My new Marantz SA-15S2B SACD Player Thanks to Audio Thesis

gudnoyez

Thanks to Skip and the fine Staff at Audio Thesis, I'm the proud owner of a new Marantz SA-15S2B this thing has some heft look at the size of it compared to the CD 5003 its next two, this thing weighs more than my CD 5004 and CD 5003 combined.

tonyb

Cool man, glad your digging it.

Skip has staff ? His daughter answering phones while he's out ?

gudnoyez

Shot of the inside of the tray cool bronze tray and sturdy as heck.



There she is as she sits in the Rack my Joe Walsh So What SACD showed up today so my first two listens will be this along with Tubular Bells. I'm not sure this will even need to be compared to my Oppo 105D as of the first 30 minutes of Tubular Bells the Soundstage is overwhelming with the 2.3tls I will give them a go side by side but this Marantz Player will best it I'm pretty sure of it.

voltz

I picked up a Marantz 8005 SACD last year and have loved it...You are going to totally love the Marantz SA-15S2B the DAC in it is excellent too.

WTG Steve!

gudnoyez

Difference in Remotes this Marantz is totally **** Fellow Polkies.
Oh and the Blue lites I took off from work early and have been sucked in to the Blue light portal by way of the Side Panel Blue lights.



See the Blu Lights I think the rest of the night I will be staring at them what a difference from the CD-5004, I'm at a loss for words. I will have to come up with a good reason for canceling the Family Vacation

gudnoyez

tonyb wrote: »

Cool man, glad your digging it.

Skip has staff ? His daughter answering phones while he's out ?

Yeah I think Skip just sits back and bosses the staff around, glad I have a place to go to for all my Audio needs matter of fact plan on getting some of those Wireworld Power Cords and I/Cs to go along with my new baby all I can say is this was the icing on the cake to go along with my 2.3tls, im out got some listening to do will hook the laptop up to her in a bit probably wont get much sleep tonight.

motorhead43026

That is nice, once I get my P5 that player will be on my short list. I have always been a fan of Marantz gear. I have a couple avr's and a cd6003 player.

[Deleted User]

congrats fellow disc spinner! Really sweet.

Nightfall

DSkip wrote: »

I wish the others would follow suit, though it'd be one hell of a coattail to try and ride.

$6,000 Yamaha SACD Player



$7,000 Yamaha Integrated Amplifier

Nightfall

DSkip wrote: »

I know Yamaha has a few, but the other boys strike out a lot. I can't tell you how good that Marantz sounded though.

Do you have any plans for acquiring one of the Marantz network audio players? I bet they're great too, I kind of want one.

Nightfall

DSkip wrote: »

Not for demo. I like the SACD players because of their versatility. I can play anything someone brings to me.

Can they play 192/24 FLAC or DSD from USB? What's the point in the network players then? Good to know, if so.

vcwatkins

Congrats @gudnoyez . Looks very sweet.

Has anyone tried running a budget streaming device like SB Touch or FireTV through the DAC on this Marantz player?

gudnoyez

Well first off hooked up the 105D once again to the 2 channel, things I heard on Tubular Bells on the Marantz I heard on the 105D but only after the Marantz Brought those nuances out first, for example I never new Mike Oldfield had sinititus or some thing during the recording I could hear him gasping for breath in a few passages that were unknown to me, so after hooking the Oppo back up I had to really listen for it with the Marantz hooked back up I heard it clear as bell.

The Oppo does a find job in the HT rig playing SACDs in 5.1 and Blu Ray concerts and it's a heck of a universal player, love it to death but that's where it's staying, this Joe Walsh So What SACD sounds fantastic I doubt I will ever play the Redbook CD, or the LP again the orchestration on the last track Song For Emma brings a chill up my spine and a tear to the eye it sounds that good.

I Plan on putting a few more SACDs through it then it's off to try some well recorded red book CD'S through it that I'm very familiar with probably some Donald Fagen, Mark Knopfler, and some Steely Dan. Skip I'm so glad you recommended this player I'm in Heaven. Oh yeah wife busted me had I put the box in storage before she got home she wouldn't of never known looks like the Family vacation is still on she rolled her eye's at me and told me to put stuff away dang it all.

[Deleted User]

I heard it clear as Tubular bell.
Fixed it for ya.

vcwatkins

Looks like the optical in is up to 24/96 - not a problem for me.

afterburnt

Sweet! Now I need one of these too lol. It is cheaper than couch time!

jeremymarcinko

Congrats on the new player... Enjoy!

EndersShadow

Love Tubular Bells 2 myself. Couple of my favorite songs are on that CD

F1nut

Nice player, congrats!

Just so you know, the tray is not bronze. It's plastic with an anti resonance coating.

gudnoyez

Great 4 hours sleep gonna drag my tired rear to work cope with the lack of sleep, come home and go straight back down in the cave and listen to more tunes!!!

Erik Tracy

Very nice player! Congrats.

Skip - are you taking a look at the Pearl? Used prices on the 'gon have dropped since I got my player a couple of years ago...could be tempting.

The 15S2B and Pearl only have TosLink optical in and support 32kHz, 44.1kHz, 48kHz, 64kHz, 88.2kHz, and
96kHz (up to 24 bits).

Not sure if the current gen have USB.

erniejade

Nice unit!!! I like the looks of marantz gear also.

Mikey081057

Very Impressive... That is the SACD player of my dreams.

If you are into this genre this is an amazing SACD IMHO

http://www.amazon.com/Deep-End-Spyro-Gyra/dp/B00022FWNG

aprazer402

Very, very nice, congrats! What's next?

Nightfall

DSkip wrote: »

The new players do have USB and even do dsd.

Can you verify that they can do 192/24 FLAC and DSD over USB memory stick/hard drive or can they only do it hooked up to a computer via USB? Does this include the less expensive non reference players? SA-XXXX

voltz

I have the Marantz 8005 SACD and I tied Alac & Flac and some DSD downloads I put on a UsB drive and it just showed <Not Supported> on it,

but using JRiverMedia to play the file on my PC and sent to the 8005 via a usb cable and using a marantz window driver it plays them just fine.

I put some MP3's on the USB drive from 5150 and they played just fine.

[Deleted User]

sounds like we have a winner!
Love when that happens.

gudnoyez wrote: »

Great 4 hours sleep gonna drag my tired rear to work cope with the lack of sleep, come home and go straight back down in the cave and listen to more tunes!!!

Nightfall

voltz wrote: »

I have the Marantz 8005 SACD and I tied Alac & Flac and some DSD downloads I put on a UsB drive and it just showed <Not Supported> on it,

but using JRiverMedia to play the file on my PC and sent to the 8005 via a usb cable and using a marantz window driver it plays them just fine.

I put some MP3's on the USB drive from 5150 and they played just fine.

This was my suspicion. They only do it hooked up to a PC.

txcoastal1

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• Playing back music files stored on a USB memory device.
• Only USB memory devices conforming to mass storage class can be
played on this unit.
• This unit is compatible with USB memory devices in “FAT16” or
“FAT32” format.
• This unit can play back the following files.
• WMA (Windows Media Audio)
• MP3 (MPEG-1 Audio Layer-3)
• WAV
• AAC (Advanced Audio Codec)

footwedge

Does the USB rear input accept flac files?