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Leak CDT

Featuring the gloriously retro styling of the classic Leak design, the CDT is a high quality slot loading CD transport. It features a optical and coaxial S/PDIF outputs and also a USB socket on the front into which can pull WMA, MPS, WAV, and AAC files from a storage device (at 44 and 48kHz). A chunky linear power supply is a nice bonus at this price level too.

Dimensions: 302 x 117.1 x 278 (Silver),  326 x 145.1 x 283 (Walnut)

           

Leak CDT in Silver: £499.95

Leak CDT with Walnut wood enclosure: £599.95

Pro-Ject DS2T

The DS2T is an excellent compact and affordable CD transport. It is housed in a discreet aluminium case with fetching wood side cheeks and uses a slot loading suspended CD mechanism. Three digital outputs are provided - coaxial, optical and AES/EBU, meaning that it should work with almost any DAC.

Pro-ject DS2T CD Transport in Black or Silver without wood side cheeks: £559.00

Pro-ject DS2T CD Transport, as above with Walnut,  Eucalyptus or Rosewood side cheeks: £629.00

Audio Note CDT Zero/II

The CDT Zero/II transport features anin-house custom modified Philips front loading CD mechanism, combined with a custom copper wired digital output transformer. It is available with either black acrylic or silver aluminium fascia.

-Audio Note CDT Zero/II: £POA at manufacturers request

CEC TL5

There’s something very special about CEC transports, and this is almost certainly attributable to their radical belt drive mechanism. Most CD players use a motor to directly drive the disc from underneath, this will couple vibration into the disc and rely upon the basic motor bearings to support the spinning disc. To solve these issues CEC use a belt drive assembly to reduce the transmission of noise from the motor, the disc is held in place with a weighty clamp and that spins on top of a very high quality bearing - much like the one you’d find in a good turntable.

The TL5 has the motor drive belt mounted inside the CD compartment, making it incredibly simple to change the drive belt (on the very rare occasions when it is required) as no tools are needed.

The sound of these transports is very special, but quite difficult to describe on paper. Anyone familiar with a good turntable will instantly recognise the extra realism they reproduce. There’s a tremendous sense of flow, of musicians playing together and interacting, and a sense of analogue like freedom to the sound. That’s not to say the sound is lacking in dynamics or excitement - quite the opposite in fact, the sound is incredibly involving. Much like the filterless DACs we champion, it takes digital replay to a level which seems impossible to achieve through other means.

It offers a very wide range of connection options including XLR (AES/EBU), coaxial S/PDIF (via a phono/RCA) and Toslink optical.

    

Finishes: Black or Silver

-CEC TL5 CD Transport: £2,995.

Audio Note CDT One/II

The CDT Two/II uses a front loading Philips CDM Pro mechanism. Available with either a black acrylic or silver aluminium fascia.

-Audio Note CDT One/II: £POA at manufacturers request

Audio Note CDT Two/II

The CDT Two/II is based around the Philips CDM Pro mechanism with a top loading arrangement and magnetic disc clamp. It features a large power supply and high grade componentry. Available with either a black acrylic (above) or silver aluminium (below) fascia.

-Audio Note CDT Two II: £POA at manufacturers request

 

CEC TL2N

The TL2N is the middle model in the CEC line. Inside it uses a twin belt drive mechanism combined with a high quality bearing and a high mass (380gm) brass clamp. Outputs include AES/EBU, coaxial, optical and CEC's own Superlink. It is available in either Silver or Black finish.

CEC TL2N CD Transport: £5,995

Audio Note CDT Three

The CDT Three features a custom modified Philips CD Pro2LF CD mechanism, a silver wired output transformer and is internally wired with Audio Note AN-VX silver wire and features Tantalum resistors as well as Black Gate capacitors. The complex multi stage power supply features 3 separate transformers. It is available with either a black acrylic or silver aluminium fascia.

-Audio Note CDT Three: £POA at manufacturers request

Audio Note CDT Four

The CDT Four is a full sized top loading CD transport. The refinements over the CDT Three include a choke smoother power supply, even more high quality components and internal Audio Note Sogon wiring. It is available with either a Black acrylic or silver aluminium fascia.

Audio Note CDT Four: £POA at manufacturers request

CEC TL0 - 3.0

The TL0 - 3.0 is the pinnacle of the CEC range of transports. As you’d expect from CEC is uses twin belt drive and this is combined with a very sophisticated suspension system, an arrangement that uses their three point D.R.T.S. (Double Rubber & Triple-Springs) assembly. This floats the hexagonal assembly (visible in the internal picture below) which supports the laser and main bearing and minimises coupling to the cog-free low torque motors.

CEC have spent a lot of time with anti vibration measures extending beyond the suspension system mentioned above, throughout they have used techniques including combining dissimilar metals to damp one another and using 20mm thick slabs of aluminium. These also help screen the drive electronics from the mechanism itself, as does the use of a massive regulated power supply which is mounted in a separate box.

The attention to detail doesn’t finish with the design, each unit is hand made, then soak tested for a week and individually auditioned prior to dispatch.

-CEC TL0 - 3.0 CD transport: £28,000

Audio Note CDT Five

The CDT Five is a radical CD transport. It features both a valve rectified power supply and valve digital output stage - both firsts as far as we’re aware. Needless to say attention has been paid to all other aspects of design, from transformer design, through to its completely Black Gate equipped power supply, Audio Note Pallas silver internal wiring and its sprung sub chassis. This transport weighs a not inconsiderable 22kg and is available with either a black acrylic or silver aluminium fascia.

-Audio Note CDT Five: £POA at manufacturers request

Audio Note CDT Six Force

The ultimate Audio Note CD transport. Housed in two substantial full sized cases, one is the transport itself, the other the gargantuan power supply representing the Force part of it’s name. Featuring heavyweight copper slabs internally the transport weighs a not insignificant 36kg, the power supply a further 23kg.

-Audio Note CDT Six Force: £POA at manufacturers request

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