Marantz SA10S1 Flagship SACD Player

Features

All-new SACD-M3 transport mechanism for CD, Super Audio CD and more

Playback of high-resolution audio compilations on DVD-ROM

USB input for hi-res audio up to PCM / DXD 384kHz/32bit and DSD11.2MHz

Isolation of USB and digital inputs to remove noise from connected sources

Innovative upsampling to DSD and filtering using unique Marantz Musical Mastering – Stream technology

All-new custom-designed 1-bit direct Marantz Musical Mastering -Conversion from DSD to analogue

High-quality analogue output stage with Marantz HDAMs

Generous power supply using toroidal transformer

Dedicated headphone amplifier with all-discrete construction

4 Year Warranty

Many modern CD and SACD players use computer-style DVD or ‘universal’ disc drives, simply because it’s increasingly difficult for manufacturers to source dedicated ‘music drives’, purely designed for SACD/CD playback.

The Marantz solution? If you can’t buy it off the shelf, design it and have it made: at the heart of the SA10s1 is an all-new SACD-M3 transport mechanism, engineered solely for the best possible performance when playing SA-CDs, CDs and music stored on data discs.

Not only does this new mechanism promise the very best sound quality from conventional CD and SA-CD discs, its extended ability with the playback of music files stored on DVD-ROM discs makes it possible for users to create their own high-resolution audio compilation discs using a computer DVD burner. The SA-10 can play FLAC files from 32kHz to 192kHz at up to 24-bit resolution, and DSD64 and DSD128, well as ALAC (Apple Lossless), AIFF and MP3 files. That means making and playing hi-res disc compilations is now just as simple as it’s always been to make such discs in CD quality.

However, the SA-10 goes so much further than just disc playback: it’s also a fully-functional digital-to-analogue converter for music stored on a home computer, as well as having conventional digital inputs for existing source components.

Those conventional inputs – optical and coaxial – can handle files at up to 192kHz/24bit, but in addition the player’s digital input section includes a USB-B asynchronous input for the direct connection of a computer, and this is compatible with PCM and DXD music files at up to 384kHz/32bit, as well as DSD64, DSD128 and DSD256.

That means the SA10s1 is not only equipped to handle all the commonly-available high-resolution audio formats now sold by online retailers, but also the ultra-high-resolution files becoming available from a number of specialist labels and outlets. In other words, the new player is entirely future-proof.

What’s more, the digital input section is completely isolated, to avoid any electrical noise from connected components – a particular problem when computers are used as a source – from finding its way into the signal-path.