Pre-Owned Naim CD5 CD Player - Compact Disc Player High End Audiophile Black + Remote
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Features
| Coaxial Digital Output | No |
|---|---|
| Optical Digital Output | No |
| Includes Pre Amp | No |
| Brand Color | None |
| Includes DAC Digital Inputs | No |
| USB Digital Output | No |
| AES/EBU Digital Output | No |
| Warranty The length of time your product is protected by warranty | None |
| Remote Control | No |
| Upsampling Feature | No |
| Product Type | Other |
Tech Specs
- CD5: Single-box CD player.
- Frequency response: 10Hz-20kHz, +0.1dB, -0.5dB.
- Output level: 2.0V RMS at 1kHz.
- Output impedance: 10 ohms max.
- Phase response: linear phase, absolute-phase correct.
- De-emphasis: ±0.25dB referred to main response.
- Distortion and noise: ±0.1%, 10Hz-18kHz at full level.
- Dimensions: 16¾" W by 1 7/8" H by 11¾" D.
Description
The CD5 is an update of the Naim 3.5, it has the look and feel of luxury. The CD5's chassis is an update of Naim's unique design motif: a black box highlighted by a 3D Naim logo backlit in green.
There are backlit buttons for Previous, Next, Play, and Stop, and the LED panel displaying track number and elapsed playing time. The On/Off switch is on the rear, with the DIN jacks for analog out and for connecting an optional Flatcap 2 outboard power supply.
Similar to the more expensive CDX, the CD5 uses Naim's exclusive hand-operated "oven-door" drive access, which is fast, convenient, simple, and rigid. The transport is the Philips' VAM 1205, which Naim uses in all of its CD players, is built into the swing-out door and decoupled from it by an elastomer mounting system. The door's tray surface is coated with an infrared-absorbing material that keeps stray laser light from bouncing around.
A small puck—part of the low-inertia magnetic clamping system used here and in other Naim players—holds the CD in place and gives the loading process the feel of a high-end LP turntable. NO long do you have to suffer jittery drawers slowly opening
The CD5's key components are also off the shelf, such as Philips' SAA7376 servo-controller and TDA 1305 4x-oversampling, 18-bit digital filter/DAC combo chip; and the Burr-Brown op-amp analog output chips. The difference is how Naim implements these parts.
Naim's proprietary operating software, written for their original top-of-the-line player, the CDS, controls the servo and all other operating parameters; it, too, affects the sound quality, according to George. A Naim-designed seven-pole output-filtering stage removes ultra-high-frequency garbage from the final signal, and the board on which all this circuitry is mounted is elastomer-decoupled from the chassis to reduce micro-phonics.