Rediscover Your Music
Featuring astonishing SACD, CD and DSD playback, the SA-10 player delivers a truly upscale listening experience.
The SA-10 is designed to set a new standard in audio. Whether listening to music on disc or content streamed from a computer, enjoy your collection in refined clarity.
Key Features
- Hear all your music: From SACDs to DSD files, enjoy all of your music without limits.
- Pure Marantz sound: HDAM technology combined with optimized circuit design layout and carefully selected components, provides exceptional sound quality and performance.
- Sound Master tuned: Engineered and extensively tuned by a team drawing on more than 35 years of Marantz CD and SACD design knowledge.
- Upscale listening: Innovative Marantz Musical Mastering “MMM-Stream” up-sampling to DSD and filtering.
It Starts with the Disc
Whether playing SACDs, CDs, or other data discs containing music, it's vital that any player retrieves the information as accurately as possible: unlike a computer reading a disc for ripping, there's no time for repeated re-scans when playing music - it happens in real time, so the disc transport needs to get things right first time.
CDs, SACDs and Beyond
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 your music files up to 192kHz/24bit.
More Than Just a DAC
The SA-10 takes things further - just as it features an all-new disc transport mechanism, so the digital to analogue conversion has also been subject to a radical rethink, taking full advantage of the 1-bit conversion technology found in past flagship Marantz players, and incorporating brand-new filtering and up-conversion to take advantage of this simple, but elegant solution. We name it Marantz Musical Mastering.
Marantz Musical Mastering
DSD is at the heart of the way the SA-10 handles digital audio: PCM and DXD inputs are all upconverted to DSD at 11.2MHz using the proprietary MMM-Stream converter within the player, and then the high-frequency signal produced is processed by the unique MMM-Conversion stage, used in place of a conventional DAC, to produce the analogue output.
Built For Generations
Like its partnering, the PM-10 integrated amplifier, the SA-10 is constructed to the highest possible standards, with a double-layered copper-plated chassis for excellent rejection of mechanical and electrical interference, and casework constructed from thick non-magnetic aluminium panels and 5mm thick top lid. Both products also sit on aluminium machining feet for reduced vibration and allows for a smoother listening experience.
Features | |
CD Compatibility: CD / CD-R/RW / SA-CD / WMA / MP3 / AAC | Yes / Yes / Yes / Yes / Yes / Yes |
CD-Text / SA-CD Text / ID3 Tag / WMA Meta Tag / AAC Meta Data | - / Yes / Yes / Yes / Yes |
Data Disc Compatibility: DSD / WAV / ALAC | <=5.6 / 192 / 96 |
iPod / iPhone Compatible USB Input | Yes / Yes |
DAC Operation Mode: USB / Coax / Optical | Yes / Yes / Yes |
Asynchronous Mode Rear USB | Yes |
Bit-Perfect Transmission | Yes |
Signal Isolator for DAC Mode Operation | Yes |
HDAM Version | HDAM+HDAM SA2 |
Power Transformer: Toroidal / El | Yes / - |
High Grade Audio Components | Yes |
Customised Components | Yes |
Symmetric Circuit Layout | Yes |
Copper Plated Chassis | Yes |
Extra Metal Plate for Chassis Strengthing | Yes |
Digital Out Off / Audio EX Mode | Yes / - |
Headphone: Standard / Buffer / Current feedback | - / Yes (HDAM SA2+HDAM) / Yes |
Others | |
Separated Rectifier Circuit for Analogue and Digital Circuitry | Yes |
Display: Dimmer / Off | - / Yes |
Low Noise LCD Display | Yes |
5 mm Aluminium Top Cover | Yes |
Selectable Filter: CD / SA-CD / DAC-Mode | Yes / - / Yes |
Marantz Musical Mastering | Yes (HD) |
Marantz Musical Mastering Stream | Yes |
Marantz Musical Mastering Conversion | Yes |
Playback | |
Program Play (CD / SA-CD) | Yes / Yes |
Repeat | Yes |
Random Play | Yes |
Start Sound Mode for SA-CD | Yes |
Inputs / Outputs | |
Analogue Out (Cinch) | 2 Ch |
Balanced Out | Yes |
Digital Optical In / Out | Yes / Yes |
Digital Coaxial In / Out | Yes / Yes |
Sample Rate Digital In | 192 kHz / 24-Bit |
Gold Plated Cinch | Silver / Nickel |
USB Audio (Front) / Made for iPod / Made for iPhone® | Rear / Yes / Yes |
USB Type B input for PC (Rear) | Yes |
Sample Rate USB Type B In | 384 kHz / 32-Bit |
Asynchronous Mode Rear USB | Yes |
USB-B DSD Audio Streaming (DoP): DSD2.8 / DSD5.6 | -> DSD11.2 |
Headphone Out | Yes |
Headphone Volume Control | Yes |
Specifications | |
Mechanism | SACD-M3 (Metal) |
D/A Conversion | Marantz Musical Mastering Conversion |
DAC IC | Marantz Musical Mastering Conversion |
Digital Filter | DSP (Marantz) |
Low Pass Filter Stage | HDAM x 2 |
Output Buffer | HDAM SA2 |
Frequency Response (Cust.) | 2 Hz - 60 kHz |
Dynamic Range (SA) | 109 dB |
Signal to Noise Ratio (SA) | 112 dB |
Channel Separation (SA) | 105 dB |
Frequency Response | 2 Hz - 20 kHz |
Dynamic Range | 98 dB |
Signal to Noise Ratio | 104 dB |
Total Harmonic Distortion | 0.00% |
Channel Separation | 100 dB |
Total Harmonic Distortion (SA) | 0.00% |
General | |
Available Colors | Black / Silver-Gold |
Metal Front Panel | Yes |
Remote Control | RC004PMSA |
Power Consumption | 50 W |
Standby Consumption | 0.3 W |
Auto Power off | Yes |
Detachable Power Cable | Yes |
Maximum Dimensions (W x D x H) | 440 x 419 x 127 mm |
Weight | 18.4 kg |
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