Swiss audio specialist Goldmund has spun out a brand new SACD participant. The Eidos SACD arrives because the child brother to the corporate’s 2021-released flagship Eidos Reference mannequin, trickling down a lot of its CD replay engineering prowess right into a smaller, extra inexpensive package deal. Goldmund says the Eidos SACD is actually “a extra compact object with out compromise and with an improved ergonomics of the area”.
Like its predecessor, the Eidos SACD is able to not solely enjoying a wide range of audio discs (SACD, CD, CD-R, CD-RW, in addition to audio from DVD-R codecs) but additionally PCM 384KHz and to DSD512 when related to a pc through its USB enter. Unsurprisingly that’s it for inputs, although outputs span RCA, XLR, coaxial and optical sockets for including a preamplifier, processor or built-in amp.
Goldmund says it’s taken each consideration to defend the completely different sections of the internals to cut back undesirable interference, together with the ability provide which the corporate’s R&D crew has made extra compact and “even higher high quality” than the one in older Goldmund gamers, in addition to the identical audio card discovered within the Eidos Reference.
Because the Eidos Reference was the results of a long-term venture researching disc mechanisms at Goldmund’s Geneva labs, the brand new participant continues to be an advert for that growth. It additionally incorporates a D&M-based SACD mechanism that’s built-in into the Goldmund mechanical grounding system to evacuate vibrations. And the Goldmund damper is there to extend the rigidity of the loader mechanism for improved sonic transparency, too.
Whereas there’s now a brand new entrance panel that incorporates a ‘management keyboard’, the brand new Eidos largely retains its predecessor’s glossy gray aesthetic. The 20kg participant is extra compact than its massive brother – 44cm broad, 18cm tall and 37cm deep, and with out the stand building that contributes to a lot of the Eidos Reference’s 110kg weight.
Although the ‘child’ Eidos SACD was developed with the Asian market in thoughts (disc playback continues to be highly regarded there), additionally it is coming to the UK and Europe. The injury is £80,000 (AU$149,950) – substantial however (each cloud…) nowhere close to as heavy because the Eidos Reference’s £175,000 asking worth.
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