Marantz SA-7S1 Expert Reviews

Of course, Marantz started life as one of the founding fathers of the high-end, a fact reflected in the nomenclature of this latest range, the SA-7's matching amps echoing the designations of the legendary Model 7 pre-amp and Model 9 mono-blocs. The ...

Which brings us finally to the question of value. The SA-7S1 is a beautifully built and presented player. It's versatile and it's operationally really well sorted. It delivers a presence and solid stability from both SACD and CD that no player at its ...

In the escalating product race between Denon and Marantz, both companies have introduced a range of high-grade disc players and amplifiers that have helped to push the boundaries of what's commonly referred to as 'state-of-the-art' in the world of hi-fi

Not just state of the art, but also remarkably easy on the ear, The finest player we have heard in a long while, Makes high-class disc replay sound almost too easy

Costs an arm and a leg

Stunning player aimed at the serious audiophile community, that offers remarkably transparent sound in the very specific sense that it is virtually impossible to hear it working. CD replay often approaches the quality of SACD

The external casework and general presentation owes much to the more recent CD-7

Not just state of the art, but also remarkably easy on the ear, The finest player we have heard in a long while, Makes high-class disc replay sound almost too easy

Costs an arm and a leg

The mechanism is a new in-house design based on a disc tray fabricated from 10mm thick solid aluminium to reduce resonant behaviour and to inhibit internal noise radiation. Where other players use opto-couplers to provide ground plane separation ...

A great SACD/CD player, but give it a proper listen or you won’t realise what all the fuss is about

It has a refined, informative and natural presentation; excellent build and finish

Understated sound might not appeal on a short listen

Speaker Manufacturers apologize, but no speakers in the world can exploit their potential if not the rest of the plant due to changing developments. And it all starts with the signal source. Without a CD player of the highest quality, it is not much point...

Marantz made a name for the 60-century as förstärkartillverkare in High-End class. It knows most. But it is not as many people know that 20 years later was a name to reckon with even in the CD context. In the early 90s, few producers who managed to get a

Marantz SA-7S1 Amplifier any chain, with its rock-solid qualities

Refined; and appropriately;

For the price, nothing;

Toformats player with musical qualities that tend to cost even more. Super airy, transparent and effortless music conveys. Rock-solid quality, rock-solid performance .