Special Design Features; Flexible Graphical User Interface; Highly Refined Circuit Design; Extensive Listening Tests - Classe CDP-100 Manuel Du Propriétaire

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Special Design Features

flexible graphical
The LCD touchscreen on the front panel of your new component supports an
user interface
extremely flexible and versatile graphical user interface (GUI) while maintaining a
clean, uncluttered appearance. The CDP-100 provides a range of controls that might
otherwise require dozens of buttons and knobs on the front panel. Despite this power
and flexibility, it remains simple to operate in day-to-day use.
highly refined
All Classé analog amplification stages, including those supporting the analog outputs
circuit design
of your new CD player, are based on circuits that have been extensively optimized over
many years of continuous development.
By starting with excellent circuit designs and working with them over the years, we are
able to discover the many small refinements that add up to superlative performance in a
variety of applications. Altering a voltage here or using a slightly different part there may
make all the difference between solid and absolutely outstanding performance.
This level of refinement only comes with a great deal of experience, and is not available
to those who flit from one trendy notion to the next. It accounts in no small measure for
both the consistency of sonic performance among Classé products (as they are all based
on similar analog gain stages), and for the consistently excellent reviews these products
receive from owners and reviewers alike.
extensive listening tests Excellent measured performance is to be expected in world-class products, and Classé
products deliver that performance. However, experience has shown that technical
excellence alone is insufficient to guarantee subjectively musical results.
For this reason, all Classé products are laboriously fine-tuned during the development
process by carefully controlled listening tests. Our ears are still some of the finest
laboratory test instruments available, and nicely complement more traditional
engineering test equipment. In the course of optimizing the circuitry for a product,
hundreds of decisions are made based on the subjective impression given by substituting
one high quality part for another.
As an example, we may listen to half a dozen 0.1% film resistors of the same value, from
several different companies. Standard tests may show them all to provide identical results
in terms of noise, distortion, and so forth. Yet, almost invariably, one selection yields
some small improvement in the subjective reaction to the performance of the product
under development. Less often, even a single such change can result in a surprisingly
large improvement.
Multiply those various improvements by the dozens or even hundreds of such decisions
that must be made before the product can be finalized for production, and you have a
remarkable improvement, indeed – all based on careful listening tests, which we view as
a necessary complement to the solid engineering you might rightly expect from Classé.
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