CD Players
Marantz CD5004
The CD5004 is a excellent entry level cd player, offering very good performance and build quality at an extremely reasonable price. It is also well featured with a Headphone socket (including its own volume control), digital coaxial and optical outputs as well as the standard analogue outputs, and the obligatory remote control of course. It is available in black or champagne gold finishes.
Marantz CD5004 CD player: £199.90
The CDD 201V is the first CD player from the famous Sansui brand name, marking their
return to the Hifi market in impressive style. Its sound is extremely good for a
product at this price level, in fact I feel it competes extremely well with players
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It is available in Black or silver finish, and has both coaxial and optical digital output.
Sansui CDD 201V CD player: £199.00
Project CD Box
The Project CD Box is an absolutely tiny CD player that has a sound that belies it’s diminutive dimensions (which number just 3.6cm tall, 20.5cm wide and 15.5cm deep). The small size is explained by the cunning use of a slot loading mechanism (in use in the picture below) and the unit comes complete with a separate power supply and remote control. It’s a natural partner for the Project Amp Box S, or in fact any system where space is limited. It is available with a black or silver fascia (as shown here).
Project CD Box CD Player: £300.00
Marantz CD6004
The CD6004 is a remarkably high performing player at a very reasonable price. Typical of Marantz, it has a lively sound that is balanced by an appealingly warm midrange along with good detail retrieval. It even caters for ipod connection with its front mounted USB connector. It is available in either black or champagne gold.
Marantz CD6004 CD player: £299.95
Teac PD-
The Teac PD-
Teac PD-
Project CD Box SE
The Project CD Box SE is a sonically improved version of the standard CD Box detailed further up this page. It is the same tiny width but taller at 7.6cm and a little deeper. The CD Box SE is a very impressive sounding CD player, it’s almost difficult to believe such a big and high quality sound can come from such a small box. It also has a digital output (coaxial) making it a very good choice for anyone wanting a high quality and small CD transport. It is available with either a silver or black fascia.
Project CD Box SE CD player £500.00
The next version of the Apollo is now here, called the Apollo-
Compared to the excellent previous version, the new Apollo-
Rega Apollo-
Consonance CD120 Linear
We’re thrilled to be able to offer a CD player at this price which has dispensed
with the digital filter and over sampling -
It uses a pair of 16bit TDA1543 DAC’s and a discrete J-
If you find most CD players overly sanitised and look for the same adrenalin rush you get from your vinyl source then this player could be just the antidote you’re looking for.
Consonance CD120 Linear CD Player: £795.00
Talk Electronics Thunder 2.2SE
The Thunder 2.2 SE is the latest version of this beautifully made player, the ‘SE’ modifications moving performance even further forward than its predecessor. The end result is a very enjoyable sound that has an authoritative presentation without loss of subtle detailing.
The design uses two separate toroidal transformers (see picture below), one for the digital stages and one for analogue, with a lot of attention paid to the separation of ground paths between the various stages. It has connections for both balanced (XLR) and single ended (phono) outputs, as well as optical (Toslink) and coaxial (phono) digital outputs. There’s also a connector to allow it to be upgraded with the external whirlwind power supply. It is available in either Silver or Black finish.
Talk Electronics Thunder 2.2SE CD player: £1,295
Audio Note CD Zero
The CD Zero is Audio Notes smallest CD player, but inside the diminutive case are
two mains transformers and triode based output stage using the 6111WA sub-
Audio Note CD Zero CD player: £POA at manufacturers request
Product preview: Rega Saturn-
The Saturn-
We will have one of these on demo as soon as they’re launched (sometime in the second quarter of 2013), more details to follow.
Rega Saturn-
Consonance Reference CD2.2 Linear
The CD2.2 Linear is a very special player, it uses our preferred combination of non-
It’s possible to choose between sampling frequencies of 44.1kHz or 88.2kHz via the remote control which makes a subtle difference and allows the user to choose which sounds best in their system. A coaxial digital input is featured on the latest generation, enabling the DAC to be used with other digital sources too, which can switched from the remote or a switch on the rear panel.
The only real negative of this player is it suffers what must be one of the most
protracted burning in period of any player I can think of, and unless it has at least
50-
Consonance CD Reference 2.2 Linear CD player in Silver with Cherry or Walnut top slats: £1,695
Consonance CD Reference 2.2 Linear CD player in Black with Black aluminium top slats: £1,795
Below: Finish left to right: Cherry, Walnut, and black metal/fascia.
Audio Note CD1.1x
The very latest CD player from Audio Note. As you’d expect of Audio Note this is a non oversampling, filterless design (both analogue and digital) based around the 16 bit 1543 DAC. It uses a 6111WA sub miniature triode valve output stage, Beyschlag resistors and paper in oil coupling capacitors. It offers a sound that’s very difficult to beat at the price. Available with silver or black acrylic fascia.
Audio Note CD1.1x CD Player: £POA at manufacturers request
Consonance Droplet CDP 3.1 Linear
The ‘mini’ droplet (named as it’s quite a lot smaller than the original Droplet model introduced a few years ago) not only looks stunning but thanks to its filterless design and E88CC triode output stage also sounds as good as it looks. The case is made from a wood, aluminium and ceramic sandwich and discs are top loaded. It features a Superclock high performance digital clock for low levels of jitter and also has an coaxial digital input so you can use its internal DAC for other digital sources.
Consonance Droplet CDP3.1 Linear CD player: £2,295
Audio Note CD2.1x/II
The CD2.1x/II is essentially the same as the CD1.1x detailed above, but in keeping with Audio Note philosophy is features upgraded components including tantalum resistors, Blackgate capacitors and superior coupling capacitors. The performance of this player is simply astonishing, it has the superb texture and naturalness, almost reaching the giddy organic heights of their two box combinations. It is available with either a silver fascia or black acrylic.
Audio Note CD2.1x/II CD Player: £POA at manufacturers request
Audio Note CD3.1xV2
The CD3.1xV2 is the first of the larger chassis CD players from Audio Note. It features a modified Philips cd mechanism, the Analogue Devices AD1865 convertor running without oversampling and without a digital filter. The output stage uses ECC88 dual triodes, Audio Note copper foil paper in oil capacitors and tantalum resistors. It is available with either a black acrylic fascia (as shown above) or silver aluminium (below)
Audio Note CD3.1xV2 CD player: £POA at manufacturers request
Audio Note CD4.1x
The CD4.1x is a top loading player which effectively combines the CDT Two/II transport and DAC 2.1x digital to analogue converter into one box (please see the separate pages which detail these products more thoroughly). To reduce the problems inherent in one box players great attention has been invested in the power supplies to ensure that there is minimal coupling between the various stages. This makes the CD4.1x the ultimate one box solution for those that don’t have the space for a separate DAC and Transport. It is available with either a black acrylic fascia (as pictured) or brushed aluminium.
Audio Note CD4.1x CD player: £POA at manufacturers request
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