• Elegant design.

• Player is based on the most advanced Philips CD-PRO 2 linear tracking pick-up mechanism.

• Top loading pick-up assembly housed in a multi anti-vibration construction made of custom aluminum alloy chassis.

• 24-bit/192KHz up-sampling is accomplished by SRC4193 IC.

• Digital to analog conversion is performed by 2¡ÁBurr-Brown PCM1794 DAC chip.

• Burr-Brown OPA604 FET devices used in gain stage.

• Low pass filtering is performed by 2Analog Devices AD627.

• 4 x Russian EH6922 tube with gold-plated legs provide unbalanced analog ouput.

Shanling CD-T1500 New $2750

We couldn't help wondering why it sounded so good so we peeked inside.  Shanling uses premium parts throughout, it's very impressive build quality.