Marantz PM-10 Integrated Amplifier and SACD Player Kit

Start building your audiophile-grade system with this Kit that includes the black Marantz PM-10 Stereo 200W Power Amplifier and the Marantz SA10 SACD Player. They can be connected together using two balanced XLR cables to achieve minimal interference, or stereo RCA cables will suffice, as well (cables available separately). Plug your computer and USB drives into the USB inputs on the CD player to take advantage of the onboard digital-to-analog converter (DAC); plug other digital devices, such as Blu-ray or DVD players, into the optical and digital coaxial inputs to enjoy your high-resolution concert discs and other media.

Marantz PM-10 Stereo 200W Power Amplifier (Black)

Enjoy enhanced quality audio with your speakers, audio source, and the black Marantz PM-10 Stereo 200W Power Amplifier. It outputs up to 200W per channel RMS at 8 ohms and can connect to two pairs of speakers in an A/B configuration. It features a symmetrical circuitry design to help minimize interference while also augmenting the power output. The amplifier has five stereo RCA inputs, including one reserved for a MM or MC turntable. Its two balanced stereo XLR inputs allow you to connect it to audiophile-grade source components along a purely analog signal path.

Designed for Audiophile-Grade Quality

To help this amplifier achieve audiophile-grade quality, Marantz has optimized each section of the amplifier for its specific task, the way a separate preamplifier and monoblock power amplifier would. It uses a dual-mono design with separate power supplies for the preamplifier and each of the channels, with one transformer dedicated to the preamp to help ensure that the signals passing through that section aren`t affected by the high power output stages. There`s also a dedicated supply for the microprocessor controlling volume adjustment, input, selection, and more, ensuring that virtually no noise from the control section leaks into the audio path.

Pure Analog Amplifier

The purely analog design of the PM-10 ensures that noise from digital circuitry doesn`t interfere with the analog signals passing through it. Purest Mode deactivates any superfluous circuits to give the signal the cleanest possible path through the amplifier. There`s also a Power Amp input, which takes the signal straight from the input section to the power stage to let the PM-10 work as a pure power amplifier.

Balanced Design from Input to Final Power Section

The mirror imaging of the layout, in which identical components are handling the positive and negative portions of the signal, helps cancel out any potential interference, noise, or errors. Additionally, the balanced design uses stronger signals than unbalanced designs, meaning the signal is less susceptible to outside interference and noise.

The PM-10 uses a fully balanced layout, from the input section all the way through to the final power amplifier section. It has two sets of balanced inputs, along with conventional unbalanced line-level RCA inputs and a phono stage; the signal from these inputs is converted to a balanced signal before passing through the amplification stage.

Balanced, Bridged Power Amplification

The bridged amplifier uses two separate amplifier stages per channel to drive one speaker, with one amp pushing the cones and domes and the other pulling them back. With that much control on how the drivers behave, the amplifier can make them start and stop moving more precisely, augmenting the definition and speed of the system; this means that it can play music with better rhythmic and spatial controls, while also making voices and instruments sound more realistic.

The bridged amplifiers in the power output stage allow this control to be combined with a high power output of up to 200W per channel to two channels at 8 ohms, and can also handle demanding speakers or those whose impedance varies with frequency, thanks to its 400W per channel output to two channels at 4 ohms. This helps ensure that even large, power-hungry speakers driven at high levels sound clean and distortion-free, and that the drivers are doing what the music demands.

HDAM (Hyper Dynamic Amplifier Module)

The onboard HDAM SA3 is part of a current feedback topology designed to provide wide frequency and dynamic ranged, as well as fast block capacitors to provide a fast response to demands for high current. The same current feedback design is applied to the phono stage, which can be used with either moving coil or moving magnet cartridges to help ensure the best possible playback of your records.

Additional Features

• Double-layered, copper-plated chassis helps reject mechanical and electrical interference
• Non-magnetic aluminum panel casework
• 0.2" thick aluminum top lid and solid aluminum front
• Machined aluminum feet
• Pure, solid copper speaker terminals
• 4-layer symmetrical PCB
• Constant Current Feedback phono EQ
• Toroidal power transformer with two SMPS
• Nickel-plated CD and Phono RCA inputs; others are gold-plated
• D-Bus
• Linear Drive Power Supply (pre-amplifier stage)
• Linear volume control
• Bi-Amp and Multichannel options
• Schottky diodes
• Input buffer amp on all inputs
• Double-layer bottom plate
• Low-noise LCD
• System remote function

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Marantz SA10 SACD Player (Black)

Enjoy all your favorite audio CDs, SACDs, and files with the black Marantz SA10 SACD Player. It has a front-loading tray that will accept your SACDs, CDs, CD-Rs, CD-RWs, and DVD-ROM discs encoded with various audio file types, including MP3, WMA, WAV, and AAC. The CD player has a USB Type-A port for playing files from portable drives, as well as a USB Type-B input for connecting your computer. For private listening, it has a 1/4" headphone output on the front panel. It includes a stereo RCA cable, a remote cable, and a remote control.

Dedicated SACD & CD Playback

The onboard transport mechanism is engineered to provide enhanced performance when playing SACDs, CDs, and music stored on data discs, including DVD-ROMs, allowing you to create high-resolution audio compilation discs using your computer`s DVD burner. It can play FLAC files from 44.1 to 192 kHz at up to 24-bit resolution, DSD 2.8 MHz, DSD 5.6 MHz, ALAC (Apple Lossless), AIFF, and MP3 files.

More Than a CD Player

The built-in digital-to-analog converter (DAC) lets you convert music stored on your computer, and the digital inputs enable the SA10 to pass audio from existing source components. The optical and digital coaxial inputs can handle files at up to 192 kHz / 24-bit; a USB-B asynchronous input allows for the direct connection of your computer and supports PCM and DXD files at up to 384 kHz / 32-bit, as well as DSD 2.8 MHz, DSD 5.6 MHz, and DSD 11.2 MHz.

Further, the digital input section is completely isolated to help it avoid electrical noise from connected components, which is common when a computer is used as a source. The SA10 also uses 1-bit conversion and incorporates filtering and upconversion technologies.

Marantz Musical Mastering

PCM and DXD inputs are upconverted to DSD at 11.2 MHz using the onboard MMM-Stream converter, and the high-frequency signal produced is processed by the MMM-Conversion stage, rather than a conventional DAC, to produce the analog output.

MMM-Stream replaces the oversampling filters normally used in D/A conversion and allows the implementation of the Marantz Musical Mastering filtering. One provides a slow roll-off and short impulse response, and the other offers the option of a medium roll-off with short pre-ringing and longer post-ringing.

Dual System Clocks

Two system clocks are used to help ensure accurate upconversion of the incoming signal, whether it`s from a disc or the digital inputs. The 44.1 kHz of CD, and its multiples (88.2 kHz, 176.4 kHz, etc.) are upsampled to 11.2896 MHz, while