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| Furman Reference IT 15i power conditioner HI Elizabeth,When you replaced the outlets in your Furman Ref20, did you add safety capacitors for line filtering to the GTX outlets (to match the original Furman built)? Thank you! | |
| Marantz SA 10 compared to I did not have the Oppo 205, but I had a Benchmark DAC3, which uses a ES9028PRO converter chip, for a few weeks before purchasing the Marantz player. The SA10 is way better than the DAC3 (when using DAC3 with a Sony 5400ES as transport). I could n... | |
| Do IC and Power Cables Really Make a Difference? I actually agree with you, Elizabeth. I would not spend 50% of the cost of electronics on power cables either, but 10-20% seems reasonable given the benefits. For my system, the cost is about 10-12%; Pangea would be more like 1% (and I still tried... | |
| Do IC and Power Cables Really Make a Difference? Absolutely, that is my experience (and that of quite a few other Audiogon members - just do a search). The problem with your advice to other people is that you have not compared Pangea with good power cables. I built too several cords with cables ... | |
| Do IC and Power Cables Really Make a Difference? While I agree that it makes little sense to buy power cables that cost more than the electronics, good power cords can make a substantial difference in a good system. Based on my experience and that of several other folks on Audiogon, I advise y... | |
| Marantz SA-10 arriving Monday! Elizabeth, I mistyped something in my previous message. I meant to say "is that the unit" rather than "if that the unit". I am just trying to clarify the meaning of those Marantz settings.Clearthink, can you enlighten us with an explanation for bi... | |
| Marantz SA-10 arriving Monday! Elizabeth, take a look at page 8, bottom of the middle section. They use the word "phase" for polarity. However, all you need to know if that the unit comes wired with pin 2 hot (+) and pin 3 cold (-), as I posted in my previous message. I do not ... | |
| Marantz SA-10 arriving Monday! You are saying that a discrete encoding using 16-bit resolution at 44KHz sampling rate of continuous signals from 0 to 20KHz is not lossless? You get quantization errors + you are guaranteed not to be able to recover perfectly the high frequencies... | |
| Marantz SA-10 arriving Monday! I believe the point of the settings is that the PCM format is not lossless, and Marantz provides the option to play with different settings because there is no agreed way to reconstruct the original acoustic signal. None of those settings work for... | |
| Marantz SA-10 arriving Monday! I do not see any new firmware for SA-10 on the Marantz website. Could you please elaborate on the firmware?I got to play a little bit with the sound settings. (I can confirm that they only work on CD/PCM signal and not on SACD/DSD signal.) Some fi... | |
| Marantz SA-10 arriving Monday! I am baffled by what d2girls said too. Could you please clarify?It would have made some sense if the statement were that it uses a new disc transport just developed by Marantz and there may be some issue or at least lack of data with that; thus, i... | |
| Marantz SA-10 arriving Monday! With the Oyaide frame (bought on eBay from Japan and possibly fake) out, most of the brightness is gone. Jacintha's Moon River and Here's To Life became enjoyable again, for example. However, I hope the SA10 still needs break-in because her voice ... | |
| Marantz SA-10 arriving Monday! Thank you, Elizabeth and Blueranger! I know exactly what you are talking about. However, in my system, the only two new changes are the SA10 replacing the XA5400ES and the addition of an aluminum/carbon outlet frame on the main outlet. I installed... | |
| Marantz SA-10 arriving Monday! Thank you for the fast reply! I thought the filters only work for CDs and not for SACDs. I am using a Wolff Carbon PC, so that should not be the issue. However, one other change that I made with the arrival of the SA10 is that I installed an Oyaid... | |
| Marantz SA-10 arriving Monday! I got a Marantz SA10 last week, and I only have about 50 hours on it. While it is better in most respects than the Sony XA5400ES and XA9000ES that I also own, it exhibits a brightness that is quite annoying. Many female voices present a brightness... |