In Reply to: Anyone actually heard the Marantz SA 10? RIQUE said he has one, but posted by oldmkvi on March 3, 2017 at 10:54:03:
Yes, as reported here on another thread. I have one it is installed and is up and running. So far it has about 8 hrs listening on the clock. It is way too early to make wild statements about it's SQ.
What I will say is that it is an incredibly well engineered machine and is extremely well packed and presented. The box contains a personal letter from Ken Ishiwata, a pair of white silk gloves and an invitation to join an exclusive '10' club. The machine appears to use a similar chassis to the SA11-S3 rather than the SA7-S1 but is about the same weight as the SA7-S1 - bloody heavy!
In operation the drawer mechanism is slow in operation but very quiet and it does not "slam" shut like the SA7-S1's which was also an in-house purpose built design. Marantz for some reason have reverted to the balanced output configuration of Pin 1 And, Pin 2 Hot (+), Pin 3 Cold (-). The SA7-S1 had the Pin 2 / Pin 3 configuration the other way around which has caused a problem for me as the interconnects for the link to the pre-amp were specially modified for me by Cardas so now I have to send those cables over to the US again to have them reversed once more. Meanwhile I have been forced to start my listening with absolute phase reversed which is not good.
The things that strike you immediately are;
- Huge soundstage width and depth
-Very high resolving power at even low levels of listening. Inner detail unravelling is excellent even in dense passages
- Extremely low noise floor - it is silent in playback from disc
- Very accurate instrumental timbres, excelling at piano, string and timpani but great on all including organ which had our house shaking!
- Transient attack is guillotine like
Insofar as it is far too early to describe the character of the music produced, I am a little puzzled by a physiological instinct that it seems to play music 'slowly' which I haven't got my head around just yet.
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Follow Ups
- RE: Anyone actually heard the Marantz SA 10? RIQUE said he has one, but - hiredfox 02:23:32 03/05/17 (19)
- Ok great! I missed the original post- - oldmkvi 10:06:57 03/05/17 (0)
- RE: Anyone actually heard the Marantz SA 10? RIQUE said he has one, but - RSF 07:08:08 03/05/17 (17)
- RE: Anyone actually heard the Marantz SA 10? RIQUE said he has one, but - hiredfox 08:51:51 03/05/17 (16)
- Marantz SA 10 user Manual here- - oldmkvi 10:11:23 03/06/17 (1)
- RE: Marantz SA 10 user Manual here- - fantja 06:22:00 04/20/17 (0)
- RE: Anyone actually heard the Marantz SA 10? RIQUE said he has one, but - airheadair 19:38:50 03/05/17 (13)
- RE: Anyone actually heard the Marantz SA 10? RIQUE said he has one, but - airheadair 19:41:17 03/05/17 (12)
- RE: Anyone actually heard the Marantz SA 10? RIQUE said he has one, but - RSF 06:44:00 03/06/17 (11)
- Yeah, no way Marantz is gonna let a bunch of Brits mess with phase... - Ivan303 20:33:39 03/06/17 (10)
- RE: Yeah, no way Marantz is gonna let a bunch of Brits mess with phase... - fantja 21:32:09 07/01/17 (3)
- RE: Yeah, no way Marantz is gonna let a bunch of Brits mess with phase... - Disbeliever 23:30:18 07/01/17 (2)
- RE: Yeah, no way Marantz is gonna let a bunch of Brits mess with phase... - fantja 02:23:58 07/10/17 (0)
- RE: Yeah, no way Marantz is gonna let a bunch of Brits mess with phase... - fantja 18:25:46 07/07/17 (0)
- RE: Yeah, no way Marantz is gonna let a bunch of Brits mess with phase... - fantja 16:31:26 05/16/17 (0)
- RE: Yeah, no way Marantz is gonna let a bunch of Brits mess with phase... - fantja 06:18:47 04/11/17 (0)
- RE: Yeah, no way Marantz is gonna let a bunch of Brits mess with phase... - fantja 22:52:47 04/02/17 (0)
- RE: Yeah, no way Marantz is gonna let a bunch of Brits mess with phase... - fantja 22:18:35 03/26/17 (0)
- RE: Yeah, no way Marantz is gonna let a bunch of Brits mess with phase... - fantja 17:36:45 03/23/17 (0)
- RE: Yeah, no way Marantz is gonna let a bunch of Brits mess with phase... - fantja 01:35:03 03/13/17 (0)