At the Florida International Audio Expo , which opened in the United States on February 17, the Japanese company TEAC introduced a new CD player VRDS-701 , which expanded the Refernece 700 series of electronics . The player is equipped with a new generation of proprietary optical transport VRDS. This is a unique drive mechanism that fixes the CD on an aluminum base, resulting in the increase in the mass of the rotating system, which reduces vibration and vibration, which increases the accuracy of reading information from the disc.
The TEAC VRDS-701 is fully balanced in a dual mono concept to achieve excellent channel separation. The novelty is equipped with a built-in pre-amplifier with volume control, which allows you to connect the player directly to a power amplifier or active speaker systems.
In addition, the TEAC VRDS-701 can act as an external DAC capable of decoding PCM streams up to 32bit/384kHz, DSD up to DSD512, and MQA format, both from MQA CD and digital inputs. In addition to SPDIF inputs, the novelty is equipped with a USB-C port for connecting to a computer.
The TEAC VRDS-701 implements a separate power supply with separate toroidal power transformers for the digital and analog sections, as well as for the optical drive. The player uses proprietary TEAC-HCLD2 buffer amplifier and headphone amplifier. The novelty is offered in silver and black versions. The release date of the player for sale and the recommended retail price will be announced later.
Key Features of TEAC VRDS-701 CD Player:
- Supported optical disc formats: CD-DA, CD-R, CD-RW, MQA
- Digital inputs: USB-C × 1, coaxial × 1, optical × 1
- Analog outputs: balanced XLR × 1 pair, unbalanced RCA × 1 pair
- Digital outputs: coaxial × 1, optical × 1
- External clock input 10 MHz: BNC × 1
- Dimensions (W × H × D): 444 × 111.3 × 333.6 mm
- Weight : 11.8 kg
