Marantz SA7001 CD/SACD player
Marantz SA7001 is a nicely built unit of the year 2006 that was capable to play CD and SACD discs. As now, it only plays CD discs for me, so it is only tested as a CD player.
Photos of the front and rear view
SA7001 has detachable 2-pin IEC mains cord
Photos of inside
Note very nice and quiet mains transformer
THD at 1kHz and 0dBFS
THD = 0.0039% and SINAD (24kHz unweighted) is 87dB. Noise floor below 1kHz is clean without PSU mains induced spectral lines.
THD at 1kHz and -60dBFS
THD = 0.084% and SINAD = 35dB at 1kHz/-60dB. This makes 95dB usable dynamic range for 16 bit CD data. Note very low noise level.
THD at 5kHz and 0dBFS
THD = 0.0097% and SINAD = 80dB at 5kHz. Clean spectrum below 5kHz with one negligibly small spurious line at 4kHz.
THD at 5kHz and -60dBFS
THD = 0.028% and SINAD = 34dB at 5kHz/-60dB. This makes 94dB usable dynamic range at 5kHz.
CCIF IMD 19+20kHz
H2 difference tone is about 95dB below full signal amplitude and H3 skirts are 102dB below full signal amplitude. This is almost excellent result of a CD player.
Digital zero
Noise measured was -106dBV(A) which makes S/N = 113dB. Excellent result.
Multitone
Multitone result is very good.
HF noise measured to 10MHz (added on December 2,2019)
This is an excellent, stellar textbook result. I have not measured any other DAC or CD player with such clean HF output.
Conclusion
Marantz SA7001 CD/SACD player was a nicely built unit with good parameters. Unfortunately the SACD mode does not work anymore in my unit, because parameters in SACD mode were significantly better, especially usable dynamic range. I have some older measurements but they are not compatible with my new ones because of different HW used.
In CD mode, SA7001 are at least respectable, with a little bit higher distortion at 0dBFS, however noise is very very low and enables to use CD format S/N completely. Cleanliness of spectrum and absence of PSU lines and digital spuriae is stellar.
Another plus is excellent cleanliness of HF output spectrum. Both this and low audio band noise is a result of excellent analog design with discrete components used.
Marantz SA7001 is a nicely built unit of the year 2006 that was capable to play CD and SACD discs. As now, it only plays CD discs for me, so it is only tested as a CD player.
Photos of the front and rear view
SA7001 has detachable 2-pin IEC mains cord
Photos of inside
Note very nice and quiet mains transformer
THD at 1kHz and 0dBFS
THD = 0.0039% and SINAD (24kHz unweighted) is 87dB. Noise floor below 1kHz is clean without PSU mains induced spectral lines.
THD at 1kHz and -60dBFS
THD = 0.084% and SINAD = 35dB at 1kHz/-60dB. This makes 95dB usable dynamic range for 16 bit CD data. Note very low noise level.
THD at 5kHz and 0dBFS
THD = 0.0097% and SINAD = 80dB at 5kHz. Clean spectrum below 5kHz with one negligibly small spurious line at 4kHz.
THD at 5kHz and -60dBFS
THD = 0.028% and SINAD = 34dB at 5kHz/-60dB. This makes 94dB usable dynamic range at 5kHz.
CCIF IMD 19+20kHz
H2 difference tone is about 95dB below full signal amplitude and H3 skirts are 102dB below full signal amplitude. This is almost excellent result of a CD player.
Digital zero
Noise measured was -106dBV(A) which makes S/N = 113dB. Excellent result.
Multitone
Multitone result is very good.
HF noise measured to 10MHz (added on December 2,2019)
This is an excellent, stellar textbook result. I have not measured any other DAC or CD player with such clean HF output.
Conclusion
Marantz SA7001 CD/SACD player was a nicely built unit with good parameters. Unfortunately the SACD mode does not work anymore in my unit, because parameters in SACD mode were significantly better, especially usable dynamic range. I have some older measurements but they are not compatible with my new ones because of different HW used.
In CD mode, SA7001 are at least respectable, with a little bit higher distortion at 0dBFS, however noise is very very low and enables to use CD format S/N completely. Cleanliness of spectrum and absence of PSU lines and digital spuriae is stellar.
Another plus is excellent cleanliness of HF output spectrum. Both this and low audio band noise is a result of excellent analog design with discrete components used.
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