Cambridge Audio has lastly revealed the worth and a few specs for its long-awaited Evo CD transport, ending months of teased hints about its imminent arrival.
Here is all the pieces you should learn about it.
Evo CD: options and specs
The Evo CD will measure 317 x 89 x 352mm and weigh 5.3g. It is a transport (has no DAC built-in) which normally means the unit will have to be linked to an amplifier with a DAC built-in or exterior DAC. On this case, the Evo CD has been particularly designed to work with Cambridge Audio’s current Evo 75 and Evo 150 all-in-one gamers.
That is barely atypical as lots of the finest CD gamers we have examined, such because the Award-winning Marantz CD6007 and Cyrus CDi, are built-in gamers, whereas we have seen the emergence of all-in-one methods much like Evo that even have a CD participant integrated, such because the Technics SA-C600.
Cambridge Audio has additional confirmed Evo CD is designed to solely work with their Evo gamers, which could possibly be a problem for many who do not wish to purely use Cambridge merchandise of their hi-fi system (or do not personal an Evo already). Which is the one minor catch we have noticed thus far.
We additionally now comprehend it’ll assist multiformat playback and gapless playback. The CD-DA, CD-R, and CD-RW audio codecs are supported and it’ll have a 20W max energy consumption (0.5W on standby). Cambridge Audio additionally claims the S5 Servo used will supply higher error correction and quicker disc detection than competing methods, which ought to end in higher element retrieval.
Lastly, the Evo CD will work seamlessly with Cambridge’s StreamMagic app platform. This implies you can see the album paintings and different particulars in your smartphone/pill when enjoying them on the Evo CD.
Evo CD: what it seems to be like
The Evo CD is designed to match the aesthetics of the Evo all-in-one gamers and even consists of swappable facet panels.
You may see a sequence of photos detailing what the Cambridge Audio Evo CD seems to be like within the gallery beneath.
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Evo CD: value and launch date
Cambridge Audio is out there in “some” territories now, with it set to launch within the UK in two days on 18 Could. Guests to the Excessive Finish Munich 2023 this week will get to see the primary glimpse of the product on the present.
The Evo CD will retail for £999 within the UK, $1,199 within the US and AUD $1,999 in Australia. This makes it barely costlier than the pricing Cambridge Audio initially detailed when it first soft-unveiled the Evo CD.
The Evo CD was first teased in April 2021 alongside the launch of the Evo 75 and Evo 150. The CD transport was initially scheduled to launch that yr costing £799 / $950 / AU$1600.
Why Cambridge Audio made the Evo CD
Stuart George, CEO of Cambridge Audio, instructed What Hello-Fi? earlier this yr that the corporate is anticipating a CD revival, doubtlessly pushed by youthful listeners.
“CD is an fascinating one. I feel a part of the Renaissance for CD is individuals discovering music as a bodily kind and figuring out with being a music lover,” he says.
George added he believes CD’s revival will take a really totally different course to vinyl, which has loved a renaissance for almost a decade.
“[It’s different from] the place vinyl was 10 years in the past. Again then, vinyl was all low cost. It was in second-hand shops and you can decide issues up for not very a lot cash; but it surely was a little bit of a fortunate dip when it comes to what high quality the report was in while you received to it, and the way playable it was. The CD is a little more strong than that, so you have received a good probability so long as the CD is in a single piece,” he stated.
“There’s a honest probability it would play and it’s of top of the range in contrast with what individuals may need skilled by listening to stuff on their telephone. And CDs are nonetheless comparatively inexpensive within the second-hand market.”
Cambridge Audio is one among many firms set to launch CD gamers this yr. The Denon DCD-1700NE was unveiled earlier this yr, as was JBL’s new Basic Sequence CD350 and Audiolab’s 9000CDT transport.
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