Accustic Arts PLAYER III CD Player

The heart of the PLAYER III is a high-end traction-feed drive that is exclusively designed for audio applications. The drive has a high-quality and resonance-optimized CD tray in aluminium and is guided by two metal bars. The excellent-sounding DA converter used in the PLAYER III works according to the well-established 32/384 upsampling principle. With its classic stylish design and sophisticated technology, the PLAYER III is the perfect companion for our POWER II or the new POWER III. For optimal connectivity, the PLAYER III features balanced outputs for this reason.

PLAYER III highlights

• Premium CD player and high-quality D/A converter in one unit
• High-precision 32-bit/384 kHz upsampling technology
• High-end tray loading CD drive mechanism (vibration de-coupled), which has exclusively been designed for audio applications
• Damped, high-quality drawer made of aluminium-ABS-compound guided with two metal bearings
• Separate D/A conversion function with 4 digital inputs: 2 x coaxial (RCA), 1 x optical and 1 x USB 2.0 (DSD512 asynchronous)
• Playback of different hi-res audio formats (WAV, FLAC, ALAC etc.) up to 512 from a PC or laptop via USB interface
• 2 separate, generously sized power supplies for laser control, digital signal processing, display control and D/A converter section
• Very high power supply capacity
• 2 x 25 VA toroidal core transformer of premium quality (“Made in Germany”) for a stable power supply
• The spatial separation of analogue and digital sections within the D/A converter for the best possible signal-to-noise ratio
• Resonance minimising metal housing
• Front panel made of finely brushed aluminium; tray cover made of massive and chromed brass
• Now again with a chrome medal on the front panel
• ACCUSTIC ARTS® remote control
• ACCUSTIC ARTS® PLAYER III is “Handmade in Germany”