Recent content by Steve983

It's all so subjective but no this Marantz doesn't seem to need any help at all. And yet about 15 years ago I changed my Arcam Alpha 7 cd player for a Marantz CD6004 and was amazed at the leap in sound quality. The Arcam's sound had become dull to me and the Marantz sounded fantastic by...

Anyone else interested in watching these kinds of videos? I'm not an electronics engineer myself but find it quite fascinating to see them at work. This is a severe case of destruction to a Denon cd player!

Well my Marantz CD63SE arrived yesterday by surprise next day delivery....and very pleased. I thought I might be taking a bit of a risk with the age of this unit (from approx. 1995) but the E Bay seller has very good feedback with lots of other serviced quality gear for sale so I decided to take...

I couldn't help it, I gave in to temptation and just ordered a Marantz-CD63SE that's been serviced with new belts for £140 on E Bay!

All my 80's NAD gear is going great. Of course it has been fully recapped and serviced. I guess its down to whether people think its worthwhile to repair stuff. There seems to be more of a trend to sell for repairs or spares on E Bay and for those with the knowhow to repair, service and sell on...

They are great machines, the Marantz has a decent headphone amp built in too plus USB input for all files from MP3 to Hi Res FLAC so lots of options.

My theory is that there are a lot less products on the hi fi market than there used to be and a lot less brands too. Using the analogy of 'only the strong survive' my guess that most units by the well known brands are very good for the price and you can't go too far wrong. I'm sure someone...

I burn a lot of cdr's, I can vouch for the Marantz CD6007, Denon DCD900NE and Cambridge Audio AXC35, no problems at all.

Funny you say that, I saw an interview with him recently where he said he doesn't even have a decent stereo :D Back to the original question I would keep the Arcam too, I had an Alpha 7SE for years, they go on forever.

The one you like the sound of best?

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.