Marantz audio recorder manual#
Marantz audio recorder upgrade#

I had the back off the other day and the build quality looks crap but who cares at this price it seems to sound great. Well chuffed.!! (but only sounds great with the DAC) a must have. By the way i have since bought the DR700 from the shop. I have a Sony SCD777ES on its way and will report on my findings as soon as i have had the chance to test it with the DR700. So home came the Marantz CD17KIsig and what a bag of pure junk the DR700 Killed that too i couln't believe my ears really impressed as you can tell. My girlfriend agrees with every view i have on this unit, Bass is far more controlled than on my sony and detail is great.Д«ut i wanted more. First up the soundstage was amazing and the image impressive i've never heard my system sound so good. Outstanding!!! that is when played through my ARCAM Black Box 500 DAC, it kills my sony DVPS7700 dead that is stone dead, so much so that it wettened my thirst for a new cd player. When i played this as a cd player for the first time i was expecting it to be crap to say the least, I've been spoilt!! What can i say but no!!! Recordings are every bit as involving as the original when recorded from my Reference Sony DVPS7700 but its the playback side that really puts on a show. I have been using this machine now and am very very impressed. I work in a busy HIFI shop in Manchester and have been given the opportunity to try many a unit in the comfort of my own home (very lucky me). The sound is warm and the detail is satisfying. You can compare it to a cd player in the pricerange of 350 / 400 US $. Playback is as good as you can expect from a recorder in this pricerange. Get a good coaxial interlink, (MIT, WTB), and get the best copies you could ever imagine. I advise you to buy another cd-player with a coaxial out. But, of course the digital input is better. I don't know what the other reviewer is talking about. Otherwise you'll miss 0,5 seconds of the cd. If an original starts the playback immediately you shouldn't use the synchro option. The only weakness is the delay at the start of a recording. If I should guess how many copies I've made so far, it should be arround 300 / 350. So if any mistakes are made when recording, I should hear them. I have an Arcam D 290 and a Denon DCD 1450 AR with MIT interconnects. I've made lots of copies and I can only say one thing: Perfect quality! The coaxial input is as precise as you can wish for.

Marantz audio recorder upgrade#

I plan to upgrade my system soon with a new CD player which has digital outputs, to see if that is the cure to my recording problems, plus I plan to maybe change up the brand of blank CDs Im buying, but as of right now, this Marantz is acting no better for me than a cassette deck would. When recording off records onto the Marantz, the playback sound is even lower than off CDs, which is not that great. When recording off CDs through the ANALOG section, even they dont sound that great coming onto blank Maxell CDRs.the decibels are much lower than the original CD, but that could be because everything in my system is running ANALOG right now.

Marantz audio recorder manual#

First, the recording meter levels on the recorder are not that accurate when it reads that the music program is peaking where the manual recommends, the playback level is not that high, when listening to your custom CD in the car, etc. After making recordings on it, off both CDs and vinyl records, I have found many faults. I have had the Marantz model DR-700 for a good few months now, but because my primary CD source is a Kenwood 5 disc carousel which does not have digital outputs, this CD recorder is connected via the ANALOG section. Would love to know if other people have had similar experiences with other CD-Rs. And I just don't know if any other audio CD-R is better. This unit is also a very nice CD player, sonically speaking. On the other side, the recordings, once done, are excellent. Part of the blame lies with the music industry for creating all of the barriers to CD-R. Of course, that also lets me use cheaper non Consumer Audio disks (and Sound Forge to clean up the noisier albums), but it's not exactly as easy as a cassette deck. I've had to compensate by using CD-RW disks, ripping them on to my computer hard drive, separating the tracks and recording on to CD-R there. Unfortunately, I've found that even on a very quiet system (I have Rotel separates, a decent turntable and phono section (Sumiko Project 1.2, NAD phono preamp), the auto track ID feature doesn't work well. I bought this to transfer my vinyl collection to CD. Is it the piece or the technology? Don't know. I haven't used other consumer CD-R machines, but this one, although very well made, has its rough spots.