Reference Cd9 cd player

[wizard]

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$13000

 

[Steve Williams]

Has it been released yet

 

[LL21]

Intriguing set of options they've got displayed...very interested to know more.

 

[mep]

No DSD?

 

[Steve Williams]

you won't ever see DSD in ARC or so I have been told

 

[dafos]

you won't ever see DSD in ARC or so I have been told

Not if they continue to stick with the Philips cd pro mechanism. To do sacd they'd have to switch to an esoteric transport.

 

[microstrip]

Not if they continue to stick with the Philips cd pro mechanism. To do sacd they'd have to switch to an esoteric transport.

Many manufacturers consider that the current offer of SACD's is not enough to justify the inclusion of this format in a digital player. The capability to play DSD could be interesting in a piece with digital inputs, but considering that most DSD recordings have been converted to PCM during their creation the interest is mostly academic.

Do you know for sure if the CD9 has an USB input?

 

[DonH50]

Couple of new "digital" products listed on their website, though not the CD9 (yet): http://www.audioresearch.com/newproducts.html

 

[MarinJim]

Personally, with digital changing almost as much as IPhones and computers, I have gotten off the high priced digital bandwagon. But, I do love to read about them!

 

[microstrip]

Couple of new "digital" products listed on their website, though not the CD9 (yet): http://www.audioresearch.com/newproducts.html

Most of the time, the Audio Research database site http://www.arcdb.ws/ lists new ARC products much sooner that the company site. Even the new REF10 is not yet included in the ARC site.

 

[microstrip]

It has been posted on the AudioAficionado site that the BNC label on the front panel was a mistake - it will appear as USB in production units.

 

[DonH50]

Makes sense; BNC is a type of connector, not an interface standard.

 

[propa]

Who is going to buy this? It can't even play SACD?

 

[mmatuva]

My guess is that quite a few people (relatively speaking of course) will buy it. ARC has never produced an SACD player, so current ARC front end owners and a vast majority of people who don't own (and never will own) many/any SACDs will be the core market for this and will spring for it. Obviously, for those that built a collection of SACD, this is probably not going to be the product for them, but they probably already own an SACD player that they are happy with that they will continue to use.

 

[Steve Williams]

ARC won't ever produce an SACD player. Only Red Book

 

[Elberoth]

Never say never

I think we have to separate playing SACDs as a physical medium (which would need a different transport - not likely, unless Philips discontinues the CD-Pro2 drive) and DSD files over USB.

The later is more likely.

 

[MarinJim]

I like what Oppo is doing, for a lot less.