Compact DIsc is a mature know-how now, effectively into its fourth decade of offering digital comfort – and lately, stress from music streamers and streaming providers means CDs are extra inexpensive than ever earlier than. There are nonetheless substantial CD collections in properties up and down the nation – so why not benefit from them with one in every of this brace of fine-sounding objects? They’re one of the best pound-for-pound gamers you should purchase.
Underneath £1000
Marantz isn’t any stranger to producing fine-sounding CD gamers, and this new CD6006 UK Version (above) is yet one more.
It’s primarily based on final 12 months’s Award-winning CD6006, however options quite a few inner upgrades – headlined by enhancements to the ability provide for the digital-to-analogue circuitry and upgraded ELNA capacitors in sound-critical locations. Externally it’s unchanged, bar a small badge on the entrance panel. Construct high quality stays class-leading, and this machine has a slickness in use that usually prices a whole bunch extra to get.
Sound high quality? It’s detailed, refined and dynamic, with sufficient in the best way of refinement and pure heat to make system-matching a breeze. We will’t consider a sub-thousand pound participant we desire, which is de facto saying one thing when the CD6006 UK Version weighs in at simply £450.
£1000+
Transfer up in worth and Cyrus’s CDi comes into attain. This shoebox of a participant is a long-running favorite of ours – it takes our premium CD Participant Award for the fourth 12 months in a row. This 12 months it was up in opposition to some powerful new competitors, however gained via in the long run.
Cyrus CD gamers hardly appear to alter over time – the final massive revision was nearly a decade in the past, with the introduction of the Servo-Evolution slot-loading transport. The concept is to learn as a lot of the information off the disc as precisely as doable, so minimising the usage of error correction (which might degrade the sound). The CDi continues to be a brilliantly informative machine, delivering agility and dynamic subtleties with a talent no rival can match. It’s upgradable too, with the addition of a PSX-R2 outboard energy provide.
Each the Cyrus and Marantz are sensible gamers, in a position to compete with far costlier machines. Which one will win our coveted Product Of The Yr title? All will likely be revealed quickly.
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