Recent content by Steve983

If a youngster is taking interest in physical product I'd call that a win!

I have way 'too much' hi fi gear but I have fun with it. My main priority is listening to and enjoying music which I do but I can swap around amps and cd players making different systems and compare how they sound. I know which amps sound best through headphones or speakers and what seems to...

There seems to be another thing where so called 'experts' load up music into some software to look at a display of the waveform of the music track. Apparently this tells them whether it sounds 'good' or 'bad' and they will swear blind that it looks bad so it sounds bad. My experience of this is...

It's people telling me what I can or can't hear is what gets me.

No, it will only play up to 16 bit wav files and will not play flac at all.

Yes the chip factory burnt down so it seems the early CD6007's had the original chip as advertised but the later ones had a replacement.

* It would be interesting to know but those numbers seem to be kept confidential it seems. It would also be interesting to know if they do a big production run that would last them for years or if they manufacture in smaller batch runs over time. I recall that the CD6007 had a problem with its...

That's what I was thinking. How many more improvements can they make and how cost effective would they be? I suppose that hi fi companies like to refresh their products regularly otherwise they look old and outdated? Also, if stock is running low I suppose you may as well make some changes...

I've not had a Marantz amp yet but had the CD6004 for years until I changed it for a CD6007 last year because of its hi res capability, it might sound a teeny bit better.

I looked up the release dates of the last few iterations, according to Mr Google: PM/CD6004 Aug 2011 PM/CD 6005 Sept 2013 PM/CD 6006 May 2016 PM/CD 6007 Aug 2020 So at least timewise due for a change although I'm sure many other factors may influence this.

I wonder if its time for the PM6007 & CD6007 to become the 6008 sometime soon?

I'd say it's a little unclear but never mind, it starts a conversation which may wander off at tangents of course.

Well yes, as I said before £5k would be a whole new system for me and most people I would have thought.

Here we are, something like this https://www.richersounds.com/marantz-pm6007-dali-oberon-5-light-oak/ Plus a Marantz CD60 would be probably do me fine :)

Agreed. For me if I was able to move to a detached property then it might be worth investing in a new higher quality/more expensive system with some bigger speakers. I'd probably start with a good amp and floor standing speaker pairing and a matching cd player- one of the best Marantz ones I...