{"id":162550,"date":"2023-06-05T18:23:57","date_gmt":"2023-06-05T17:23:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.techweekmag.com\/?p=162550"},"modified":"2023-10-18T07:05:04","modified_gmt":"2023-10-18T06:05:04","slug":"goldmund-eidos-sacd-the-ultimate-optical-disc-player","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/hi-fi\/goldmund-eidos-sacd-the-ultimate-optical-disc-player\/","title":{"rendered":"Goldmund Eidos SACD: The ultimate optical disc player"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Swiss company\u00a0Goldmund\u00a0has introduced a new model of the\u00a0Goldmund\u00a0Eidos\u00a0SACD\u00a0optical disc player , equipped with a USB-B digital input and supporting decoding of PCM digital streams with resolutions up to 32 bit \/ 384 kHz and DSD up to DSD512.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/132_techweek.webp\" alt=\"Image\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In addition, the Goldmund Eidos SACD switching arsenal includes coaxial and optical digital outputs and a balanced AES \/ EBU digital output, as well as analog outputs &#8211; both balanced on XLR connectors and unbalanced on RCA.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/133_techweek.webp\" alt=\"Image\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Goldmund Eidos SACD player is based on the D&amp;M SACD optical disc transport, which is mounted on a proprietary chassis to eliminate vibration, resulting in the highest accuracy of reading information from the disc.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/134_techweek.webp\" alt=\"Image\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Goldmund\u00a0Eidos\u00a0SACD\u00a0SACD player\u00a0is offered in a silver finish and has a suggested retail price of\u00a0\u20ac90,750\u00a0.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/135_techweek.webp\" alt=\"Image\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>Goldmund Eidos SACD specifications:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Frequency range:\u00a010 Hz &#8211; 20 kHz, 5 Hz (-0.15 dB), 24 kHz (-0.45 dB), 48 kHz (-1.4 dB), 96 kHz (-4.3 dB)<\/li>\n<li>Signal-to-noise ratio:\u00a0&gt;128 dB.<\/li>\n<li>THD:\u00a0&lt;0.00018% (analog output)<\/li>\n<li>Dynamic Range:\u00a0&gt;128 dB<\/li>\n<li>Maximum single-ended analog output level:\u00a02V (standard), 4V (high)<\/li>\n<li>Maximum balanced analog output level:\u00a04V (standard), 8V (high)<\/li>\n<li>Supported optical disc formats:\u00a0SACD \/ CD \/ CD-R \/ CD-RW \/ DVD-R \/-RW\/+R\/+RW<\/li>\n<li>Dimensions (W\u00a0x\u00a0H\u00a0x\u00a0D):\u00a0440 x 183 x 370 cm<\/li>\n<li>Weight\u00a0:\u00a020.6 kg<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Swiss company\u00a0Goldmund\u00a0has introduced a new model of the\u00a0Goldmund\u00a0Eidos\u00a0SACD\u00a0optical disc player , equipped with a USB-B digital input and supporting decoding of PCM digital streams with resolutions up to 32 bit \/ 384 kHz and DSD up to DSD512. In addition, the Goldmund Eidos SACD switching arsenal includes coaxial and optical digital outputs and a [&hellip;] <a class=\"g1-link g1-link-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/hi-fi\/goldmund-eidos-sacd-the-ultimate-optical-disc-player\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10404,"featured_media":162551,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[642],"tags":[779],"class_list":{"0":"post-162550","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hi-fi","8":"tag-news"},"acf":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162550","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=162550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162550\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}