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In Reply to: RE: Rega Saturn Owners: How Has Sound Changed Over Breaking In Period? posted by Realitytunnel on April 20, 2012 at 01:45:01
Even with a two-year old unit, the Saturn will change. If it has been left off for any significant period of time, it needs to resettle in when turned back on. It has three power supplies and each work in at a different rate. After turning the unit on, it went from really good to good to not so good to very Iood to really good, and sometimes going back until it settled in. The body of the sound will definitely fill in. I promise. Thin body is not an issue any more. It took literally hundreds of hours of not just being on, but playing to get it there, and the sound quality would go up and down before it got there.
Have LOTS of patience with this one. It may or may not ultimately be better than the modded TEAC, but it will be better than it is now.
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OK, that's good to know! I'll persevere... ;)
According to the dealer, the more the power supplies, the longer the break-in. I had an Audiomat DAC that took almost 700 hours to break in.
:-o jeepers, I only have it on approval for two weeks!
What was the expensive digital system you had before, btw? I've always had a soft-spot for Meridian kit, but haven't heard the newer stuff, and I find it's overpriced now they've lost their more 'budget' CD players- if you could ever call them that!
:-)
Hi,
I just finished the audition period. I ended up sending the Saturn back, unfortunately. It was a close call as the Saturn definitely does many things right, but it just lacked a natural sense of dynamics, a bit of 'slam' and 'attack', not in a forward way, but just in a way which is there in live music?
The Saturn is a lovely player, and I mean that in all respects, it's refined and sweet sounding, but real live music isn't always like that, and nor was the player I'm used to, so it just didn't send shivers down my spine at the right moments. I felt it was always holding something back and needed to just let it's hair down!
That's all highly subjective of course, and is only in my system, so must be taken as such. It also sounds over critical, whereas, as I say, it was doing most things right, and had the most unforced detail and transparency I've ever heard from any digital source, so wonderful in many ways, just not quite right for my tastes.
I'm going to try a TeddyDAC, which I keep hearing good things about, and probably a Rega DAC, maybe with an Apollo as a transport (I get the feeling it might be the output stage which lets the Saturn down a bit, I think the disc-reading/data retrieval is probably nigh-on perfect, so might be very very good as a transport...
Cheers,
James
Did I reply to this yet? I don't remember.
In case I didn't, I had a CEC TL51X transport and Audiomat Tempo DAC.
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