Marantz SA8001 SACD Player

Pros: With good speakers, you would swear you were in a live performance.

Cons: This is not a multi-channel CD player and does not play surround sound .

Review: This is by far the best sounding CD player I have ever heard in analog two channel stereo. It makes any CD sound better. The clarity and channel separation are as good as CD players costing thousands of dollars. Marantz really hit a home run with this ...

Pros: Superb SACD playback, and amazingly good standard CD playback.

Cons: The slowest Fast-Forward I've ever encountered anywhere.

The Bottom Line: Once you get past the horribly slow fast-forward time, you'll find the sonic performance of this unit nothing less than superb.

Review: The Marantz SA-8001 SACD player was designed to provide top-notch performance from SACD's in a 2-channel format, so as to appeal to the audiophile (like myself) who has no interest in the multi-channel capability of SACD's. This is not meant as a ...