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Marantz SA-10 arriving Monday!

I've been hearing and reading all I can about this player during this last year. I have a 6005 right now and it's a nice player but not as good as my analog rig (10k) so it's not a fair comparison. Elizabeth mentioned that her SA-10 is better than her analog. I will be comparing the 2 SACD players side by side. I have at least 3 CD's in which I have duplicates. I'm fascinated about how the circuitry upsamples to DSD SACD. Well not exactly but somehow an improvement over Redbook CD. I have a 2" thick maple block coming in the same day for it. It's going to be a long weekend. I know it can't work miracles on all CD's. If there is jitter in the recording then supposedly you will never get that out. Speak up if I'm wrong about that.
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glupson
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jafant,

Bob Dylan Blonde On Blonde single layer SACD (one of those first ones released in 1990s) and hybrid from the box (early 2000s) do sound a little different but I am not sure if one is that much better than the other one. It may be that they are mastered differently, though but I do not know details.
glupson
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jafant,

"...if you have a title on SL and Hybrid test for any discernible difference(s)?"
Roger Waters The Wall Live In Berlin sounds exactly the same to me on single layer vs. hybrid SACD. Someone may say it may be different with better equipment and different listener but those SACDs are surely not strikingly different.
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