| Marantz SA-KI Pearl SACD/CD Player Review |
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| Written by Todd Whitesel | |||||||||||||||
| Monday, 14 December 2009 | |||||||||||||||
Page 3 of 3 I've been starting most of my December mornings with the Overture from Mozart's The Marriage Of Figaro. The exultant music gives me a needed boost of optimism when outside wind chills are well below zero and winter has, at least astronomically, yet to officially begin. The performance in question comes from a 1968 recording of the Berlin Opera Chorus and Orchestra directed by Karl Bohm. The CD was sourced, obviously, from analog tape and according to Deutsche Grammophon, original-image bit-processing results in “added presence and brilliance, greater spatial definition.” It's all that, and this Figaro seems the perfect marriage with the SA-KI Pearl, which brings out the music's elegance, beauty and warmth. A gorgeous performance given golden (make that pearly) wings by Marantz.  The SA-KI Pearl is a testament to Marantz's and Ishiwata's ongoing quest for true music reproduction. It rich, opulent sound won me over and kept me feeding it disc after disc in anticipation of what hidden audio treasures might be revealed. Most important, I wanted to listen to the player and enjoyed listening to digital like never before. For SACD and CD, buy this component for the sound and revel in an audio experience that few others will. The SA-KI is a rare Pearl, indeed. System Setup Marantz SA-KI Pearl SACD/CD Player Marantz PM-KI Pearl Integrated Amplifier Klipsch WF-34 floorstanding loudspeakers RS Audio Cables Illume Silver Interconnects (1 meter) RS Audio Cables Illume Silver Loudspeaker Cables (8 ft) RS Audio Cables Kevlar Starchord Power Cable (6 ft)
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