has died out) but is related to the current discussion. How about megabucks for digital sources? People will spend huge sums for complicated multi-box setups. Is this sensible?

For a more focussed discussion, relevant to me personally, what about the Marantz SA10, a CD/SACD/DAC that is selling for about $7,000. It does seem to have quite a bit of engineering and some fancy construction. It also has a unique DAC (not really a DAC at all, according to some.)
But will it really sound that much better than, say the Marantz SA14? The SA10 uses a similar
system to the PS Audio Direct Stream, I think, but the latter requires two boxes and will cost even more.

This is of some (maybe academic) interest to me because I bought an SA14 a year or so ago.
SACD's sound very good indeed, but CD's, although pleasant are still pretty boring compared to my vinyl system, by and large (not always, depends on the discs). I think somewhat wistfully of the SA10....



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