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Audiolab 8200CD Player in Mint Condition, no marks or
scratches. Very low usage, almost 2 1/2 years on the storage since I used
other DAC. Still with the sticker attached on the
front display since new. You can use as Cd player, Pre-Amplifier or DAC. It has the same configuration and components of Audiolab 8300CD and Audiolab M-DAC.

Comes with: OEM Box, manual, remote control and US power cable.

OBS: This CD Player is a 220v. - "(I sell AS-IS for the age.)"

While
most CD players are designed purely for CD playback, the award winning

8200CD has been created with flexibility firmly in mind. Their

architecture is perhaps best described as a ʻDAC + CDʼ, rather than as a

CD player in the traditional sense. The DAC (Digital-to-Analogue

Converter) is the cornerstone of their design, which is why Audiolab has

chosen the Sabre 32-bit audio DAC from ESS Technology to carry out

D-to-A conversion.

The provision of digital inputs – optical,

coaxial and USB – means the 8200CD can be used to deliver top-quality

sound from all kinds of digital sources, including audio files from

computers and other media devices. Thus, all music benefits from the

superb sound quality produced by the playersʼ DAC and discrete Class A

output stages.

Comprised of over 1700 components using precision

SMT manufacturing on a 4 layer PCB, the Audiolab 8200CD is the most

advanced electronic design in Audiolab’s impressive history.

Specifications

Description
CD Player

DAC
ESS Sabre32 9018 chip

Resolution
32bits

Output Voltage
RCA: 2.05V RMS (+/-0.1dB)

XLR: 4.1V RMS (+/-0.1dB)

Frequency Response
20Hz – 20kHz

Total Harmonic Distortion
RCA: <0.00025%

XLR: <0.0008%

Crosstalk
RCA: <-120dB

XLR: <-130dB

Dynamic Range
RCA: >98dB

XLR: >100dB

Dimensions (w x h x d)
445 x 74 x 335mm

Dimensions (w x h x d)

445 x 74 x 335mm
Output Level: RCA: 2.05V RMS? XLR: 4.1V RMS
Frequency Response: 20Hz - 20kHz ±0.2dB
Total Harmonic Distortion: RCA: 0.0025%? XLR: 0.008%
Crosstalk @1KHz: RCA: 120dB XLR: 130dB
Dynamic Range 'A' wtd: RCA: 98dB XLR: 110dB
Audiolab’s 8200CD CD spinner is built by the International
Audio Group, and was designed by British electronics whizz John
Westlake.

When launched, the player was one of just a handful that used the
32-bit American ESS Technology Sabre DAC, a device which came out in the
latter part of the last decade, but which hasn’t surfaced in consumer
products very often because it is too expensive. The Sabre is a
sophisticated package, with 256 individual DACs per channel within the
chip, to increase inherent conversion resolution, while also reducing
static conversion errors. The conversion process results in the 512 DAC
elements each operating at 84.672MHz, switching 3,840 times faster than
the typical audio upper bandwidth of 22kHz – thus keeping digital noise
well away from the human ear. As per Naim’s DAC, the Sabre operates
either in integer oversampling or upsampling mode, depending on the
input sample rate. All digital word lengths are extended to 32-bits for
internal processing, and it will accept up to 24/96 in DAC mode.

Like some other machines of its generation, the 8200CD features
user-selectable digital filters which let the user tune the performance
to preference, but there are more of them than most. They include
Optimal Time Domain NOS (preferable for audio performance, slow in-band
roll-off), Optimal Time Domain ZS (preferable for audio performance, no
in-band rol- off), Optimal Frequency Domain (Measurement Mode filter),
Standard Fast roll-off and Standard Slow roll-off. In addition to the
standard supplied filters, the 8200CD allows user-upgradeable digital
filters via USB download, for future-proofing.

Along with the filtering, John Westlake took trouble over jitter
reduction with a proprietary high performance discrete master clock.
While the patented sample rate converter achieved 100% jitter
attenuation within the digital domain, external ‘analogue domain’
induced artefacts via RF breakthrough and PSU coupling affect the DAC’s
ultimate sonic performance. So Audiolab developed the Cascaded
Asynchronous Time Domain Attenuator circuit to isolate the DAC substrate
from the detrimental analogue domain of effects non-synchronous digital
input data. Three identical cascaded stages were used, with each
individual stage providing increased isolation. The 8200CD also has an
asynchronous USB mode, where the DAC effectively clock-links the
computer to its internal clock.

Careful attention was paid to the analogue output stage, with
balanced analogue XLR outputs connected directly to a pair of
proprietary Audiolab FET-based Class A stages buffers per channel. This
gave a serious improvement in RF IMD rejection and no measurable RF
rectification for a smoother sound. The unit is fully DC-coupled with no
AC coupling capacitors. High tolerance polypropylene film/foil
capacitors and special surface mount resistors are used in the signal
path, and the player has thirty four regulated supplies, fourteen of
which are ultra low noise discrete designs, combined with LC filtering
for maximal interstage and RF isolation. A total of almost 250,00uF of
bulk storage capacitance is used, and each section of the player was
independently regulated.

The result is a brilliant sounding £800 CD player, one as good as
many at twice the price in some ways. It isn’t the sweetest, silkiest or
most seductive silver disc spinner – others did and do better in
conjuring up a euphonic tonality that flatters the discs that they play.
However, what the Audiolab offers is a wonderfully expansive,
cathedral-like soundstage with pin-point image location that was so
solid it feels like it is set in stone. And it’s also able to make music
in a way not normally associated with digital – it carries rhythms with
utter faithfulness where normal CD players simply walk on by