Audionote cdt zero update#
Audionote cdt zero professional#

When reviewing or considering gear for purchase, I ForĪ short while I listened to lady singers twittering like birds and standup bass performedīy a 'musician' who couldnt play wellextraordinarily well-recorded Twenty years in pursuit of an audio happy ending. Stop reading and buy!ĭidnt stop reading and buy. However, for about $6000 you can own a COMPLETE SYSTEM and forget about gearįorever, or at least for about ten years, when it will be time to replace the tubes. Ive heard in overall terms, or in any single respect. You want to enjoy music and dont want to chase your tail around the high end, buy Mix-and-match look of most audiophile systems. It is a pretty cool-looking system, given the Same height and width the monoblock amps (all of 8 watts!) are deeper. All five boxes (amps, preamp, DAC, transport) are the Silver Audio Silver Bullet 4.0s interconnect and Beldon 1219A speaker cables.ĪPI Power Pack and ACPEAM line conditioners.Īudio Note Zero System includes wiring, electronics, and speakers. Oracle Delphi MkII turntable, AudioQuest PT7 tone arm, Koetsu Classe CA100 amplifier.ĬAL Icon MkII CD player. I am happy to testify that in respect of the CDT II, the wait is well worth it.Larry Cox, Francisco Duran, and Victor ChaviraĮ.A.R 802 preamplifier. Certainly, if I’d bought a CDT II on the strength of a favourable review and had not been expecting the break-in the take so very, very long, I’d too have been temped to show it the door.īut surely that’s a problem that could easily be resolved by accurate setting of expectations: tell the purchaser right up front that their new transport WILL take, say, 800 hours before it sounds right. It’s easy to see how this very long running in period could cause impatient purchasers to dismiss their new transport as lightweight and unsatisfactory. I expect the new transport to continue to improve still further. This morning, at getting on for 800 hours of constant running, it is showing signs of the taughtness and weight of bass that I also found so impressive in the demonstration model. In fact it was not until it had passed the 600-hour mark that I heard the beginnings of a familiar musicality and airiness. The transport was sounding a pale shadow of the demonstration model that I had auditioned. But not out of the box.Īt around 100 hours (these are approximate milestones and apply only to the player I bought) it began to develop a semblance of top-end, but an unpleasantly brittle, on-edge one.Īt 200 hours it still had no real bottom end and what there was sounded loose and flabby.īy 300 the top-end had begun to develop a sweeter and more natural sound with less edginess but the bottom end had still not tightened up. However it does deliver a remarkably musically coherent and satisfying experience that gets closer to live sound for the price than any transport I’ve heard. He’s going to miss out because that transport will sound very good indeed when it is finally burned in, but that will not be until – at least in my limited experience – it has passed the 600-hour mark. One recent purchaser of a CDT II announced that he couldn’t live with the lightweight sound of his new transport and was selling it on after only a few hundred hours of running. Judging from Internet conference threads, this extended burn-in time is noteworthy, but clearly not widely understood. Among the idiosyncrasies noted by Collums is the long - 300 hours + - burning in time that Black Gates require before they give up their music goodies.

Audionote cdt zero professional#

The CDT II is stuffed with Black Gate electrolytics, a make of capacitor whose remarkable sonic characteristics UK professional reviewer Martin Collums has recently devoted a whole article to.

Audionote cdt zero update#

Gentle reader – please be aware that this is an update to my earlier full review of the Audio Note CDT II transport here on Audiogon.