About this item
Drawing on the development process for their flagship SA-10, and designed by the same team, the SA-12 Special Edition is a reference-quality Super Audio CD Player, plus DAC, created by Marantz to celebrate the love of music and exalt the mastery and emotion of music. Released in September 2020.
Features
- Engineered and extensively tuned by a team drawing on more than 35 years of Marantz expertise in CD players
- Innovative Marantz Musical Mastering “MMM-Stream” up-sampling to DSD and filtering
- Custom-designed 1-bit direct “MMM–Conversion” from DSD to analogue
- High quality analogue output stage with Marantz HDAM-SA3 technology and low impedance output
- In-house developed Marantz SACD/CD mechanism “SACDM-3” designed purely for audio
- Playback of SACD/CD playback and of compilations on CD-ROM and DVD-ROM (audio)
- Asynchronous USB input for hi-res audio up to PCM/DXD 384kHz/32bit and DSD11.2MHz
- Isolation of USB and digital inputs to block noise from connected sources
- Power supply using toroidal transformer
- Dedicated headphone amplifier with all-discrete construction featuring HDAM-SA2
Specifications
- CD Compatibility: CD / CD-R/RW / SA-CD / WMA / MP3 / AAC
- SA-CD Text / ID3 Tag / WMA Meta Tag / AAC Meta Data
- Data Disc Compatibility: DSD 5.6 / WAV 192 / ALAC 96
- DAC operation mode: USB-B / Coax / Optical
- Asynchronous mode rear USB
- Bit-perfect transmission
- USB-B DSD Audio Streaming (DoP): DSD2.8 / DSD5.6: DSD11.2
- Signal isolator for DAC Mode operation
- HDAM version: HDAM SA2 + HDAM SA3
- Power Transformer: Toroidal
- High Grade Audio Components: Yes
- Customised Components: Yes
- Symmetric circuit layout: Yes
- Digital Out Off: Yes
- Headphone: Current Feedback
- Selectable filter: CD / DAC-Mode
- Marantz Musical Mastering: Yes (HD)
- Marantz Musical Mastering Stream: Yes
- Marantz Musical Mastering Conversion: Yes
- Separated rectifier circuit for analogue & digital circuitry: Yes
- Display: On / Off
- Low noise LCD display
- Analogue Out Cinch: 2ch
- Balanced Out: Yes
- Digital Optical: In / Out
- Digital Coaxial: In / Out
- Sample Rate Digital In: 192 kHz / 24-bit
- Gold Plated Cinch: Silver / Nickel
- USB Audio: Rear
- USB-A: FLAC / WAV / AIFF / ALAC / DSD
- Asynchronous mode rear USB: Yes
- USB-B input for PC (rear): 384 kHz / 32-bit
- USB-B DSD Audio Streaming (DoP): DSD2.8 / DSD5.6 / DSD11.2
- D-Bus: Yes
- Headphone Out: Yes
- Headphone Volume Control: Yes
- Remote Control: RC005PMSA
- Power Consumption: 47W
- Standby Consumption: 0.3W
- Auto Power-Off: Yes
- Detachable Power Cable: Yes
- Maximum Dimensions (W x D x H): 440 x 419 x 123mm
- Weight: 16.4kg
- Carton Maximum Dimensions (W x D x H): 557 x 536 x 243mm
- Carton Weight (inc. product): 19.6kg
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