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- Μηνύματα
- 8.978
- Reaction score
- 895
"...earns sia la mia ammirazione che il mio rispetto -- both my admiration and my respect."
Lector CDP-7T/Mk III CD Player
Price: $4490 USD.
Warranty: One year parts and labor, 90 days for tubes.
"A two-piece Italian-made CD player with a separate power supply," "the CDP-7T/Mk III uses 24-bit Burr-Brown PCM1704 DACs, an upgrade from the Mk II’s 20-bit DACs. The zero-feedback analog section of the player uses a pair of ECC81 tubes -- or 12AT7s in American terminology." "Inside 26 1/2-pound main chassis are the custom-made top-loading mechanism and all of the audio circuit boards.
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Conclusione
Remember when it was standard practice to bash CD playback for the lousy way it reproduced strings? Well, if you listen to a lot of music with massed strings, you really ought to find a way to hear how the CDP-7T/Mk III reproduces it. Unusually truthful timbres and spacious soundstaging await you, along with instruments that sound uncannily real. The high frequencies may be restrained a smidgen with some preamps, but not enough to affect the overall performance of the CDP-7T/Mk III significantly, which seemed to be about savoring beautiful sonorities rather than producing forward momentum. For many of the classical music selections I enjoy, that’s a more than acceptable trade-off.
The Lector CDP-7T/Mk III is not only the best-sounding CD player I’ve heard at its mid-level price point, but one of the best CD players I’ve heard, period. In fact, it sounds better than most SACD playback I've heard in areas where SACD’s traditional strengths lie: bass response and tonal sophistication. Not having heard many significantly higher-priced digital players, I can’t say if the Lector player betters them, but any way I look at it, the CDP-7T/Mk III is one superb CD player, and one I would certainly buy."
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