Ya, this I have to agree with you.
My power hungry Polk Audio LSi9 when connectted with denon avr, it cut power after a few minutes. But run smoothly on marantz 5 series.

This post has been edited by fx20: Sep 24 2016, 12:36 PM

My friend 6008 started to behave exactly like what you have describe.

AVR is mainly for multichannel and usually precludes eq. You need to spend time calibrating it to get good sound.

If you mainly listen to 2 channel, then you wouldnt go wrong with stereo amps as they are optimized for this kind of music.

Wow, I saw you wanted to sell it now.

Bro, I dont do normal listening.... hahaha

SACD production is expensive. Only a handful of ppl own sacd players. So that means they are not for general consumers.

Reproduction of SACD from CD not necessary sound good. Though they are done with DSD encoding, many ppl thing they are not superior, because there was no software to edit DSD directly. They are mainly edited from PCM.

SACD is dead, announced by sony itself year ago. Bluray audio is the replacement, but also seems dead today. Look like HDTrack is trend now.

I have a lot of SACD, but 95% of them are multichannel SACD. The 5% of my SACD are stereo SACD, which I bought accidentally.

The reason I collect SACD is because they have multichannel. However, in the late 2011 I spoke to a remastered engineer and he told me they are mostly up-sample-ed from 2-channel master.
I have leaned through him that most SACD from Telarc are mastered from multi-channel masters.

Don't disappoint, you must understand the introduction of SACD is to provide surround sound.

SACD is softer than PCM. I personally prefer the detail offer by LPCM.


There are 2 ways to play multi channel SACD.

1. If your sacd player have analog output, you can connect them to an integrated amps. Commonly, ppl are using AVR.

2. Ideally, if you have avrs like SR5010 (and above) which have dsd decoder built-in, you can just connect your player through HDMI.

Why you want to analyze? We listen to music, not to sound.

No lah bro I only use Parasound and Emerald Physics power amps.

Talk about SACD, the most sought ones are those "Original Master Recording" on all the MFSL SACD.

The SR can be used as as good preamp, it power amp was ok but it could be distorted at high volume.
Get a good power amp.

I came from the era of dedicated pre and post amp.
Throughout the years, I also have owned and helped others setup their AVRs. One of the main reason I have found ppl hated AVR for stereo because they sound so 'plain' when replacing their amp, even at the same volume. Most of the time was configuration issues (should try pure direct instead other mode), and 1 thing for sure is 2-channel dedicated amp has big tranny vs smaller tranny in most of the AVR, yet with more channel, and obviously, the later are underpowered. However, with power amp, it could make significant difference.


Unlike pioneer LX AVR, marantz doesnt allow you to turn off their power amp , so it does run really warm. Just dont cover the ventilation grille and you should be fine.

Most electrical components can withstand up 2 80c