![]() Centered at the top are a USB Type-A port for connecting a USB drive or charging a mobile device, and an Ethernet port for connection to a home network. The SACD 30n supports only SBC and AAC, not the advanced aptX, aptX HD, or LDAC codecs.Īt bottom left are two pairs of line-level RCA output jacks, one pair at fixed level, the other variable. Using the menus or the remote control, this light can be dimmed or turned off entirely, though I don’t know why anyone would choose the latter-it looks gorgeous.Īt the top of the rear panel, on either side, are screw terminals for the supplied Bluetooth and Wi-Fi antennas. The front plate is subtly illuminated by light emanating from under the edges of the raised control panel: golden light with the Silver-Gold finish, cool white light with the Black. The only things on the front plate proper are, respectively at far left and right, an on/off switch and a 1/4″ headphone jack. Smack-dab in the middle is the disc drawer and a dimmable, three-line OLED display. ![]() To the left of that cursor pad is a Back button for exiting menus, and to its left, a volume knob for the headphone output. On the right side of the raised section is another cursor pad, this one for navigating the player’s menus. To the right and slightly below this pad is a button for opening and closing the disc drawer, and to its right, a small Input knob. On the left side of the SACD 30n’s control panel is a circular cursor pad with a play button in the middle, and stop, pause/resume, and track-skip controls around the perimeter. Instead of side cheeks, each has a large, matte-finished control panel that stands about 0.3″ proud of the actual front plate, which has a textured diamond pattern. Both models depart significantly from Marantz’s traditional design cues. Like the Model 30, the SACD 30n has a steel top plate, with aluminum front and side panels. Like the Model 30 amp, the SACD 30n is available in two finishes: Silver-Gold, or the Black of my review sample. Measuring 17.4″W x 5.1″H x 16.7″D and weighing 29.75 pounds, the SACD 30n is a substantial piece of kit-you won’t be hiding this baby on a lower shelf of a living-room end table. In any of these applications, the SACD 30n can serve as the hub for all your digital music, whether it’s on a physical disc, stored on a computer or smartphone, or streamed from the Internet. Or, if you use the player’s variable line-level outputs, you can connect it directly to a power amplifier or, as I did, to a pair of active loudspeakers. Obviously, you can mate the SACD 30n with any integrated amplifier or preamplifier. I think most buyers will combine these two models-but there are other possibilities. Marantz announced the SACD 30n in September 2020, along with the matching Model 30 integrated amplifier ($2599), specified to output 100Wpc into 8 ohms and sporting a moving-magnet/moving-coil phono stage. (I’ve reviewed several components with voice support, and have never found this feature very useful.) The SACD 30n supports the Amazon Alexa, Apple Siri, and Google Assistant voice-assistant protocols, as well as the less-well-known Josh.ai. And you can listen to Internet Radio, with or without the HEOS app. You can also stream to the SACD 30n music stored on your mobile device. The player supports Apple AirPlay 2, so you can stream via AirPlay from an iOS device or Mac, or an iTunes library on a Windows PC. With the HEOS app installed on an Android or iOS device, you can play music from, say, Amazon Music HD and Tidal through the SACD 30n. HEOS is a high-resolution multi-room audio technology developed by Denon-Marantz, and is used in the two brands' network music products. And it has Bluetooth, so you can stream from a smartphone. You can connect a computer to its USB Type-B port and use it as a USB DAC, and other components to its coaxial and TosLink S/PDIF inputs. ![]() A two-channel disc player, it also has a full slate of digital inputs, all with support for high-resolution audio. Many audiophiles have large collections on those formats, and even as they turn to streaming, they want to keep playing their shiny discs.Īimed at these people are such components as Marantz’s SACD 30n SACD/CD player ($2599, all prices USD). In that same period, revenues from streaming grew 12%, to $4.8 billion-85% of recording-industry revenues in the US.īut while fewer and fewer music-lovers are buying CDs and SACDs, that doesn’t mean they’re not playing them. According to the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), US sales of CDs fell 45.2% (units) and 47.6% (dollars) in the first half of 2020, compared to the same period a year earlier. ![]() Is the Compact Disc on its last legs? It sure looks that way. ![]()
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