It uses the same cirrhus logic chip that the 803 and 804 SACD/CD players use. After obtaining an exchange, I'd give it a big thumbs up for sound.

It turned that my original model was defective. I had discussed it on some other threads in the 'Digital' forum. Ours was.Īchilles: you had asked about the Marantz NA 7004 player a few months ago on this thread and I just saw it now. To hear these differences, you will need a truly resolving system. One show attendee in the room said 'shit, my entire library is FLAC, I dont want to hear this' The FLAC track was like listening through a tunnel.

one of my roommates said it would souind better as. Great track, but it was given to us in FLAC format. I recently was in my room ar RMAF playing a 44.1 track of Steven Stills 'treetop flyer'. I know saying this that I will get a lot if flac from the posters here, yet I know it to be true. wav is superior, not because the FLAC decoding is flawed, but because these decoders simply cannot keep-up in real time with the datastream. You will find that the sound quality of the. If you want to play FLAC files using a USB or Firewire converter or DAC, or directly from the MAC, I would highly recommend using XLD to convert these files first to.

Xld mp3 256