Marantz SA-KI RUBY CD Player with DAC

Marantz has been designing and making amplifiers for more than 65 years, and for 40 of those years the products have reflected expertise of Ken Ishiwata. To mark his four decades with the company, the SA-KI Ruby Super Audio CD (SACD) player has been developed and tuned by a highly experienced engineering team led by KI himself. And it arrives bearing Ken Ishiwata’s signature and a special Ruby motif. Features the same disc mechanisms that play SACDs, CDs and compilations on CD-ROM or DVD-ROM. The SA-KI Ruby includes an asynchronous USB input that handles formats up to PCM / DXD 384kHz/32bit and DSD11.2MHz.

Highlights

• Marantz-proprietary SACD/CD mechanism “SACDM-3” designed purely for audio

• Playback of SACD/CD and compilations on CD-ROM and DVD-ROM

• Asynchronous USB input for hi-res audio up to PCM/DXD 384kHz/32bit and DSD11.2MHz

• Isolation of USB and digital inputs to block noise from connected sources

• Innovative Marantz Musical Mastering “MMM-Stream” up-sampling to DSD and filtering

• Custom-designed 1-bit direct “MMM–Conversion” from DSD to analog

• New analog output stage with Marantz HDAM-SA3 technology and low impedance output

• Power supply with toroidal transformer

• Dedicated headphone amplifier with all-discrete HDAM-SA2 construction

• Laser-engraved Ken Ishiwata signature and Ruby motif, marking Ishiwata’s 40-year Marantz legacy

• Engineered and extensively tuned by legendary Marantz sound master Ken Ishiwata and his team, drawing on more than 35 years of Marantz expertise in CD players