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In 2000 this evolved the electronics of the module to Pro2 status with the introduction of the CD10 integrated decoding system for better error correction and improving performance on marginal and out-of-spec discs.

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The CD Pro of 1997 succeeded it and introduced a second polished stainless-steel guide rail for the optical sledge and a 1:1 gear ratio over the earlier 3:1 ratio for improved sledge movement.

The CDM12 Industrial of 1994 was the first generation. The CD Pro design was stable for over 20 years. 'The CD Pro2 was part of a family of CD player modules designed by Enco and Philips to be elegant solutions for jukebox and hifi applications. The CD Pro modules ended with the 2LF version at right which was backward compatible with the CDM-12 Industrial, CD Pro1, CD Pro2 and 2LF but not the CDM3 or CDM4. Readers will want to know more from Liu about the CDM-4.' As I put it to Alvin, 'the CD-Pro2 has all the reputation, few know about the CDM4, its mechanics, reliability, availability etc. Even diehard streaming listeners have heard of the latter, perhaps from machines like the Levinson Nвѓ7, Zanden Model 2000, Nagra CDT or Burmester 069 which modified it with a C.E.C. My focus would be on physical versus virtual media.Д«ut first, some background on the CDM4 versus CD-Pro2. CDT2 MkII as a poor man's stripped-down MГ©tronome? Not that I'd find out without a MГ©tronome or equivalent competitor. This rather neatly identified its target audience. Nor did this model include a DAC or SACD playback. On price, Jackie's simply didn't aim as high. Clearly the market for take-no-prisoners disc transports was alive and well regardless of actual size. That's a CD/SACD transport with integral dual-mono AKM AK4497 DAC.

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In fact, at the day of writing this, MГ©tronome's Jean Marie Clauzel sent me a PDF of their new в‚¬12'800 AQWO. I do know that millions of CDs didn't suddenly evaporate to become unplayable. Whether they've given commensurate file playing truly a chance I haven't the faintest. Such folks may own MГ©tronome Kallista level transports equivalents from mbl, Esoteric, Nagra or C.E.C. They still swear that spinning polycarbonate discs goes beyond even the fanciest of streamers. They continue to staunchly disavow computers for hifi. Also, I wanted a present-day update, a refamiliarization of sorts, on how that other half lives. Going in, I viewed this as a personal reality check. After all these years, how far had our USB audio installation really come? Did my best-case scenario of streaming SD cards from a super-cap powered transport still leave crumbs on the floor? Would Jackie's CDT2 MkII teach us a thing or two? Would it simply offer an alternate view on familiar sonic scenery? She prefers keeping her computer and hifi separate while she works on multiple big image files for her layered photo montages. Who doesn't own a computer?Д«ut, off the iMac, I still burn playlists to 80-minute CDR for Ivette. The days of burning custom CD compilations for friends are finished too when I can instead bring over a USB stick with far more files. Those services I mainly use to discover new music or to have some ambiance at the work desk. I much prefer owning music over renting access by subscription.

I buy downloads from BandCamp, Qobuz or Tidal instead. That was before Qobuz and Tidal covered the same genres more comprehensively online. Back home, I'd immediately rip them to the iMac's FusionDrive, then store them.

At sundry Munich shows since, I'd still buy a stack of exotic CDs from Ludwig Beck's top floor on the Marienplatz. Those heavy boxes have traveled with us through many a house move. Yet our CD collection has long since moved into storage. Their Sony top loaders grace her art studios. Still, my wife retains two Aura Note CD receivers. Having satisfied myself that good sound could be pushed down the USB pipe, I eventually divested myself of disc spinners. It's where things were inexorably headed. Getting subsequently into PCfi had been part of the reviewing job. I'd reviewed the Ensemble Dirondo and Weiss Jason. Transports I owned back then included top loaders by Accustic Arts and Zanden. The last time I spun CDs outside reviews goes many years back.