Masrantz Sa-11S1 /w RAM Full upgrade?

I would say No. The Marantz SA-11 s.1 is a $3K machine for starters. More like $2300 street price if you shop it.
Why would you spend almost double for the SA-11 s.1 when it could never reach the pinnacle of the Marantz SA-1 or Esoteric X-01 Limited Edition players.

Still up to this day the best SACD/CD player is a stock Marantz SA-1 player. Be sure to use a good power cable and run in balance XLR for maximum results. The Marantz SA-1 was a $7500 player to begin with and sets the standard for playback production.

Currently the Top sounding SACD/CD players are the:
Marantz SA-1
Esoteric X-01 Limited Edition.

Too early to say which one is better yet. Because we recently started listening and comparing the new
Esoteric X-01 Limited Edition player. We know for sure that the stock Esoteric X-01 player sounded outdated when compared with the LE version. And the Marantz SA-1 still has it's special place on top . But again it's very critical to have a great power cable and XLR balanced cables with the Marantz SA-1.

Everything else is a distance behind. Do yourself a favor and try to find a stock Marantz SA-1 before they all end up in Asia.

To answer the initial quesstion again . I would say NO.

Baranyi I ended up with a BMI Piranha 24K power cable.

Flye
We've done so much comparing over the past year. I am part of a large Audio Society up in Boston. That the conclusion is a Marantz SA-1 can never be matched by a Marantz SA-11 regardless of the secondary mods.

It's almost like saying your modified Chevrolet Camaro is going to be better than my Austin Martin V12 Vanquish -which I do own too. The Camaro is cut from a lower cloth to begin with.

Not taking anything from a Marantz SA-11 or the mod. but the SA-1 is in a much higher league of performance.

Again there is a reason why Marantz SA-1 was $7500 and very limited and not discounted. Verse the Marantz SA-11 $3500 and highly distributed and discounted to street price to about $2250 average. Marantz wanted to make there statement when introducing the SA-1 since Philips their parent company did C0-invent the technology with Sony. More or less the Marantz SA-1 was released to put the Sony SCD-1 to shame. If you looked insided a Sony SCD-1 there is nothing really special about it. Verse the Marantz SA-1 is like a work of art and best of the best in parts.