To solve these issues CEC use a belt drive assembly to reduce the transmission of noise from the motor, the disc is held in place with a weighty clamp and that spins on top of a very high quality bearing - much like the one you’d find in a good turntable. Most CD players use a motor to directly drive the disc from underneath, this will couple vibration into the disc and rely upon the basic motor bearings to support the spinning disc. There’s something very special about CEC transports, and this is almost certainly attributable to their radical belt drive mechanism. Audio Note CDT Zero/II : £ POA at manufacturers request It is available with either black acrylic or silver aluminium fascia. The CDT Zero/II transport features anin- house custom modified Philips front loading CD mechanism, combined with a custom copper wired digital output transformer. Pro- ject DS2T CD Transport, as above with Walnut, Eucalyptus or Rosewood side cheeks: £629.00 Pro- ject DS2T CD Transport in Black or Silver without wood side cheeks: £559.00 Three digital outputs are provided - coaxial, optical and AES/EBU, meaning that it should work with almost any DAC. It is housed in a discreet aluminium case with fetching wood side cheeks and uses a slot loading suspended CD mechanism. The DS2T is an excellent compact and affordable CD transport. Leak CDT with Walnut wood enclosure: £599.95 A chunky linear power supply is a nice bonus at this price level too.ĭimensions: 302 x 117.1 x 278 (Silver), 326 x 145.1 x 283 (Walnut) It features a optical and coaxial S/PDIF outputs and also a USB socket on the front into which can pull WMA, MPS, WAV, and AAC files from a storage device (at 44 and 48kHz). What an amazing couple of hours.Featuring the gloriously retro styling of the classic Leak design, the CDT is a high quality slot loading CD transport. And never did it sounded weak, collapsed or distorted. I could feel it and I felt it to the bones! The thundering drums shook me and energy across the room blasted the horns up to realistic scale. That was exactly what I experience with this album. It was very easy to see and feel the musicians in the orchestra, talk about being in a bubble with music. Musicians were almost in color, in front of me and way back in the soundstage. Mahler’s Symphony No.5 is not an easy task for any system, but the Audio Note system was breathing to its fullest and it really did portrait the Symphony with a realism I have rarely encountered. Again the Audio Note system present what I noticed with other music genres it doesn’t care what genre you play, it will bring the music to your listening room with life and beauty, it will engulf you and let you see right into the music and the quality to the performance. The music was at some points scary and sometimes sad. Powerful and full of glory, silence and extended dynamic range were the keywords for what the Audio Note system was presenting me with. Not a smart move by me as I woke up the wife and kid. Leonard Bernstein started off the listening session a late Friday night. From silent to loud it was without a break or delay and everything in between seems so natural and life like. I’ve really found myself astonished over the system’s ability to deliver dynamic contrast. The system just played seamlessly, almost limitless in terms of dynamics. Even when pushing the limits of the Conquest´s 18 watts the speakers didn’t fall apart or for that matter lose control. There are no muddy or flappy bass, just a deep and very well controlled pressured attack with so much decay and detail that it is hard to understand how it is possible from a relatively small two way design, especially given the overall efficiency. The 8” woofer from the AN/E SPe HE was doing some silly and unexpected punches and to be honest it is a bit surreal that this is possible with just ONE 8” woofer in each speaker. Bass kicked in with a punch but still firmly controlled. The bell playing in the start of the track was highly extended and with very crisp attacks. Shaman's Dream - The Four Elements – A very non audiophile recording that sounded just brilliant.
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