We are convinced it will give you many hours of
listening pleasure.
You already know about the undoubted virtues of Compact
Discs (CDs) – their convenience, ruggedness and long,
uninterrupted playing time – but, up to now, you may have
been disappointed by the sound quality when you play
them. At TAG McLaren Audio we understand exactly what
needs to be done to get the best sound from a CD.
accurate reproduction
Digital recording is quite insensitive to data
losses, such as a scratch on a disc. However,
rebuilding the recorded music exactly, even
from a perfect digital recording, is a
complex task which is often not appreciated
and has only recently been fully understood.
high-quality transport mechanism
To minimise any corruption of data being
read from the CD, the CD20R has a heavy-
duty transport mechanism and the laser,
which reads the data from the CD, has fast
digital servo control to ensure that it
follows the CD tracks as accurately as
possible. The specially-designed
Sorbothane
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sonic isolation feet help the
servo to track accurately by minimising the
vibration that reaches the mechanism.
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stable internal clock
The timing of the data is as important as
the data itself. Timing inaccuracy, known as
‘jitter’, is responsible for a wide range of
subtle distortions. In the CD20R, jitter is
reduced to an absolute technical minimum
using a very stable electronic clock which
is synchronised to the CD data stream to
provide accurate timing.
digital filtering
By its nature, digital data generates
unwanted, high-frequency noise when it is
converted back to the analogue domain
(which is what our ears can hear). Even
though the noise frequency is way above the
threshold of human hearing, it has
unpleasant effects on the sound due to what
audio engineers call ‘intermodulation’.
To remove this noise, the CD20R uses a
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