Karlcarl

Overall Rating
 4 of 5

Value Rating
 3 of 5

Used product for
More than 1 year

Visitors rate this review
5.00 of 5, 1.00 votes

Price Paid:  $0.00

Summary:
To put it simply: if you own an aging Copland 288, buy a new clock for it. I now have Lclock xo3, it totally renewed the sound, which used to be vague and inconsistent.

Strengths:
Build quality, Teac vrds.

Weaknesses:
Original crystal: lots of jitter. Display

Price Paid:  $2600.00 from local dealer

Summary:
I bought this giant of player and I am very satisfied with. CDA 288 offer smooth and open with lot of details highs, extraordinary natural mids and wery deep and tight lows. Soundstage is so wide, deep and high. I prefer Classical, Rock{Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple etc...},Blues and Ambiental music,and in my opinion CDA 288 is made for. My present system is: Primare A 30.1 Copland CDA288 Diapason Adamantes III Monster Cable S 1,5 MIT Terminator 2

Strengths:
Clarity, smoothness,musicality,details,deep bass...

Weaknesses:
No XLR balanced connectors

Similar Products Used:
Primare D 30.2 Marantz CD 14

Summary:
High Tech, no doubt, the CDA 288 uses a Teac CMK-4 transport, PD100 HDCD filter and a unique application for 2 PCM63's per channel - used not dual differential but staggerred - attaining something like a 16 times oversampling.
Its also built - and I mean built.

It s sound - is a wonderfully smooth an coherent one with a big bass. Not the last word in rhythm and timing but very boppy and flowing, a clear midrange and depth like hell.

I'd say 4 stars - 5 to me would be something really mind boggling.