Sound Monitor CDT 450X Eclipse

Description

Brought new in 2010 from Japan. Car Audio CD Player.
Sound Monitor is a product of the luxury division of Fujitsu Tep, which addresses this model to the most demanding sound lovers in the car. It is easy to guess that its appearance and even the very fact of its appearance CDT-450X owes its previous participant - the appearance and layout of this receiver is almost completely copy of Mcintosh but with some evolution in ergonomics.However, the Sound Monitor design is clearly more restrained, especially if you turn on and compare both devices. The block diagram of the device is also close to its progenitor - it uses a similar digital filter and hybrid DAC, combining the advantages and disadvantages of multi-bit R / 2R-npeo-generators and more modern microcircuits using the principle of delta-sigma conversion. Please note that the heart of the device - a chip labeled PCM69U - is about ten years old.The older model of the series, which uses an external converter, already has a modern chipset. As a result, the Sound Monitor CDT-450X, along with its younger brother CDT-350X, is not just rare, but literally unique, literally located at the intersection of technologies of the past and the present. Despite the fact that the chassis of the SM is almost the same as that of the simpler Eclipse models, the similarities end there - the SM does not have a built-in amplifier, digital processor, and other attributes of modern head units. Similar to McLntosh, Sound Monitor - is a pure CD player. The sound of the SM is further confirmation of the undeniable relationship between the selected type of D / A converter and sound quality. Since the CDT450X uses a hybrid circuit, it represents a trade-off between serial and multi-bit audio. If you try to explain it figuratively, then imagine that the detailed, legible and restrained basis of Nakamichi has acquired the cohesion and solidity of Blaupunkt's sound. The result is tonally balanced, reasonably dense and comfortable sound.