3/23/2023 0 Comments Audionote cd transport![]() ![]() This stand alone Red Book CD player is, to put it mildly, astonishingly good. Product: Audio Note CDT Zero/II CD Transport Black RemoteProduct SKU: 42892Serial Number: 139Voltage: 120VCosmetic Description: 9/10 Excellent condition. The CD5.1x uses our own in-house designed and manufactured digital transformers silver wound for the Transport side and copper wound for the DAC side. Audio Note transports have always been held in high esteem by the audiophile community and the Zero is no exception. The analogue output stage uses a combination of 1 x 5814a and 1 x 5687WB valves, feeding a pair of our world-renowned output transformers, using SHiB cores with copper primaries and secondaries.Ī mix of our own 0.5 Watt and 1 Watt non- magnetic Tantalum resistors are used in all critical areas, as are our own custom Audio Note (UK) foil / Mylar and electrolytic capacitors. The power supply is a valve rectified and regulated design, using a 6X5 and ECL82. The CD5.1x features the top-loading Philips CD Pro 2LF CD mechanism, which we custom modify and improve in-house, bringing the performance of this already excellent mechanism up to a standard that is truly in a class of its own. Turntable Audio Note Produce Vibration Free High Torque Belt Drive Turntables in Three Series. The CDT 4 was connected to the DAC 4 with a Vovox XLR cable, and the DAC 4 to my tube pre-/power amp combo or transistor integrated (MM-Audio) with Gregitek interconnects (RCA). Never before has it been possible to achieve such quite astonishingly superior levels of digital replay from a single chassis, integrated design. This all in mind I set out to listen to the 30 000 euro CD player comprising the CDT 4 transport and the DAC 4 Balanced. The CD5.1x is a completely new machine which elevates the one-box CD player to hitherto unknown levels of performance. As such, the DAC is 18 bits, and will, therefore, truncate all higher sampling rate signals. The final machine became significantly more than that. As mentioned above, The Audio Note DACs are designed with no oversampling, upsampling, or other such corrective measures and no filtering whatsoever, so what you hear from the transport is the raw data from the CD with the clock encoded on the CD. We started with the concept of combining elements of our CDT-Three transport and DAC3.1x/II Balanced DAC with a careful selection of improved components. However, a single unconnected balanced / XLR output socket is fitted to the chassis as standard, and this connection option can be specified by the customer at the time of ordering, if required.The CD5.1x is the latest in our line of one-box integrated Red Book CD players. The CDT-Five is equipped as standard with 1 x single ended / RCA 75 Ohm digital output, as we find this offers the best form of connection for the valve digital output stage. after I did most of my listening for this review, I went back and looked at what Id written about the Audio Note CD-4.1x. All silver-wired, Black Gate capacitors everywhere, Audio Note (UK) PALLAS digital interconnect used for internal digital signal transfer. Valve digital output stage with valve rectified power supply, custom designed and built output transformer. Whilst the rest of the audiophile world continues it delusional and ultimately doomed love affair with the currently fashionable crop of what are claimed to be 'high resolution' computer sources, we at Audio Note (UK) continue to. For those looking for the best possible sound quality in a single, small but perfectly formed package, there is no superior choice than the CD Zero. Top loading in-house custom modified Philips CD Pro2LF mechanism mounted on sprung sub-chassis, providing vibration-free operation. Our most cost effective Red Book CD playback system for the discerning music lover. No expense had been spared in any area, and we have used the finest possible components and materials available to construct this truly outstanding, Reference class CD Transport. The CDT Five has been specifically engineered for sonic performance rather than technical specification, and fulfils all Audio Note (UK) Level 5 criteria. ![]()
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