The RCD-101 – Reference Series CD-Player

It is a true balanced CD-Player, transport & DAC, based on the technologies used in our famous RCD-100. As the Philips CDPro2LF was discontinued, we desided not to continue offering a CD-Player in the Reference Series.

However shortly after we announced to our partner net- work, that we would discontinue the RCD-100, we received an overwhelming number of requests to find a solution, and continue offering a Reference Series CD-Player. As replace- ment drive, we selected to use a Sony SACD drive and completely strip it, and rebuild it, like we have always done.

The drive has been heavily modified to meet our demands for precission, leaving the error correction system with less work to do. This ensures optimal working conditions for the Sample Rate Conversion and DAC. At the same time – we carefully selected a new USB interface which supports DSD and needs no drivers. But not only that, we completely overhauled all other electronics and optimized everything possible to maximize the resulting performance.

We also added an AES/EBU (XLR) digital input and output,
in addition to the RCA I/O, which offers more flexibility when used as a DAC for other digital sources – for connecting multimedia players, PC/MAC or other digital sources.

The powersupply is more powerfull which resaults in greater dynamics and lower noise though multiple regulation stages.

Overall this new version of the RCD-100 – is just in a different leaque. The overall upgrades have resulted in a performence lift we did not anticipate – directly compared with our old SCD-010 – It’s a clear winner, and now with DSD support.