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   * Maximum output level: analog RCA, 2V.

   * S/PDIF output:  RCA and BNC

   * Frequency response: 20Hz-20kHz, @ 1dB.

   * Signal/noise ratio: >98dB.

   * THD: 0.01% at 1kHz, 0dBFS

   * Output impedance: 100 ohm

   * Dimension:  8.5" x 14" x 1.8"

   * Weight: 7 lbs

The CDP-8 CD Player once again demonstrates NuForce’s redefinition of audio-playback standards and value. We conceived the CDP-8 for Red-Book CD playback exclusively in order to avoid the pitfalls and compromises to which so-called universal players are prone. In recent years, advances in technology have resulted in clearly audible refinements in CD playback. However, preferring to keep abreast of newer formats, most manufacturers have declined to put their best efforts into CD playback, preferring to assume – against all evidence -- that the compact disc is obsolete.  

We at NuForce emphatically disagree. Public and private music libraries consist in the main of compact discs. It doesn’t take much insight to recognize that people with expensive CD collections are unlikely to replace them with other formats any time soon, even assuming that the vast array of CD  titles will ever reappear in these other formats.  Common sense tells us that collectors will much prefer to avail themselves of the advances in CD playback the NuForce CDP-8 exemplifies.

What is it, then, that makes the CDP-8 better?

For a start, our player employs a state-of-the-art optical drive system and powerful DSP-based decoder that fully implements Red Book error-correction capabilities. This feature alone offers a clear advantage over other strategies.  Our custom-designed DSP directs the laser servo to correct errors, thus negating data corruption before it becomes an issue.

Until now virtually all CD transports have been essentially “dumb” in that their optical drives lack the ability to recognize disk error, however minor. They simply output data, good and bad, until major problems appear. We have all experienced how scratched CDs can stutter and skip.  Only when the transport encounters big-time errors does it attempt to detect the disc’s playable areas. This approach embodies a dilemma: before the transport encounters and responds to significant errors, it passes along numerous smaller errors to the next stage, at which point an error-correction algorithm attempts to reconstruct the lost data.