I've been mucking about with an absolute honey of a CD player for a few
days. A Harman Kardon HD970. A real giant-killer for RRP AUS$599.00.
Highly recommended. Very detailed, very quiet (quieter than my test
equipment, in fact) and, IMO, extremely well priced. It will accept the
output of a transport, or it can be used as a transport on it's own
(though why you'd bother, I don't know). The DAC in this thing will
comprehensively clobber any surround sound reciever I know of. In fact,
it is clearly superior to pretty much anything I've used in my system
recently.

If you need a high end player, you would do worse than listening to this
puppy. Mind blowing value for money, IMO.

For those who care about technical stuff:

Frequency response: 20Hz - 20kHz +0/-0.5dB
THD: 0.0009% @1kHz
Dynamic range: 116dB
S/N: 116dB
Channel Sparation: 115dB

Oversampling: 24 bits/384kHz Asynchonous Sample Rate Covertor

This puppy has full descrete transistor output stages! There appears, at
this stage, to be very little required in the way of enhancements. HK
have REALLY done their homework with this machine.

[Disclosure]
I have no relationship with Convoy International (the importer of HK). I
do not retail HK equipment, nor do I have any relationship with HK USA.
I purchased the HKD970 through a HK retailer.

Trevor Wilson

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