STATEMENT

Gerhard Hirt has been talking about the end of the Super Audio CD world for many years, ever since I met him. And he is right when he says that it is a tiny niche within the small niche of extreme audio. On the other hand, it is a format that still has its followers and that includes many great albums that are still being released, mainly with classical music and jazz. And, ultimately, we are striving to obtain the best sound possible, without looking back at anything, so we even use the copies of analog master tapes, even though they are representatives of the niche of niches! And, for all those people, the SACD CD-35 HF Edition player will still be one of the best options. If you want something on a similar, or perhaps even higher level, but not exactly the same thing, you will need to spend much more money, without any guarantee that it will be a success. It is totally different if our main digital medium is the Compact Disc. It is because Gerhard with his coworkers and friends has managed to design a really incredible player. It has everything that the MkI offers, adding better differentiation, focus, imaging and vividness. It shows sound a little further away from us, but – by some miracle – it is not smaller, but bigger! It is simply a better CD player than the MkI. It wonderfully proves how progress in the domain of digital signal processing – the PCM-DSD converter – and improvements in the analog path bring about real progress – progress that we could only dream about a few years ago.