With 4 separate Awards within the CD gamers and transports class, and costs starting from £280 to £1050, our Product of the Yr is the Cyrus CDi.
The CDi is a particular participant within the true Cyrus custom. It continues to be one of the best we’ve heard wherever close to this value, and for that motive, it retains its Product of the Yr title for an additional 12 months.
Our favorite price range CD participant may also be acquainted to readers: that is the third time in a row that the superb Marantz CD6005 has gained this Award.
The CD6005 is an outstanding product, with an aura of sophistication. Its sonic presentation marries refinement and drama beautifully, and has an understanding of the guts of the music.
Marantz’s domination is nothing short of miraculous. A yr on, there’s nonetheless nothing at this value to higher the CD6005 – it is merely one of the best price range CD participant in the marketplace.
A CD transport concentrates on studying the data held on a compact disc with out expending effort in turning that digital sign into an analogue output, in contrast to a CD participant. All you want to do is add (or already personal) an exterior DAC.
The speculation goes that utilizing separate items of hi-fi package to do particular person jobs will present a superior sound, and that is actually the case with our winner within the Finest CD price range transport class, the Cambridge Audio CXC.
It is a properly made piece of apparatus, and it seems and feels value each penny of the £300 you’ll pay for it.
Cyrus scooped its second win within the Finest CD transport over £500 class with its CD t, the most recent addition to Cyrus’s lengthy line of extremely achieved merchandise.
Going straight to the highest of its class, the Cyrus CD t delivers a effective efficiency that’s troublesome to criticise at this value, demonstrating spectacular accuracy, velocity and precision with out ever sounding scientific.
The Cyrus CD t is an exceptionally gifted transport. Sure, you’ll want so as to add a very good stand-alone DAC, however the CD t is definitely worth the hassle. In addition to providing an easy, musical pay attention, the extent of transparency, readability and perception is unrivalled at this value.
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