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Chord Electronics Red Reference CD Player
Chord Electronics Red Reference CD Player Ref: CHORD/RR

At last it's here the Chord product you have all been waiting for. Building on the success of the Blu and the DAC64 the Red Reference CD player has been designed as the ultimate source component. With stunning looks and state of the art design the RED utilises ground breaking technology to give the most accurate reproduction of compact disc that can be obtained. With internal 176.4KHz upsampling data transfer, selectable RAM buffer clock retiming and both 1024 and 4096 tap length filtering the Red earns its reference status in the Chord range

FOR CUSTOMERS WISHING TO UPGRADE FROM THE BLU and DAC 64 TO THE RED REFERENCE WE OFFER A GENEROUS TRADE IN ALLOWANCE. PLEASE CONTACT US ON 01733 344768


PLEASE NOTE. CHORD ELECTRONICS ARE NOT AVAILABLE TO PURCHASE ONLINE.

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Price:   £13,345.00  (Including: VAT at 17.5%)

Chord Electronics Blu CD Transport
Chord Electronics Blu CD Transport Ref: CBLU

State-of-the-art, ultra-high resolution transport offers unequalled musical performance with the DAC64.

The Chord CD Transport has been designed to match, both in performance and style, the highly successful DAC64 and also completes the Chord Choral range. For the first time customers can complete their Chord system with a truly stunning source component. Called Blu the CD Transport shares the same ground breaking technology that has made the DAC64 one of the most successful Digital to Analogue Converters ever produced. As a dedicated state-of-the-art, 2-channel CD Transport, Blu takes full advantage of the WTA Filter technology used in the DAC by having it's own 4096-tap, 80-bit WTA filter.

Blu delivers an astonishingly life-like musical performance. This ultra high resolution system delivers far more detail than conventional sources. One can hear more air and space, better separation of instruments, subtle nuances and inner detail. Layers and textures of instruments are more easily discernible.

All this without the usual negative trade-offs associated with digital sources. In fact, Blu is smoother and more natural sounding with a distinctly accurate timbre resulting in a more organic, realistic sound. Finally, with a deep wide soundstage and almost perfect timing, Blu delivers the energy, vitality and excitement of the original performance. Blu offers a huge, dramatic, "night and day" sonic improvement, which will be noticed immediately.


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Please contact us on 01733 344768 to book a demonstration on this stunning CD TRANSPORT .







 


Price:   £4,910.00  (Including: VAT at 17.5%)

Chord Electronics QBD76 (Digital to Analogue Converter )
Chord Electronics QBD76 (Digital to Analogue Converter ) Ref: QBD76

Building on the huge success of the award winning DAC64 the QBD76 is now able to take digital to analogue conversion to a new level with improvements in performance and sound reproduction not seen anywhere else. Added to this a unique Bluetooth digital audio receiver has been designed to enhance connectivity so that you can stream high quality music wirelessly from a Bluetooth enable phone, PDA or personal computer.
With its ground breaking sound performance and features the QBD76 defines the future of digital music playback.

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Price:   £3,000.00  (Including: VAT at 17.5%)

Chord Electronics ONE CD Player
Chord Electronics ONE CD Player Ref: CHORD/ONE

From the same design stable as the world-beating DAC64 and Blu upsampling CD transport, the new 'ONE' integrated player offers exemplary CD replay. 'ONE' forms part of Chord's Choral Series of designer hi-fi - perfect for music lovers with a sense of style.

‘ONE’ features the same professional die-cast CD mechanism and isolated top-loading arrangement as Chord's flagship Blu CD transport. The latest 24-bit 192kHz devices provide digital-analogue conversion. A fully buffered, true balanced analogue output stage ensures the best possible musical performance.

RCA and XLR balanced analogue outputs, plus BNC SPDIF coaxial digital ensures compatibility with a wide variety of audio systems. 'One' can also be upgraded by adding the DAC64.

ONE is now available in Brilliant (pictured), Satin Silver and Satin Black finishes.

Product Specifications:

Frequency Response: 20Hz – 20kHz +/- 0.2dB
Total Harmonic Distortion: < 0.003% 20Hz to 20kHz
DAC Architecture: 24-bit 192kHz Delta-Sigma, 128x oversampling
Laser Mechanism: Philips CD-Pro2M
Signal-noise ratio: 106dB A-weighted
Channel Separation: 100dB @ 1kHz
Analogue Outputs: 2 x RCA-phono single ended, 2 x XLR balanced
Digital Outputs: 1x BNC digital Coaxial SPDIF
Weight: 7 Kg
Dimensions (mm): 335 x 105 x 170 (W x H x D


 


Price:   £3,504.99  (Including: VAT at 17.5%)

Chord Electronics Chordette GemChord Electronics Chordette Gem Ref: CHOR/CHORDETTE

Chord Electronics Chordette Gem

24 bit DAC with Bluetooth Connectivity

Available in silver or black.

Chord Electronics have come up with an intriguing alternative to the ubquitous iPod dock. This is the Chordette Gem, a Bluetooth device for transferring digital music from your mobile phone to your hi-fi.

The Chordette Gem is the first in a new range of lower cost products designed to integrate within any existing HiFi system. The Gem has our unique Bluetooth Audio receiver technolgy to allow the transfer of music from a Bluetooth enabled phone, PDA or personal computer. The addition of a USB port also allows direct streaming of audio from a PC

Recently launched in London, the Gem is one of the most affordable products the high-end hi-fi company has ever produced, retailing at £399.99

The idea came to Chord Electronics founder John Franks when he was initially thinking of developing a conventional iPod dock for the company's high-end hi-fi systems.

"We realised young people, those under 30, are downloading a vast number of tracks, not only to iPods but also to mobile phones," says Franks. "A vast amount of music is locked into phones and simply wasn't being connected to home hi-fi systems."

Through a contact at Nokia, Franks and his team were put in touch with some of the original Bluetooth development team set up between Nokia and Sony Ericsson. They explained that there is an unused, high-quality digital datastream in Bluetooth A2DP-enabled phones that no-one was using.

Chord realised this could be used for the effective wireless transfer of music from phone to hi-fi. The result is the Chordette Gem, a small, 24-bit digital-to-analogue (DAC) converter that can lock on to a wide variety of mobile phones with A2DP (Advanced Audio Distribution Profile) Bluetooth connectivity.

The user simply gets the phone to search for any Bluetooth devices, selects the Gem and once the two are synched, the Gem will relay music from the phone via conventional analogue phono outputs into the back of an amp or hi-fi system.

There's also a USB socket so you can stream music directly via a wired connection from your PC to the Gem.

"The standard Bluetooth signal used for in-car hands-free systems is low-quality mono," explains Franks, "but A2DP is designed as a higher quality stereo signal for the transfer of music."

For those with deeper pockets, and top-end music systems, Chord Electronics has also added the technology to its new top-of-the-range QBD76 DAC, the replacement for the DAC 64, which sells for £3000

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Price:   £398.99  (Including: VAT at 17.5%)
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