The A1 CD Pro is a top quality CD player. As everybody knows, sound quality starts at the beginning with the information gathering system. The A1 CD Pro uses the Philips CD Pro 2 mechanism. This is the best CD mechanism in the world. It is normally used in very expensive CD players such as the Nagra (UK retail £8,500). The same mechanism is used in the A1 CD Pro. There is no CD player anywhere, at any price, that has a better mechanism. And that’s the starting point for the A1 CD Pro!

Following on from the Philips CD Pro 2 mechanism we have a 24-bit 192K upsampling DAC, state-of-the-art filter and output technology as used in our X-DACv8 (rated by John Atkinson, Editor of Stereophile, as state-of-the-art).

All-in-all the A1 CD Pro is the synthesis of a series of simple ideas.

1. Take the best CD mechanism in the world.
2. Take the best DAC system in the world.
3. Put them together in a beautiful package.
4. Beat up the suppliers to get killer prices on all parts.
5. Make large quantities.
6. Make a fair profit margin.

Sounds pretty obvious doesn’t it? That’s what we’ve done and the result is one of the best, if not the best, CD players in the world regardless
of price.