Marantz SA-12SE CD Player

Special Edition Super Audio CD Player with DAC

Key Features

Pure Marantz Sound

HDAM technology, combined with optimized circuit design layout and carefully selected components, provides exceptional sound quality and performance.

Sound Master Tuned

Engineered and extensively tuned by a team drawing on more than 35 years of Marantz CD and SACD design knowledge.

Your Music Your Way

Enjoy masterful playback from your SACD, CD collection, and more, the way you expect from a Marantz

Asynchronous USB Input

Marantz’s innovative and proprietary SACD/CD mechanism, “SACDM-3,” is designed purely for the best CD performance.

CDs, SACDs and Beyond

The SA-12SE goes so much further than just disc playback: it’s also a fully-functional digital-to-analogue converter for music stored on a home computer, as well as having conventional digital inputs for existing source components. Those conventional inputs – optical and coaxial – can handle your music files up to 192kHz/24bit. The USB-DAC supports all files up to DSD11.2.

More Than a DAC

Built with an integrated DAC, the SA-12SE features an all-new disc transport mechanism that re-engineers the digital-to-analogue conversion. Taking full advantage of the 1-bit conversion technology, the SA-12SE incorporates innovative new filtering and up-conversion, providing a simple yet elegant solution.

Marantz Musical Mastering: MMM-Stream and MMM-Conversion

At the heart of digital audio in the SA-12SE lies DSD. PCM and DXD inputs are up-converted to DSD at 11.2MHz using the proprietary MMM-Stream converter within the player, and the high-frequency signal produced is processed by the unique MMM-Conversion stage, used in place of a conventional DAC, to produce the analog output.

High Current Power Supply

The power supply of the SA-12SE features a large high-current toroidal power transformer with OFC (oxygen-free copper) secondary wires, along with high-speed, high-current Schottky Barrier Diodes in the rectifier stage for the purest DC voltage output.

Built to Perform

Like the complementary PM-12SE integrated amplifier, the SA-12SE Super Audio CD player is constructed to the highest standards, with a front panel made from thick, heavy, non-magnetic aluminum to eliminate interference. Single-layer nickel-plated matching copper RCA terminals in the SA-12SE outperform the terminals of competitors and offer an exemplary listening experience.

Features

CD Compatibility: CD / CD-R/RW / SA-CD / WMA / MP3 / AAC      Yes / Yes / Yes / Yes / Yes / Yes

CD-Text / SA-CD Text / ID3 Tag / WMA Meta Tag / AAC Metadata No / Yes / Yes / Yes / Yes

Data Disc Compatibility: DSD / WAV / ALAC          <=5.6 / 192 / 96

DAC operation mode: USB B type / Coax / Optical              Yes / Yes / Yes

Asynchronous mode rear USB    Yes

Bit-perfect transmission Yes

USB-B DSD Audio Streaming (DoP): DSD2.8 / DSD5.6         <=DSD11.2

Signal isolator for DAC Mode operation: Yes

HDAM version   HDAM SA2 + HDAM SA3

Power Transformer: Toroidal / El               Yes / No

High Grade Audio Components Yes

Customised Components             Yes

Symmetric circuit layout               Yes

Copper Plated Chassis    No