Just bought one of these from Eric Wiley's in Castleford, listening to Jeff Buckley's 'Grace' I was blown away by the sound it's rich, lush & fantastic for the price. It wouldn't be out of place with a £500.00 tag on it, you can't go wrong!
I'm about to rediscover all my CD's with this it's like swapping the apple earbuds for a pair of Ultimate Ears/Grado's/Sennheisers.
Reading the review, I would be quite interested to get the CD6004. But I don't intend to buy the ampli PM6004, as I already have an old (but quite good I think) NAD 3240PE amp... There are the NAD C545BEE and C565BEE which also get very good reviews but which are said not to be as good as the Marantz CD6004... Anyone could advise??? Tx
Agreed that it makes sense to leave the various digital bits to the cd player but to add a digital input here would have been a good feature, or at least offering support for a lossless format on the usb port. Maybe they are leaving this feature for more expensive sacd players and whatnot
Yes it makes sense, there would be no other reason to have the usb input on the CD player, in that case they would have put it on the amp right?
Well, putting a USB input on the amp would have meant building digital-to-analogue conversion in the amp; it's already there in the CD player, so it's relatively easy to use it for external sources such as iOS and USB devices. Marantz Brand Ambassador Ken Ishiwata explains more on this subject in this interview
Thanks for the link, good interview and it answers my question. Also interesting to read that they have paid attention to the headphone amp in the PM6004. I have been looking for a DAC and headphone amp for a while now, but at even less money, this looks to offer so much more.
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Just bought one of these from Eric Wiley's in Castleford, listening to Jeff Buckley's 'Grace' I was blown away by the sound it's rich, lush & fantastic for the price. It wouldn't be out of place with a £500.00 tag on it, you can't go wrong!
I'm about to rediscover all my CD's with this it's like swapping the apple earbuds for a pair of Ultimate Ears/Grado's/Sennheisers.
Reading the review, I would be quite interested to get the CD6004. But I don't intend to buy the ampli PM6004, as I already have an old (but quite good I think) NAD 3240PE amp... There are the NAD C545BEE and C565BEE which also get very good reviews but which are said not to be as good as the Marantz CD6004... Anyone could advise??? Tx
Agreed that it makes sense to leave the various digital bits to the cd player but to add a digital input here would have been a good feature, or at least offering support for a lossless format on the usb port. Maybe they are leaving this feature for more expensive sacd players and whatnot
MARANTZ 6004 CD player VS HARMAN-KARDON HD 990 CD player.
If there is any person who ever heard both, so maybe he knows what supposed to be better and produce better quality of music?:
Thanks...
Yes it makes sense, there would be no other reason to have the usb input on the CD player, in that case they would have put it on the amp right?
Well, putting a USB input on the amp would have meant building digital-to-analogue conversion in the amp; it's already there in the CD player, so it's relatively easy to use it for external sources such as iOS and USB devices. Marantz Brand Ambassador Ken Ishiwata explains more on this subject in this interview
Thanks for the link, good interview and it answers my question. Also interesting to read that they have paid attention to the headphone amp in the PM6004. I have been looking for a DAC and headphone amp for a while now, but at even less money, this looks to offer so much more.
Does anybody know, if I plug an MP3 player into the USB, will the signal be processed by the CD6004's dac?
Would be great if this is the case.
Provided the CD6004 can see it as a USB mass storage device, then yes it should work fine.