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Arcam FMJ CD3. 7 CDSACD player review. Arcam has recently revamped its entire flagship FMJ range. First seen at Munichs High End show, the line up has something for everyone in terms of both specification and price. At the very top of the CD player range, is the subject of this review the FMJ CD3. SACD compatible disc spinner that reflects all of Arcams CD player know how in one box. Arcams decision to include SACD compatibility is intriguing, as the format hasnt quite been the success story Sony hoped for, but Arcams brand manager Geoff Meads points out that SACD disc sales are buoyant outside of the UK and reminds us that it is, of course, an audiophile format and this is an audiophile product. Point taken. Familiar Arcam design. The new range topping machine has benefited from a lot of the development work seen in Arcams DVD players. It also directly replaces two models the Di. VA CD1. 92 and the FMJ CD3. Its turned out in the usual Arcam FMJ style, with a smart dot matrix display thats a little different in style from recent Arcam CD players as it displays text when SACDs are loaded the manual claims it also displays CD Text, though we couldnt persuade it to. It still occupies the same amount of panel space as the old ones, though and the button layout is the same, too. And yes, Arcam stays in our good books for including both track skip and fast forwardback buttons Basic functions. Functions beyond the basic transport controls do require the remote control, which is Arcams new CR9. Cd 1000 Cd Player' title='1000 Cd 1000 Cd Player' />That said, there arent many functions on the CD3. SACDs in the unlikely event you ever find a reason to do so, display mode switching and the usual track programming functions are about all. Looking under the lid, nothing immediately jumps out as unusual, though there are some interesting features. The transport itself looks indistinguishable from a normal CD one and the output circuit, with its high quality op amps and passive components, could be from any respectable digital audio player. Arcam has picked one of the latest DAC chips, a Wolfson 8. PCM CD and DSD SACD datastreams, with very impressive specifications. Impressive DACThese days, the DAC invariably handles most of the filtering function, which is essential to the operation of any digital audio device and, as such, has to be the single biggest influence on the sound. Find great deals on eBay for cd player and portable cd player. Shop with confidence. Performance Control. Hot Cue sampler Memorizes up to 3 cue points per CD. These points can then be recalled by hitting either of the A, B or C buttons. A CD player is an electronic device that plays audio compact discs, which are a digital optical disc data storage format. CD players were first sold to consumers in 1982. For most DJs and all technowizzes the DJ CD player is not only an integral part of a setup, it is also an exciting, feature packed piece of hardware. Pioneer CDJs. The Pioneer CDJ400, CDJ800, CDJ1000, CDJ900, and the CDJ2000 have a vinyl emulation mode that allows the operator to manipulate music on a CD as if. Wolfson has provided the chip used in the CD3. Arcam may have missed a trick in choosing the default one when another was available with much lower aliasing in the transition band. The benefits of this may not be vast, but with CD player performance nearing theoretical perfection, every little helps The other irony of the DAC is that, like most modern parts, it is a multi bit delta sigma type internally, which means that it converts both PCM and DSD datastreams into what is effectively a middling format before final conversion to analogue, thus losing the conceptual simplicity of pure DSD. Arcam couldnt have done anything about that, though, and most SACDs will have been recorded through a similarly convoluted digital path. Thoughtful specification. Janome Digitizer Mb Free. For the rest, the internal construction is very good, with separate toroidal transformers for analogue and digital circuit sections and extensive screening, including Arcams Stealth Mat metal fibre screening, ensuring solid grounding between chassis and lid and extra electromagnetic screening on key components. Twin analogue outputs and both flavours of digital output, complete the thoughtful specification. Mechanical noise is distinctly lower than from many players weve tested recently and disc loading time is reasonable actually, by the standards of most SACDs players, is excellent. Highly capable CD player. We expected good things from this player, having not had a bad Arcam disc spinner in many years, and we werent disappointed. That sentence, of course, highlights the risk of preconceptions and, aware of that, we set up an informal blind test against a couple of familiar CD players, which confirmed that this is a highly capable machine. Dabba Trading Software. Its basic sound is clear, extended and unfussy, with detail served up tastefully never thrust at the listener. Having said above that CD players are approaching theoretical perfection, its surprising how they still seem to differ sonically. Differences are seldom night and day barring the odd, wilfully different design, but can still become quite obvious after a bit of listening to familiar tracks. Rather than substantial changes in tonality or level of resolution, what we tend to find is subtle changes in emphasis, one player perhaps giving a touch more importance to rhythm, say, while another favours lyrics or high lying melodies. In this case, the most favoured region seems to be the bass and lower midrange. No coloration. We hasten to add that theres no suggestion in the sound of excessive level in that frequency band, no added richness or loose, woofy overhang. When i got the Yamaha A1000 in January 1986, I also got the lower end of the Yamaha line CD37 CD player and the T80 Tuner. In 1991 I upgraded to the Yamaha CDX. Cd 1000 Cd Player' title='1000 Cd 1000 Cd Player' />In quickfire comparisons with other players and with high end external DACs fed from the CD3. There is indeed a richness, a sense of luxury, to the bottom octaves which couples with the CD3. Precise imaging. What makes that even more appealing is that there seems to be no compromising lack of quality in the upper octaves or hardly any. Perhaps, in the very highest treble theres a hint of grain and less openness and air around the sound than the very finest digital replay can provide were thinking seriously high end here, but it must be said that few if any sub 1,0. CD players can exceed the performance we felt the CD3. Midrange is exquisitely detailed and stereo imaging is precise in both dimensions, with very good extension, too. SACD performance. Cd 1000 Cd Player' title='1000 Cd 1000 Cd Player' />So far, we havent specified whether were talking about CD or SACD quality, on the whole, of course, were referring to the former, mainly because we and almost all potential CD3. SACD comparisons are slightly trickier, but we do feel that this player is one of the best weve heard at avoiding the slightly ethereal quality which has, for us, subtly undermined the appeal of some SACD players. Here, the sound is full bodied and well grounded that charming bass clearly doesnt hurt, but the treble seems unusually well integrated with the rest of the range. As for the comparison between CD and SACD layers of the same recording when its fair, i. SACD thats not a universal finding but Arcam does make a case for SACDs higher resolution, with just a hint more precision across the board. Best in class. Weve been complimentary about a good few CD players in this ballpark recently and its clear that standards are generally high. This particular offering, however, seems one of the most appealing in its class, not only because of the inclusion of SACD, but because its sound is both excellent overall and tastefully differentiated from the average. There will never be such a thing as a CD player for all tastes, but this one seems likely to satisfy more than most. Find great deals on eBay for cd player high end and reference cd player. Shop with confidence. Kenwood 1990 L Series CD player the penultimate. Part of Kenwoods penultimate highend set, alongwith the L1000M poweramp, L1000C preamp and L1000T FM tuner.