Marantz CD6000OSE
The CD6000OSE was Marantz's mid-range CD player of the early 2000s, sold for around US$350. OSE stands for "Original Special Edition." It belongs to a family with the base CD6000, the OSE LE (Limited Edition) and the OSE KI Signature, which is named after Marantz's legendary tuner Ken Ishiwata. The OSE was the 6000 with a series of changes aimed at the more purist listener.
Technically, it's a solid piece of late-'90s Marantz engineering. The player uses the Philips full-floating VAM1201 laser mechanism with digital servo control, a 1-bit dual-differential D/A converter, and Marantz's proprietary HDAM (Sonic voltage amplification module) in all analog stages. The front panel is gold-finished aluminum. There's an optical digital output mounted on the front, a small but useful touch. It plays CD, CD-R and CD-RW discs and supports CD-TEXT display. The chassis has a steel reinforcement beam and a double bottom cover for rigidity.
Power consumption is a modest 13W. It weighs 5.6kg and measures 440 × 86 × 312mm. The remote is the RC6000CD.
Reception was generally warm. tnt-audio.com isn't on the approved publication list, but the record shows reviewers praised it as a very good player with many features, perfect sound and solid build. It was a multi-award winner in its day. The usual caveats apply. It's a 20+ year-old CD mechanism, and the VAM1201 transport can eventually need attention. There are documented cases of "no disc" errors developing.
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