![]() ![]() Audio Note CDT One/II : £ POA at manufacturers request Available with either a black acrylic or silver aluminium fascia. The CDT Two/II uses a front loading Philips CDM Pro mechanism. It offers a very wide range of connection options including XLR (AES/EBU), coaxial S/PDIF (via a phono/RCA) and Toslink optical. Much like the filterless DACs we champion, it takes digital replay to a level which seems impossible to achieve through other means. That’s not to say the sound is lacking in dynamics or excitement - quite the opposite in fact, the sound is incredibly involving. There’s a tremendous sense of flow, of musicians playing together and interacting, and a sense of analogue like freedom to the sound. Anyone familiar with a good turntable will instantly recognise the extra realism they reproduce. The sound of these transports is very special, but quite difficult to describe on paper. The TL5 has the motor drive belt mounted inside the CD compartment, making it incredibly simple to change the drive belt (on the very rare occasions when it is required) as no tools are needed. 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). Please call Wong Tatt Yew at 019-2679087 for more details.Featuring the gloriously retro styling of the classic Leak design, the CDT is a high quality slot loading CD transport. By Lam Seng FattĪudio Note UK products are sold in Malaysia by Audio Note Malaysia. Looks like we will have to wait for further announcements on its price, availability and, of course, its name. The stabilizer disc is also made of wood. Final release will be some time towards the end of January 2021, more information to follow in the new year!” No digital source has ever sounded this close to analogue. to market belt-drive CD players/transports.Ī few days ago, Audio Note UK posted on its Facebook page: “Our new belt drive CD transport developed by Audio Note’s own ‘Q’ Darko Greguras (James Bond reference, look it up) is finished, and the lucky beta-test customers are thoroughly amazed by the performance. The yet-to-be-named CD transport will be released by the end of January next year, about eight weeks from now.Īudio Note UK will join other manufacturers like CEC, Parasound, Burmester and B.M.C. In this current age of streaming music and declining sales of CDs, Audio Note UK has decided to launch a belt-drive CD transport. The Audio Note belt-drive CD transport uses Permali wood. ![]()
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