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Truly enjoyable listening to this Cd player. My or the units break-in did take 300+ hours to fully settle down. This piece of equipment did replace my existing Rotel 991 after many hours/days of careful listening. CDP100 is a better player by 3x. It is simply decribed as many times more delicate and deeper in layers, the finest details revealed, soundstage accurate, and never overwhelmed by busy or complex tracks. My older Rotel unit really did sound excellent though, I kept it for many years and enjoyed it thoroughly but I was somewhat surprised to finally convince myself that the Classé is not just better, its a new level of listening. I had to start listening to all my CD all over again once it was ready. It reproduces the source to amazing levels, as if I were listening to really real instruments and not just a great imitation.
This player demands that you have a better than just good preamp, amp, wires, speakers to get all the detail out. Anything else and you loose its potential.
Unfortunately, a year after its release they discontinued it but I hear it was still in demand. Many people like myself who enjoyed having a HDCD decoder for a large CD collection will need to keep their existing players or get a decoder. Then again HDCD chips were also discontinued after HDCD was sold by the manufacturer. Another tech war casuality.
In summary, very amazing player with very few gitches. Still future ready with software updates to support the standard CD format. Strengths:
Brings out all hidden delicate details in a real sense. Very true accurate reproduction of any cd, cdrw, cdr source. HDCD decoder is breath taking good. Balanced throughout, many 24 bit upsamplers. GUI easy to use. Upgradable software operating system. Uploads are very easy with a serial connect. Many functions on its remote. The remote is made of solid aluminum. Solid aluminum unit surround construction. Similarly compared to units costing 3x its price. Weaknesses:
Discontinued. Waiting for next software update to correct a old Sarah McLachlan enhanced CD gitch that will not show time remaining per track or per CD. Noticed a very slight metallic on the highest octaves when playing a few high pitched singer opera tracks. It could be the source? It acts confused when no cd is in drawer and keeps trying to find it.
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