{"id":159281,"date":"2023-03-29T09:20:45","date_gmt":"2023-03-29T08:20:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.techweekmag.com\/?p=159281"},"modified":"2023-10-18T06:08:04","modified_gmt":"2023-10-18T05:08:04","slug":"teac-vrds-701-and-vrds-701t-new-cd-player-and-cd-transport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/hi-fi\/teac-vrds-701-and-vrds-701t-new-cd-player-and-cd-transport\/","title":{"rendered":"TEAC VRDS-701 and VRDS-701T: New CD player and CD transport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Japanese company\u00a0TEAC\u00a0has introduced two new models for playing CDs &#8211; the\u00a0VRDS-701 CD player and\u00a0the VRDS-701T\u00a0CD transport will complement\u00a0the Reference 700\u00a0series\u00a0.<\/p>\n<p>The TEAC VRDS-701\u00a0full CD player is distinguished by the use of a new version of the proprietary\u00a0VRDS\u00a0drive\u00a0, as well as a digital-to-analog converter based on discrete elements of its own original design.\u00a0Direct connection to a power amplifier is possible thanks to the volume control using the\u00a0TEAC-QVCS\u00a0analog preamplifier circuit .<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/389_techweek.jpg\" alt=\"Image\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In addition to playing MQA\u00a0CDs,\u00a0full MQA digital decoding is also possible.\u00a0When using the player as a USB DAC, DSD streams at 22.5MHz and PCM data at 384kHz\/32bit can be played back.\u00a0The player has an input for an external 10 MHz clock signal, toroidal power transformers are used to power analog, digital and I \/ O circuits, as well as a CD drive.<\/p>\n<p>The original TEAC-HCLD2\u00a0buffer circuit\u00a0for the output provides increased load current.\u00a0The headphone amplifier has a powerful output with low distortion, excellent signal-to-noise ratio and a high slew rate of\u00a02000 V\/\u00b5s\u00a0.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/390_techweek.jpg\" alt=\"Image\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The TEAC VRDS-701T\u00a0CD transport\u00a0is designed to be used with an external DAC equipped with a digital input.\u00a0The model also features\u00a0VRDS\u00a0, a proprietary CD drive mechanism that reduces unwanted vibrations by pressing the CD against an aluminum platter of the same diameter to maximize moment of inertia.<\/p>\n<p>Equipping the transport with a 10 MHz\u00a0external clock input\u00a0provides flexible integration with systems that are synchronized using external clock signals.\u00a0For signal output there are digital outputs of S\/PDIF format (optical\/coaxial), the model provides decoding of the basic MQA digital signal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Japanese company\u00a0TEAC\u00a0has introduced two new models for playing CDs &#8211; the\u00a0VRDS-701 CD player and\u00a0the VRDS-701T\u00a0CD transport will complement\u00a0the Reference 700\u00a0series\u00a0. The TEAC VRDS-701\u00a0full CD player is distinguished by the use of a new version of the proprietary\u00a0VRDS\u00a0drive\u00a0, as well as a digital-to-analog converter based on discrete elements of its own original design.\u00a0Direct connection to [&hellip;] <a class=\"g1-link g1-link-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/hi-fi\/teac-vrds-701-and-vrds-701t-new-cd-player-and-cd-transport\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10404,"featured_media":159285,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[642],"tags":[779],"class_list":["post-159281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-hi-fi","tag-news"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159281\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}