"Best CD transport £500+, Awards 2015. A remarkably talented and enjoyable CD transport, you’ll just need a DAC."
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A multi-regulated power supply allows the Servo Evolution software to work with miniscule precision, pulling huge amounts of data from your disc and transporting that to a separate DAC without adding or taking away anything from the music itself.
A complex re-clocking circuit with close tolerance crystal VCO is used, resulting in sound that is pure and full.
In tests it produces industry leading read error rates, which is why the CD t is often named the best CD transport in its price range.
Partner this fantastic CD transport with the 82DAC integrated amplifier and digital-to-analogue converter or the Pre₂ DAC.
The CD t can also be upgraded to our CD Xt Signature for the ultimate CD player. For more information on our Signature range please read here.[/expand]

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With multiple digital inputs and outputs, the EVOLUTION 100CD is one of the most well equipped and seriously high-end DAC products on the market, despite its competitive price.

The Evolution 100CD player will work very well in the following system. Please note the speakers should be selected to match the size of your listening room.
The EVOLUTION 100CD is a high-end DAC, with built-in CD transport and not just a CD Player. It can accept a total of seven digital sources, including Bluetooth. It also has two digital outputs and a custom Creek RC bus to extend the Infra-Red Sensor or synchronise it with its matching amplifier.

To fully realise the potential sonic benefits of streaming hi-resolution 24/192 music files from a computer, asynchronous USB 2 support is vital. The EVOLUTION 100CD circuitry works with various computer platforms but requires a custom ASIO driver to enable it to work with PCs. The ASIO and USB 2 driver can both be downloaded from this webpage.

The highest quality audio output is available via balanced or un-balanced sockets for maximum flexibility. Balanced outputs are recommended if long interconnects are needed. After extensive listening tests, Creek Audio’s staff selected the best sounding output circuitry before finalising the design. Un-balanced outputs are via heavy duty gold plated, solid RCA sockets.

If discreet headphone listening is required, there is a built-in high performance headphone amplifier capable of driving most types of headphones, (8 to 2k Ohms recommended range). Volume is adjustable from the front panel or by remote control.

To maintain top performance, the custom CDM-1 slot-drive CD transport is clocked by a separate, extremely accurate ultra-low jitter, master-clock, situated right next to the DAC for bit-perfect performance.

The EVOLUTION 100CD uses a powerful 30 Watt toroidal mains transformer to maintain a low magnetic field and excellent noise performance. It features three separate windings, to power its analogue and digital circuitry and custom CD transport. Multiple low-impedance power supply capacitors and voltage regulators are used to optimise the power supplies’ performance. Organic polymer capacitors are used to decouple critical analogue and digital circuits and high-grade WIMA polypropylene capacitors are used in the output filters.

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You’ve never really heard your CDs until you’ve listened to them on a CD i.
CD is the format of choice for many audiophiles. When listening to recordings from the likes of Chesky Records or Opus3, it’s hard to argue against that – but CD hardware needs to be given the respect it deserves.

"We’re hugely impressed with the CD i and we’re confident you won’t find a more entertaining, more revealing player until you near the £1500 mark."
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The CD i is one of our proudest achievements as a company.
Our CD players are better because they generate far less background noise than most. We call this our SE or Servo-Evolution technology. The principle itself is quite simple. Usually the laser mechanism (servo) which reads the data from a disc makes tiny movements side to side quite quickly to re-read miss-read data – this create ‘servo noise’ and that impacts the ‘noise-floor’ limiting the quality of the sound output.
The principle objective with our CD players is to extract the data on the disc as accurately as possible the first time – and that is only possible through some very careful design and calibration in both the hardware and software elements of the player.
The CD i is our ‘integrated’ model in the range, including a built in ‘Digital to Analogue’ converter, converting that digital data into a beautiful analogue signal, using an extremely refined 32bit DAC.
The circuit of the CD i has been designed in 2 discrete sections, allowing the product to be upgradeable through the addition of our separate power supply (the PSX R2). This addition completely isolates the DAC section of the product, improving timing and eliminating any intermodulation which can impact the delicate analogue signals output. Whilst not necessary for outstanding performance, this addition is a valuable upgrade for the serious audiophile.[/expand]

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"while I can't attest to specific synergy effects, the AADrive's design, build and performance all seemed ideally matched to impress at a high level.

"The Audio Analogue AAdrive is essentially a high-quality data supplier designed to match the AAdac for people who want to play CDs. That sounds absolutely clean in the station wagon."

"“I think the AAdrive and AAdac are both “something of a high-end star combination in the making. They deserve to be at the front end of some extremely high-grade audio… making this one of the go-to digital front-ends to beat at a price."

"In truth, however, I was surprised at how good the Audio Analogue combination sounded, and I really shouldn’t be. I know what that Italian audio company is capable of, musically speaking, because it has shown itself to be a maker of fine components in the past. It can do to digital what it does so well to analogue shouldn’t be a surprise. However, the fact it does it so well, making this one of the go-to digital front-ends to beat at a price still comes as something of a surprise, in part because the AAdac, in particular, takes on an extremely contended market. And wins.
Finally, the AAdrive and AAdac combination taken together is worthy of note, as they too represent one of the best ways of making a good sound from CD for the high-end enthusiast without £50k to burn."

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CYRUS CDt-XR IS A DEVICE that gives you a lot of fun. It offers an organised, extremely engaging presentation, so we can listen to any type of disc, regardless of how they were recorded and released. The listener’s attention is focused on the midrange. This is a pastel sound, but without any softening, let alone “veiling”. The CDt-XR shows that digital audio continues to evolve and that the Compact Disc has a lot to offer, is easy to use, and the music we buy really belongs to us.”

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MSB Sistem (DAC + transport + Power Supply)

MSB Universal Media transport UMT 5+

MSB Diamond Power Base V

MSB  Analog DAC cu volume control, USB module si I2S Pro Module.

Manufactured in California

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