What CD Player would you like to see tested?

[redjr]

Looking forward to your impressions and thoughts. Mine arrives on Saturday. Although my intentions are to use it as a transport via coax, I'd still like to hear the R2R DAC in it. I'm familiar with R2R sound(RPi HaT), but not on a commercial product. So, I'm excited to hear the FiiO version. It'll primarily be driving a S.M.S.L DO300EX DAC using Hifiman's Edition XS (EQ'd) headphones. A wonderful combination BTW.

 

[French Meloman]

I would like the Tonewinner TY-1cd to be tested. It’s a brand that hasn’t had any device measured on ASR yet. This player can read HDCDs (which has become rare), and the Chinese manufacturer seems to have designed the device by separating the internal functional blocks, which is reminiscent of what Accuphase does. Externally, the product looks well built, but are the actual performance levels up to what we should expect (at least complete transparency for 16-bit audio)?

 

[raincowboy]

I'd like to see the Sony BDP-S1700 tested, as a CD-transport (no analogue out). It's the only cheap Blu-ray player by Sony still sold in the market.

I just bought a s1700k to feed my topping e50 via coaxial, I hope it will work fine.
The other contender was the smsl pl150 but costs more than double and I don’t think is that much better compared to the little Sony bluray player.
If in the future I’ll decide to buy something better I’ll go for something with better mechanics.

 

[Viper780]

I still hope that you test some Technics CD Player (or visit me in Vienna)

 

[NTTY]

Sorry for my long silence, the beginning of 2026 kept me really busy and away from ASR.

I reviewed the Fiio DM15 and I don’t know if mine is an exception but the measured performances are simply the worst I’ve seen, by far, from a CD Player.