SA12SE

Marantz Musical Mastering technology sets new standards for digital and analog audio processing. A transport mechanism designed exclusively for audio, the SACDM-3 can play SACDs, CDs, or recordings made on CD-ROMs and DVD-ROMs. But that's not all, the player is equipped with an asynchronous USB input capable of handling formats up to 384kHz/32bit (PCM/DXD) or up to 11.2MHz (DSD). Marantz Musical Mastering Stream converts all PCM file formats to DSD using advanced filtering and proprietary processing before Marantz Musical Mastering Conversion converts the 1-bit data stream directly to analog without the need for a conventional D/A converter.
The Marantz engineering team has built this player to deliver sound that will bring you closer than ever to the music you love. The reason is simple and essential to everything Marantz does - Because music matters.

• Designed and carefully tuned by a team of engineers based on over 35 years of Marantz CD player design experience
• Proprietary Marantz Musical Mastering “MMM-Stream” Signal Processing System
• 1-bit “MMM” converter from DSD to analogue of our own design
• High quality analog output using Marantz HDAM-SA3 technology
• Transport mechanism Marantz “SACDM-3”
• Playback of both original SACD/CD discs and those recorded on CD-ROM or DVD-ROM
• Asynchronous USB input for music files up to 384kHz/32bit (PCM/DXD) or 11.2MHz (DSD).
• Isolated digital inputs to block noise from connected sources
• toroidal transformer
• High-quality headphone output, fully discrete design using HDAM-SA2 modules

Mechanism	SACD-M3 (METAL)
D/A conversion	Marantz Musical Mastering Conversion + Stream
DAC chip	Marantz Musical Mastering Conversion + Stream
digital filter	DSP (Marantz)
Noise shaper	DSP (Marantz)
Low Pass Filter Cascade	HDAM-SA2, SA3 current feedback
output buffer	HDAM SA3
Headphone Amplifier	HDAM-SA2 current feedback
Frequency Range (Cust.)	2Hz   50kHz
Dynamic Range (SA)	109dB
Signal to noise ratio (SA)	112dB
Distortion, THD(SA)	0.0008%
Channel Separation (SA)
Frequency range	2Hz   20kHz
Dynamic Range	98 dB
Signal to noise ratio	104 dB
Distortion (THD)	0.000015
Channel separation