AMC CD9 CD-player

This player is well-recognizable because it looks like our old friend, its predecessor CD8. CD9 also has 18-bit DAC and digital filter with 8x oversampling. A traditional minimalism of the firm is felt in the absence of headphones output, adjustment of output, and many other editing functions while recording. For those who are interested in the details we will note that there is the inscription on the mains transformer about its belonging to audiophile components of AMC. In full accordance with the ideology of the company CD9 is the typical device for stereo complex, where the main, if not the only, source of high-quality music programs is CD player. Such approach is confirmed by lack of random replay mode. If the player is turned on, so please listen seriously and carefully: this player is not for pub. In addition, you should be careful while programming. First, entry of the track's number is made only by a sequential moving through all tracks from the panel or remote control. And this is despite the fact that a direct start mode by number from the remote panel is present. Secondly, after filling the memory of 21 tracks when you continue programming, it starts again reprogramming the memory cells staring with the first, etc. However, the plus is that reset happens only after opening the tray. The remote control is quite descriptive but can't be called very convenient, especially when you try to turn pause on or A-B repeat after the search of a track.

The results of measurements showed the full compliance of analog output signal of this player with a modern one with average level of quality. Low internal output impedance (ab. 80 Ohms) of linear output is really noteworthy, because at other equal conditions reduces the influence of interconnect cables with which the player connects to the amplifier.

Sure as hell, the situation is more common for CD players when the sound's character of one device is little different from the other. Sometimes it is easier to finds the same features, which the hearing perceives with gratitude like at the meeting with an old friend. Above mentioned refers to AMC's attitude toward overall scale of stereo panorama and three-dimensional occurrences (the space of a concert hall definitely was not flat in this case). The subject turned out to be a traditionally careful to basses, elaborating all low-amplitude signals, starting with sub-harmonic components of lower registers and tonal richness of male voices in the general chorus and ending with weightiness of the hall's atmosphere, which literally breathed by the intension of the first reflections. Speaking about the accuracy of the localization of solo singer at the stage, AMC did not seek to push the voice forward or move the listeners closer, but to hold the soloist in focus was hard to it. The device could keep the depth of stage, keeping at the same time the feeling that the signer's voice became so "bigger" and richer that you could touch it...