(I’ve reviewed several components with voice support, and have never found this feature very useful.) The SACD 30n supports the Amazon Alexa, Apple Siri, and Google Assistant voice-assistant protocols, as well as the less-well-known Josh.ai. And you can listen to Internet Radio, with or without the HEOS app.
You can also stream to the SACD 30n music stored on your mobile device. The player supports Apple AirPlay 2, so you can stream via AirPlay from an iOS device or Mac, or an iTunes library on a Windows PC. With the HEOS app installed on an Android or iOS device, you can play music from, say, Amazon Music HD and Tidal through the SACD 30n. HEOS is a high-resolution multi-room audio technology developed by Denon-Marantz, and is used in the two brands' network music products. And it has Bluetooth, so you can stream from a smartphone. You can connect a computer to its USB Type-B port and use it as a USB DAC, and other components to its coaxial and TosLink S/PDIF inputs.
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A two-channel disc player, it also has a full slate of digital inputs, all with support for high-resolution audio. Many audiophiles have large collections on those formats, and even as they turn to streaming, they want to keep playing their shiny discs.Īimed at these people are such components as Marantz’s SACD 30n SACD/CD player ($2599, all prices USD). In that same period, revenues from streaming grew 12%, to $4.8 billion-85% of recording-industry revenues in the US.īut while fewer and fewer music-lovers are buying CDs and SACDs, that doesn’t mean they’re not playing them. According to the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), US sales of CDs fell 45.2% (units) and 47.6% (dollars) in the first half of 2020, compared to the same period a year earlier. Is the Compact Disc on its last legs? It sure looks that way.