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And they're always learning how to measure better, and are figuring out how what they hear relates to what they measure. Measurements are nice, too, but I don't listen to measurements. You hear what you want to sometimes, and other times you hear what the advertising revenues tell you to hear. The problem is that the mind is a funny thing. Until then, I will marvel at the income level needed for such toys.Īs far as 'objective testing' goes, there I cannot agree with you. When I become a millionaire, I will consider buying Halcro amps, a Rockport turntable, the Verdi/Purcell/Elgar digital front end, etc. Now, thirty years later, I simply cannot imagine the kind of income needed to consider buying a turntable for $78,000, a phono pre-preamp for $28,000, cables for $5,000, etc. I used to read those magazines when I was a college student in the 70s with no money and when one might actually own some of the stuff that was reviewed. I am also letting my subscription to Stereophile lapse, for much the same reasons. For a brief while they flirted with reviewing things that did not mean a second mortgage for most people, but then they reverted to type.

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I had a trial subscription to the Absolute Sound that I am not renewing. I am not endorsing the magazine or the review - I'm just passing on what they said. I can't scan it until next week, and anyway to do so would be a violation of their copyright. who is Taffel and since AS uses no real testing, why should I trust this guys ears, instead of believing the objective audio testing done in other Mags? JML: Can you post the review for us all to read? Or, did you actually pay $10 for a review from someone named Taffel? If Harley or the great one did this 'ear only' review, I might have more confidence in it. Well I popped the covers of both the Marantz palyers I had and the DACs are the same.I don't have the Marantz SA-14 in front of me but again,I assert that based on an actual inspection and not something that I have read anywhere,the DACS are the same. For the record, I think Marantz units sound better than equivalent Sony SACD players on both SACD and redbook. The one thing I won't argue with is his opinion of Marantz SACD players, not because I agree, but because these things are highly subjective. While it's true that Philips and Sony were the co-developers of SACD, Marantz was owned by Philips at the time in fact, Marantz *designed* Philips' flagship SACD/DVD-video player, the SACD1000 this machine is nearly identical to the SA8260 from an audio standpoint, with the same DAC (again, a CS4397, not anything by Sony), Marantz's proprietary HDAM discreet output stage and the same transport mechanism.īy the way, the original SA14 used a Philips DAC7 (TDA1547) for redbook. He does not own the second-generation Marantz SA14S2, which was only released in Asia. The Marantz DV8300 uses the CS4392 DAC, a lower-cost unit than the CS4397 it's also an all-rounder. The Marantz SA8260 uses the Cirrus Logic CS4397 DAC for BOTH redbook and SACD (it's an all-rounder) Sony uses its own DAC in all Sony SACD players. A number of Tuberoller's assertions are ill-informed: