The CD22 is the successor to and upgrade for the successful and acclaimed CD21 CD player. Every component, from the CD transport to the audio output stage, has been designed to achieve the highest possible audio performance.
As its name suggests, the CD22 is dedicated to the Compact Disc format. For the many music lovers with large CD collections accumulated over many years with great care and at great emotional and financial expense, the CD22 will ensure that the silver disc continues to provide easy access to ever greater fidelity. Even so, the CD22 will also play and control MP3 or WMA files via USB or disc, providing exceptional sound according to the data available.
The CD22 incorporates a dedicated CD-transport with a considerable five second buffer memory in order to provide the best jitter suppression and protection frommechanical shock. As determined by user preference, signals may be up-conver ted to 192kHz in order to provide the single high-performance Burr-Brown PCM1792 DAC/filter combination with as clean a signal as possible. There are no capacitors in the CD22’s signal paths. SMD technology and separate PCB modules are used throughout the design in order to keep the signal paths isolated and short. All analogue and digital audio circuits are supplied from separate R-core transformer windings.
