Thread: Marantz to Add Two Universal Blu-Ray Players

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Post by rammiepie August 3, 2009 (1 of 23)
Marantz has announced two Universal players: The Marantz UD9004 Blu-Ray/SACD/DVD-A will be released in August '09 at a list price of $5,999.00 to be followed in October with the UD8004 with a $2,199.00 list price (Blu-Ray, SACD/DVD-A). With the Lexicon and Onkyo, a total of four new players capable of SACD playback are on the pipeline (and the OPPO BDP-83 being a fifth has already been released to rave reviews and at a bargain price compared to the rest).

Post by soundboy August 3, 2009 (2 of 23)
rammiepie said:

With the Lexicon and Onkyo, a total of four new players capable of SACD playback are on the pipeline (and the OPPO BDP-83 being a fifth has already been released to rave reviews and at a bargain price compared to the rest).

Don't you mean Denon instead of Onkyo?

Post by azure August 4, 2009 (3 of 23)
So many new players coming on to the market ... where are the new titles?
I was hoping that Sony Music would release the new Barbra Streisand album "Love Is The Answer" as a Hybrid SACD. maybe the deluxe package?
http://www.barbrastreisand.com/index.php?page=news&n_id=1283

Post by michi August 4, 2009 (4 of 23)
Really, really unlikely... SACD seems to simply be off of the labels' radar, probably forever, for anything in the realm of the popular. Streisand included. (Though I can't be sure. Just a feeling. Even the classical labels are dropping, it seems.)

There's been a lot of the "Deluxe" packages released, which used to sometimes contain SACD -- now, they don't... Even of some titles that have been released in SACD before!

I'm hoping that MoFi keeps up their trickle of releases... Hopefully they won't "get the memo".

I have a feeling that the classical market being "strong" in SACD (relatively) is what's kept manufacturers like Marantz, Lexicon, and even Oppo continuing to release SACD compatible units... Soon as even -that- genre falls out, that may stop, too.

Meanwhile, we can hope... I think there's -one- pressing plant remaining in the world who can do SACD. Wouldn't it be nice to be a fly on the wall there?

Post by wolf359 August 4, 2009 (5 of 23)
rammiepie said:

Marantz has announced two Universal players: The Marantz UD9004 Blu-Ray/SACD/DVD-A will be released in August '09 at a list price of $5,999.00 to be followed in October with the UD8004 with a $2,199.00 list price (Blu-Ray, SACD/DVD-A). With the Lexicon and Onkyo, a total of four new players capable of SACD playback are on the pipeline (and the OPPO BDP-83 being a fifth has already been released to rave reviews and at a bargain price compared to the rest).

For those intrested there are photos of the Marantz UD9004 on this site on the 13 million SACD players thread. I have been looking at the UD9004 on various sites and on none of them does it mention DVD-Audio. This was some time ago however and since then it may have been added. I agree with the comments about all these new machines in all price ranges but with a singular lack of new discs to feed them.(except classical) If what is said is true about there only being one pressing plant capable of making the discs no wonder they are in short supply or simply not produced. Just another nail in the coffin I suppose. as to the remark about the new Striesand album in SACD forget it. Nowadays it all about maximising profit with cheap production and high volume SACD does not fit that profile. Quality sound and technology do not rule over cheap and cheerful in these recession times

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Post by hiredfox August 5, 2009 (6 of 23)
wolf359 said:

Nowadays it all about maximising profit with cheap production and high volume SACD does not fit that profile. Quality sound and technology do not rule over cheap and cheerful in these recession times

/showthread/13357/40216/y#40216

Nailed full on!

Post by Kal Rubinson August 5, 2009 (7 of 23)
wolf359 said:

For those intrested there are photos of the Marantz UD9004 on this site on the 13 million SACD players thread. I have been looking at the UD9004 on various sites and on none of them does it mention DVD-Audio.

It also down-samples SACD output via HDMII.

Kal

Post by Marc P August 6, 2009 (8 of 23)
You guys probably don't read German, I can but it takes me a while, but you can look at the pretty pictures.
The new Denon player :http://www.areadvd.de/hardware/2009/denon_dvda1ud_1.shtml

The sad thing is, the review was written by dvd/blu ray lovers, so no usefull information on the sound quality of the SACD part.
They made the machine recode the output to 7.1 and give their opion on that.
It does do everything, dvd, blu ray, dvd-audio and SACD.

Post by Kal Rubinson August 6, 2009 (9 of 23)
Marc P said:

You guys probably don't read German, I can but it takes me a while, but you can look at the pretty pictures.
The new Denon player :http://www.areadvd.de/hardware/2009/denon_dvda1ud_1.shtml

The sad thing is, the review was written by dvd/blu ray lovers, so no usefull information on the sound quality of the SACD part.
They made the machine recode the output to 7.1 and give their opion on that.
It does do everything, dvd, blu ray, dvd-audio and SACD.

Almost everything: Downsamples SACD over HDMI requiring the use of DenonLink for full bandwidth output.

Kal

Post by Fokker October 5, 2009 (10 of 23)
Marc P said:

You guys probably don't read German, I can but it takes me a while, but you can look at the pretty pictures.
The new Denon player :http://www.areadvd.de/hardware/2009/denon_dvda1ud_1.shtml

The sad thing is, the review was written by dvd/blu ray lovers, so no usefull information on the sound quality of the SACD part.
They made the machine recode the output to 7.1 and give their opion on that.
It does do everything, dvd, blu ray, dvd-audio and SACD.

Hallo Marc, spaar jij nog sacd's?
Heb je sacd's die je eventueel wilt ruilen of verkopen?
Groetjes Roelof

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