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Tap into Reference Performance: Japanese-Made Marantz Link 10n Streaming Preamplifier/Network Player Offers Breathtaking Sound, Perfectionist-Minded Build Quality, and Modern Flexibility
Marantz’s most advanced streaming preamplifier, Link 10n, seeks to fulfill one mission: deliver reference performance time and again. Engineered, designed, and manufactured in the company’s Shirakawa factory in Japan, this 73.4-pound bruiser offers everything even the most demanding audiophile could want from a combination network player and command center.
What’s on offer? Immersive high-res playback up to DSD 11.2MHz and 32-bit/384kHz PCM; updated MMM-Conversion in the place of a DAC; built-in HEOS for whole-home audio potential; coaxial, optical, USB-A, USB-B, DAC, and HDMI-ARC inputs; a pair of balanced XLR inputs; an auxiliary analog input as well a phenomenal MM/MC phonostage with switchable impedance; a 2.1-channel subwoofer output; and beautiful cosmetics that underscore its perfectionist-minded construction.
About that build: Link 10n features triple-layered, copper-plated architecture crowned by a machined aluminum chassis with a 12mm-thick top cover, 15.8mm-thick side cover, and triple-layer rear panel that kill vibrations dead. An elegant, full-color HD OLED display lets you see everything you need when switching inputs or changing the volume levels. Newly revised HDAM circuitry, a toroidal transformer, and eight-layer PCBs do the heavy lifting inside.
Tuned by the Marantz Sound Master, the 7.56 x 17.3 x 18.58-inch (HWD) Link 10n also contains tone controls, a jitter reducer, a selectable digital filter, and discrete headphone circuitry. Compatible with Apple Siri and Google Assistant voice commands, the extra-flexible Link 10n comes with an aluminum remote control and lets you choose from 20 dimmable steps to dial in the front display to your exact preferences.
Most importantly, this exquisite machine helps reproduce music, TV content, and gaming in extraordinary sound marked by alluring purity, full-range dynamics, pinpoint detail, three-dimensional texture, and a combination of accuracy, punch, smoothness, and airiness that can only be described as naturally musical. An ideal match with the other components in the no-holds-barred Marantz 10 Series, Link 10n personifies luxury audio.
To learn more about Link 10n or any 10 Series model, please reach out to a Music Direct audio consultant at 312-433-0200.
Marantz Musical Mastering Process Is Better Than a Conventional DACRather than down-convert ultra-high-resolution files to suit a conventional digital to analog converter, as happens in most designs, SA-10 upconverts everything to DSD256 via Marantz Musical Mastering – Conversion. Two dedicated master clocks ensure all digital signals are upsampled directly to DSD 256 – four times the SACD standard – without any need for sample-rate conversion. Two filter settings allow the listener to shape the sound. The other half of Marantz Musical Mastering – MMM-Stream – prepares the DSD256 signal for analog output to an amplifier. Based on technology going back to the early days of Bitstream conversion, it enables an ultra-simple conversion process. The output from the MMM-Conversion process is, in effect, already an analog signal – or, a very high-frequency stream of single pulses. With all the hard digital work done, this stream needs nothing more than a very high-quality low-pass filter to deliver the purest-possible analog audio output.
