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A little over a week ago, I spotted nice looking Marantz faceplate on the shelf of my local Good Will. I turned out to be a DV6600. I did not know anything about this player, but I read on the faceplate that it played SACD disks. I figured for $15, what did I have to loose, so it came home with me.
When I looked it up on the web, I found that it was a universal player and originally sold for $600 (actually $500 street price) and came out in 2006. It did get some good reviews, but there was not a lot of information on it.
We had no power last weekend, so I could not play it then, but this weekend, everything was ready. I played some Redbook and it sounded quite good. It was smooth and detailed with very good imaging. Then I popped in my SACD of the Rolling Stones, "Beggar's Banquet". I did not get very far into "Sympathy for the Devil" before I realized that this SACD sounded great! I really liked it on Redbook, but this was a whole new ballgame!
I guess I am very late to the party, but I will try to find some more SACDs. I also have "Get yer Ya –Ya’s Out" and "Her Majesty’s Satanic Service". I wish I had bought more of those Stones' SACDs when I had the chance!
Does anyone know anything about the DV6600?
Dave
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I don't recall reading anything about that model number, but Marantz (SA-1) and Sony (SCD-1 & 777) were at the forefront in bringing out SACD players. There's gotta be some trickle-down technology in your moderately priced unit.Chris
Edits: 07/11/12
A little disturbing though, better hope the animal rights people don't get after you.....................you might want to add a tag that no cows were either coerced or harmed.
I suspect at $600, a lot of people jumped to the $1K range when they considered it. It looks good but is very lightweight.
Wouldn't it be nice to find an SA-1 in a thrift store for $15! I am not going to hold my breath. I am getting a very good sound on both Redbook and SACD. I am sure there is better, but I can live happily with this. I will have to track down some more SCAD disks. Do you know of a good place to buy them?
Dave
MusicDirect, AccousticSounds, Ebay, Amazon, I guess?
I haven't bought a SACD in almost 10 years, so I'll let others chime in on more current vendors.
Good luck, Chris
Hi Chris,
I played the Rolling Stones Flowers last night with equally breathtaking results. I wish I had bought all of the Stones' SACDs. I am sure I will be able to track down something interesting to play on this.
Dave
and I have a few of the older ones that aren't terrible, but the SACDs are noticeably cleaner sounding.
If you're into the 60s rock/blues/folk scene, my sisters got me Bob Dylan's box set of 14 albums/15 discs which while not my cup of tea, sound really nice. You see a lot of these discs for sale, for cheap, if you don't want to splurge on the entire package.
You might follow Ebay for a while and see if you can cherry pick some deals down the road.
Get a list in order, or just buy what you see, which is what most of us here did in the very beginning, just buy what was out there and looked interesting.
Most were hits, some were misses, like Billy Holliday, the Miles Davis Christmas Eve recording in NYC and even the Janis Joplin number.
I stopped at about ~177 discs, which I still have today.
Ted Smith, one of the mods here and early adpoters, I think had close to every title printed--4,500+ at last count!
Chris
It sounds like I am going to have to kul some of the record collection to make room. That will make my wife happy! I think I will stop short of the 4K mark, but it would be nice to have some good music that sounds this good. I do like Dylan and will check out his box set. I suspect some of the more obscure 60's and 70's stuff I like did not make it to SCAD. I'll bet that there is a lot of good classical and Jazz.
Dave
I don't recommend eBay but you can definitely put together a good SACD collection for cheap if you look around and don't mind buying a used copy. This Dylan title is a great place to start for under $8.
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We must be the change we wish to see in the world. -Gandhi
That is a good price and Blood on the Tracks is one of my favorite Dylan albums. I was surprised to see that there were even some good prices at Music Direct. Some classical SACDs were under $10. This is why I prefer to adopt technologies when they are obsolete!
Dave
I wish I had your patience. Of course if it wasn't for early adopters like us, you'd have even slimmer pickings than you find now.
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We must be the change we wish to see in the world. -Gandhi
You have a point there. Thanks! My income and the fact that I am supporting 3 generations (wife, daughter, son-in-law, grandson) in my house also keeps me from bing a early adoptor.
Dave
My daughter is not even six months old but the thought of supporting her future husband and child all in my tiny house definitely put the fear in me.
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We must be the change we wish to see in the world. -Gandhi
Be afraid! Be very afraid!
Dave
(Actually, it's not all that bad. I get to see my grandson a lot!)
although, I bet I could sell my ~177 discs right now, all of them used and some of them hit with Auric Illuminator, for more than I paid for them, easily.
I have more than a few of boutique titles, no doubt, but I'll 'never' sell my software. I'd sell all of my stereo crap before I'd let my records, CDs, DVD~As and SACDs go.
Chris
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