Marantz - Link 10n, TT-15S1 Bundle

Experience Vinyl LPs, High-Resolution Playback, Whole-Home Audio, and Much More in Reference Fashion with the Marantz Link 10n Streaming Preamplifier and TT-15S1 Acrylic Turntable: Synergistic Bundle Saves You $1,250

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.

A winner of an Editors' Choice Award from The Absolute Sound and a Stereophile Recommended Product, Marantz slays the competition with the TT-15S1 turntable. Designed by Marantz and built by Clearaudio, TT-15S1 is a contoured acrylic table outfitted with an outboard motor, a thick inert acrylic platter on an inverted bearing, special anti-resonance isolation feet, and a sophisticated tonearm with an anodized aluminum armwand.

Yet what makes this analog package an even better value is the inclusion of the fantastic Clearaudio Virtuoso Ebony cartridge ($1,200 value). Backed by our Satisfaction Guarantee, TT-15S1 offers sound quality on par with 'tables that cost twice its price.

"Link 10n has a feature set and a sonic performance that will satisfy both the tech-head and the pure audiophile. With its inherent rock-solid capabilities, formidable sonic performance (with further gains available via its transparent digital EQ features), along with its elegant styling and luxurious build quality, the Link 10n stands as yet another triumph in Marantz’s prestigious 10 series."
—SoundStage!

"The TT-15S1 has an attractive, jewel-like appearance that's pleasing to the touch. It also proved to be a more than competent performer, quiet and surprisingly well damped. The real star of the show is the supplied Clearaudio Virtuoso Wood Ebony cartridge (output 3.3mV), which gives the TT-15 a startlingly full, coherent, dynamic sound. The cartridges overall tonal picture was remarkably coherent from top to bottom."
—Michael Fremer, Stereophile, Recommended Product

"The Marantz combo is a lot closer to more expensive ensembles than one might expect – everything is well executed and remarkably so at the price. The [TT-15] is outstanding, nearly unique even, in its ease and accuracy of setup. This system is clean-tracking, low in distortion, detailed, low in noise and high in resolution, pitch stable, and musically agreeable."
—Robert E. Greene, The Absolute Sound, Editors' Choice Award Winner