Micromega CD20 CD Player – Black

Here we have a well-regarded CD20 CD Player from French company Micromega, it comes in good condition with a small blemish on the front panel – please see photographs. We supplied this originally and it has just come back to us. It is supplied in original factory packaging along with remote control, manual, mains cable and our standard 3 month warranty.
Micromega Say….
The heritage of the CD range CD20 is an enhanced version of the CD10 player, widely recognized as being a best seller in its category due to excellent sound quality and first class reliability. At MICROMEGA we set our heart on developing a CD player whose performances would be exceptional while maintaining unbeatable value for money.
Made entirely out of metal, the frame’s role is to provide a stable and rigid base for the CD mechanism. It also protects the CD’s electronic circuits against external electromagnetic disturbances and high frequency exposure, which are very common in today’s environment. The aluminium front panel adds a special touch to all of the models of this range, providing an impression of elegant soberness, where minimalism and user-friendliness combine harmoniously. The blue 10 character dot matrix display, driven by MICROMEGA software, displays all necessary information in real time. The aluminium anodized top cover, which comes in either black or silver, matches the front panel perfectly. The brushed effect of the front panel gives the product an unrivalled distinctive touch.
For the analogue section, CD20 benefits from the latest MICROMEGA ACTS® power supply technology.
Due to the success of DVD, DVD mechanisms produced today are of top, reliable quality, simply because they are mass produced and therefore subject to extremely tough quality control procedures inherent to mass production. The mechanism control is ensured by a Philips SAA78247 circuit and a MICROMEGA proprietary software program featuring error correction algorithms which are particularly efficient and designed for audio reproduction.
CD20 calls upon one of the best dedicated digital-analogue converters currently available. We chose the Analog Devices AD1853 because of its unbeatable value for money. This converter with its dynamics of 110dB, its signal to noise ratio of 112dB and its THD + Noise figure of < -100dB is the ideal converter for treating signals from the SAA7824 as accurately as possible. The power supply with constant current source and shunt regulators ensures total immunity from external disturbances. The local decoupling ensured by very low inductance, very low series resistance capacitors, guarantees better signal integrity for the analogue stages. The signals generated by the SAA7824 enter the AD1853 at 44.1 kHz. They are converted internally and oversampled 8 times in a digital filter whose out of band rejection is higher than 115 dB, pushing very far back from the audio band the first images of the digital filters. That makes it possible to have analogue filters of a relatively low order while minimizing the energy transmitted out of the band. The design of the printed circuit is critically important and the MICROMEGA team put all its know-how into this part, which represented a challenge in more ways than one. The circuit, which was designed using the most modern software, is optimized to take into account the extraordinary possibilities of the selected components. Any design error can be costly, both in terms of measurements and listening quality.
To produce a CD player at a reasonable price is not easy when your aim is to achieve the highest level of musical reproduction, which is as faithful and transparent as possible. CD20 reaches that point admirably and the thousands of owners of this model are only full of praise. For once you can rightly appreciate the positive effects of a rumour. CD20 will make you love music.
Specifications:
Native Sampling Frequency: 44.1 kHz
Native Resolution: 16 bits
Linearity at –100dB: 0.5 dB
Signal to Noise Ratio + THD: < -100dB to 1 kHz
Crosstalk: > 100dB to 1 kHz
Output Impedance: < 600 Ω
Output Level: 2V RMS / 0 dB
Power Consumption: 25 W
Dimensions: 430 (W) x 265 (D) x 69 (H) mm
Weight: 4.5 kg

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