Marantz CD 70 CD Player with High-Performance DAC and USB Playback

Combining decades of innovative, award-winning disc-player design with refined, modern mastery, the CD 70 is engineered for the contemporary music collector. Featuring expertly crafted components, a high-performance DAC, CD 70 ensures your favorite Compact Discs always sound exceptional. Whether it’s rediscovering a classic from your collection or enjoying a brand-new release—or even listening in high-resolution via USB-A playback—you’ll hear every instrument, note, and nuance with uncompromising clarity and musical warmth.

The Marantz Signature Sound

The Marantz signature sound is defined by warmth, nuance and authenticity. Decades of refinement ensure a natural and balanced presentation that allows listeners to experience their music with greater depth, emotion and realism.

Enhanced Digital Performance

A new high-performance DAC is designed to extract more detail, clarity and depth from every recording. Whether rediscovering a familiar album or exploring something new, it reveals greater nuance and precision—bringing listeners closer to the original performance.

High-Res USB Playback

High-resolution playback via the front USB input supports a wide range of digital formats, including FLAC, ALAC and DSD. This extends performance beyond physical discs, offering flexibility while maintaining exceptional sound quality.

Headphone Amplifier

A fully discrete headphone amplifier, built with HDAM circuitry, delivers dedicated performance for personal listening. With selectable gain and refined tuning, it provides clarity, control, and musicality whether listening through headphones or speakers.

Timeless Marantz Design

Marantz design heritage is expressed through a refined, modern aesthetic. Premium materials, balanced proportions, and subtle detailing create a product that feels both timeless and contemporary—designed to complement any listening space.

Specifications

Features

• CD Compatibility: CD / CD-R/RW / SA-CD / WMA / MP3 / AAC: Yes / Yes / No / Yes / Yes / No
• CD-Text / SA-CD Text / ID3 Tag / WMA Meta Tag / AAC Meta data: No / No / Yes / Yes / Yes
• Data Disc Compatibility: DSD / WAV / ALAC: No / No / No
• DAC Master Clock Design: Yes
• HDAM version: HDAM / HDAM SA2
• Power Transformer: Toroidal / El: Yes / No
• High Grade Audio Components: Yes
• Customised Components: Yes
• Symmetric circuit layout: Yes
• Extra metal plate for chassis strengthening: Yes
• Digital out off / Audio EX Mode: Yes / No
• Headphone: Standard / Buffer / Current feedback: No / Yes (HDAM-SA2) / No

Others

• Selectable filter: CD / SA-CD / DAC-Mode: Yes / No / No
• Separated rectifier circuit for analogue and digital circuitry: Yes
• Display: Dimmer / Off: Yes / Yes
• VFD display: Yes

Playback

• Program Play (CD / SA-CD): 25
• Repeat: Yes
• Random Play: Yes

Inputs Outputs

• Analogue Out (Cinch): 2ch
• Digital Optical In / Out: 0 / 1
• Digital Coaxial In / Out: 0 / 1
• Gold Plated Cinch: Yes
• USB Audio (Front) / Made for iPod / Made for iPhone®: Yes / No / No
• USB-A: FLAC / WAV / AIFF / ALAC / DSD: Yes
• D-Bus: Yes
• Headphone Out: Yes
• Headphone Volume Control: Yes

Specifications

• Mechanism: Yes
• D/A Conversion: Yes
• DAC IC, Digital Filter, Noise Shaper: Yes
• Frequency Response: 2 Hz - 20 kHz
• Dynamic Range: 100 dB
• Signal to Noise Ratio: 110 dB
• Total Harmonic Distortion: 0.0016%
• Channel separation: 98 dB

General

• Available Colors: Black
• Metal Front Panel: Yes
• Remote Control: RC006PMCD
• Power Consumption in W: 32
• Standby Consumption in W: 0.3
• Auto Power off: Yes
• Detachable Power Cable: Yes
• Maximum Dimensions (W x D x H) in inches: 17.40 × 13.82 × 4.29
• Weight in lbs.: 14.3
• Carton Maximum Dimensions (W x D x H) in inches: 20.55 × 18.46 × 7.48
• Carton Weight (inc. product) in lbs: 19.4

Supporting Documentation

• Owner's Manual
• Information Sheet