![]() The consensus was that the SA10 was the clear winner with more realistic acoustic instrument timbres (that is to say astonishingly lifelike), slightly better musical cohesiveness (the most natural and/or realistic sounding balance when listen to live recordings of all kinds and all genres), and startlingly effortless dynamics. Both machines were feeding a Simaudio Moon 600iX integrated amp that was driving the seriously exciting Audio Vector R8 speakers (truly great speakers!). Of the players you mentioned I’ve only heard the Marantz SA10 and the Luxman D-06u in a side-by-side comparison. A rather nice setup to be sure.Ĭlick to expand.Always an excellent question! Compare, compare, compare. He’s using a Bluesound Node (latest version) strictly as a streaming transport and feeding a S/PDIF signal to the D10 in order to use the Luxman DAC subsystem. The implementation of analogue output from the D10 DAC is of the absolute top class.īoth of the D10 owners I know are dedicated CD listeners and collectors, but one of them is also streaming. I usually use an external DAC with the SA14 S1. But to my ears it doesn’t sonically rise to the level of the Luxman D10. That’s obviously a psychological assessment because the SA14 S1 (and its internal DAC) is a wonderful SACD/CD player. Remarkable machine.īy contrast, my bulky and heavy Marantz SA14 S1 seems less able, less sophisticated, and almost clumsy by comparison. ![]() When you’re using the D10, the machine removes itself from the equation and presents everything recorded on the SACD or CD with complete transparency to the source disc. IMO, the D10 is everything a $16,500 SACD/CD player has to be, and then some, to exceed expectations. Response to remote control commands is precise, and seems timed to the psychological expectations for each command press - somebody at Luxman thought about that aspect of the user experience. Music simply erupts out of a pitch black background. No matter how close you happen to be sitting to the machine, no matter how deathly still and quiet your listening room happens to be, the D10 cannot be heard in operation. In operation it is mechanical silent, and by “silent” I mean just that. The machine itself weighs like a power amp, so be careful what you wish for. The DAC implementation sounds like music - all the music ever created - better sounding than anything I’ve ever heard coming out of any SACD/CD player. It ranks with the best there is at any price. The performance of the D10 is, in a word, stellar. One guy jumped from the Audio Aero Capitole, and the other guy jumped from an older Luxman. Two of the guys in my music group have upgraded to the Luxman D10 within the past year.
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