Originally Posted by
Eddie
You're very welcome. If you do order it, let us know how much of a difference you hear.
When I was CDP shopping, I did ABX comparisons with that Marantz in a shop against a NAD c542, my vintage SonyES, and a Pioneer 563. They were using some Monitor Audio towers and I think that's why I didn't hear any striking differences (other than immediately disliking the Pioneer). Then I got the Marantz and ABed it at home against the Sony on my 340s, and suddenly---bam! Huge difference.
So I can't speak for the SE version, but my classic 340s proved to be quite sensitive to the musical source.
Are you using the internal DACs of the player or the preamp/receiver's DACs?
I have the 563a using it's optical digital link to my Denon.
Ed
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