marantz cr603 arrived today advice needed

[Sizzers]

Good Man!! :cheers:

I also had the 603 which I bought on a bit of a “whim” in January of this year. After a few very short days and with no real extended listening with it, I decided that I preferred my Marantz CD6003/PM6003 combo so I boxed it up and pretty much forgot about it.

Some time afterwards I moved on to an all-Rega system. Cutting a long story short I ended up not being able to live with it, so out of curiosity as much as anything else I thought I’d give the 603 another go. This time around I did give it a proper try, and you know what? I loved it!, and far more listenable to my ears than the Rega system turned out to be.

Nasty financial brown stuff forced it’s sale, but believe me I will be buying another one. Give it a proper chance and see how you get on with it; if you don’t like it, fine, but at least you’ll have given it a go.

All the best!

 

[audioaddict]

thanks mate. can i ask though, i have just discovered the dbb tone so i adjusted the bass and treble accordingly as opposed to using the source direct , so i dont know if this is normal for cr603 owners or not or whether the sourse direct sounds better when the system is properly run in

 

[Sizzers]

Well I don’t believe in system “run-in”, but I’m not starting a debate on that!

As with all tone controls/EQ it’s purely a matter of personal preference. I prefer source direct whenever possible, but I find tone controls have their uses for particularly poor or harsh recordings. Likewise they can be very useful for late night low volume listening to give your music a bit of a bass boost (that’s what the “Loudness” button is for on some amplifiers, although some work better than others). I much prefer to have tone controls than not as long as there is a “Direct” mode to bypass them.

 

[audioaddict]

yeah i prefer source direct. ive just popped into hughes and bought some cheap 79 strand and will try that in single wire mode if its no better ive only lost a tenner, cheers mate

 

[plastic penguin]

yeah i prefer source direct. ive just popped into hughes and bought some cheap 79 strand and will try that in single wire mode if its no better ive only lost a tenner, cheers mate

I'm pretty confident you'll hear a better sound from single wires.

 

[Sizzers]

Well give it a good few days to adjust to the sound.

I didn't when I bought mine, and if I had got on better with my then new system I probably would never have lstened to it again. And remember, you're in no rush to send it back within the 30 days so just see how it goes.

 

[Johnno2]

yeah i prefer source direct. ive just popped into hughes and bought some cheap 79 strand and will try that in single wire mode if its no better ive only lost a tenner, cheers mate

let us know how you get on with the cheap single cable, i think you might be surprised, BTW when I had a 'play' with a demo model in the shop I prefered the source direct as well for well recorded stuff, but it also sounded rather good with the treble at flat and the bass up a couple of notches, gave a lovely full sound without any obvious colouration , but that could have been the tannoys .

 

[audioaddict]

I will do johnno i will have a go at it tomorrow. Talking about the tone controls when mine was bi wired i found the sound too closed in but sounded much better when the treble was turned up a bit and a bit of bass was added. the sound really opened up a bit so when i single wire tommorow i will set it back to source direct and go from there. i did hear the 603 last year in richer sounds running into dali fazor 5 obviously single wired and it sounded awsome so hopefully i will get there tomorrow. will keep you posted.