Marantz - Ken Ishiwata's 30th Anniversary Sacd

[John Holmes]

Anyone plan to pick this up?

I don't own any SACD's however, this hybrid sounds very interesting. It would also give me a chance to see if the SACD function of my PS3 actually work.

There are samples at the Marantz site:

https://www.marantz.eu/kipearl/

[Alaric]

Based on the samples , I'd like to hear that on my lowly SA8260. I'd rather hear it on a KI Pearl , but that's out of my budget for now.

[John Holmes]

Alaric,

I don't know that I would use "lowly" or any other such term, to describe your Marantz. It'a a very nice piece!

But like you, as much as I would enjoy having the KI-Pearl set, it will never happen. Well... not any year soon.

I would love to hear you thoughts on the SACD (if you purchase it that is). I'm still on the fence. That is a large chunk of change for a test disc for me. Not to mention, now that I think about it, my PS3 will only do SACD via HDMI. And my processor is pre-HDMI. So, as much as I'd like to check this disc out, I may pass on it.

[Alaric]

Lol. Yeah. I only meant lowly relative to the KI-Pearl. I love my CD player. It plays redbook CDs very well , too. For what it would sell for I would have to add another $1000 or so just to equal the redbook playback-something a lot of SACD players don't do so well. An equivalent SACD player at a reasonable price would likely be another Marantz-and I'd lose the 5.1 capability and gain little if anything in SQ. I'm eyeballing that SACD , though. The samples sounded good , but on my PC who knows? That's a lot of cash for a disc. I can get a lot of vinyl for that......

[Chris D]

I too would be interested in how this SACD is. Let us know!

[Alloroc]

They have the KI-Pearl set on demo in Harrods in London..... It's on the main A/V floor and hooked up to a pair of Mourdont-Short Peformance 6 speakers.... As it was in the open space it's really hard to get a good listen to.... In open space it sounds great but, you know.... it's hard to really listen...

But, if you manage to visit, you won't hang around as the have the amazing Focal JMLabs Grand Utoptia EMs on demo - unreal!