Probably one the best SACD players we ever heard in our shop. Marantz went all in for the KI PEARL edition of products to celebrate the 30th anniversary. Star designer Ken Ishiwater got to engineer these units which are sold as a limited edition.
This particular unit is in absolute mint condition with approximately 10 hours of use. It only left once the box at his former owners place to then being stored. It included the beautiful aluminium made original remote, owners manual and the power cable.
We provide 6 months warranty for this unit.
Description
Marantz’s SA-KI-Pearl SACD player (USD$2999.99) starts with a carefully constructed, well-damped chassis made using a large, specially constructed copper-plating bath, to produce a constant thickness of plating said to result in reduced ground impedances and eddy currents—which, theoretically, means less noise.
The chassis is braced with an additional heavy bottom plate and topped with a 5mm-thick aluminum cover. Copper encases and shields a newly designed toroidal transformer, and the 32-lb Pearl sits on specially machined aluminum feet. “You’d be shocked by how much those mechanical differences can contribute to better sound!” Ken Ishiwata told me. Actually, I wouldn’t.
Hand-selected components enhance Marantz’s HDAM-SA2 and HDAM-SA amplifier modules. The power supply uses high-speed Schottky diodes and the same storage capacitor as in Marantz’s flagship SACD player. The DAC is Cirrus Logic’s CS4398, a 24-bit/192kHz device that also includes a DSD processor that doesn’t decimate the datastream, while maintaining DSD’s native sampling rate of 2.8224MHz. Marantz’s new SACDM-10 disc transport features a loading tray made of Xyron, an ultrarigid, microvibration-isolating polymer.
More information :https://www.stereophile.com/hirezplayers/marantz_reference_sa-ki-pearl_sacdcd_player/index.html
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