I second that opinion. The Laser pick up's are not that expensive to replace if still available. I used Superscope (Marantz repair center near Chicago) Might be less the $250 total. Worth going to Marantz site to see where your nearest repair center is and call them re availability. The Marantz Sa 11s1 and 2's are great spinners - you will need to spend a lot more than the repair cost to replace their quality.
Marantz SA-11S1 SACD player not reading hybrid SACDs
I have had one of these units for several years. It loads regular CDs fine, but will read only about 50% of the hybrid SACDs I have tried to load into it. It will try to load for about 30 seconds, then the display says "can't read". It seems to especially dislike trying to read RR and BIS hybrid SACDs for some reason. Has anyone else encountered this problem with this unit or guess what the problem might be? What is interesting is that I recently acquired a Marantz DV-9600 DVD/SACD player. It appears to have a similar loading mechanism as the 11S1. So far it has loaded every disc that the 11S1 has failed to do, and sonically I find it similar to the 11S1.
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