![]() What continues to make Marantz products top of their class is that they are crafted by ‘sound masters’. The Audio Consolette helped launch what would later that year become the Marantz Audio Company. Like many creators that have revolutionized their field, the brand’s first home music system was formed from a labour of love and a lack of products in circulation that met the founder’s standards.Īnd so, thanks to his electrical engineering skills and passion for music, The Audio Consolette, an at-home Hi-Fi pre-amp was born. However, unless you’re specifically interested in its slightly better sound quality with CD, there’s little to justify the Marantz’s price premium over the otherwise identical Denon.Marantz was founded in New York in 1953 by sound engineer Saul Marantz. Overall, the UD7006 remains just as compelling as ever, not least because of its new, more competitive price. The Marantz has no truck with online movie streaming, and it won’t handle FLAC music files, although it sounds fine with good-quality AAC and WAV content. With streaming, once again, it’s a case of ‘Okay, but must try harder’. Switch to surround sound music and the margin of difference narrows, while movie sound, particularly when delivered via HDMI, is indistinguishable between the two players.Īs we noted with the Denon, the UD7006 endows your discs with more detail, drive and scale than you’d get from a budget player, despite the fact that, in theory, your AV amplifier bears the lion’s share of the responsibility for the sounds you hear. With the Ramones’ rip-roaring Sheena Is A Punk Rocker, there’s an infectious swagger to its approach, plus a welcome injection of bassline energy, suggesting that the player has a little more sparkle in stereo than the Denon DBP-2012UD. The Marantz is just as accomplished sonically. That’s great news if you’ve a large collection of DVDs to go with your burgeoning stock of Blu-rays. It produces dense, largely noiseless backgrounds and solid blocks of colour with Cars 2 on DVD, and keeps motion inconsistencies and shimmering edges well in check. Like the Denon, the Marantz particularly impresses when asked to upscale DVD to 1080p. The film’s stately camera pans are handled in an assured fashion, too The epic vistas are wonderfully vivid, with consistent, noise-free backgrounds and beautifully crisp details. ![]()
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