Luxman D-06u CD/SACD Player (With USB DAC)

The D-06u has been painstakingly designed to make the most of both CDs and SACDs, whilst also offering coaxial, optical and asynchronous USB inputs for external digital sources, thus enabling them to benefit from the player’s exemplary digital and analogue output circuitry.

The USB audio connection is compatible with both PC and MAC. The super audio cd player features the LxDTM, or Luxman Original Disc Transport Mechanism – our ultra-stable hardware for the most efficient of CD playback enabling you to enjoy your music at the highest quality. As the successor model to the D-06 that enabled a new-found sound for appreciators of high quality audio via CD, the updated version is set to change the game for the level of quality via USB, on your PC or Mac.

The new Luxman D-06u SACD player use PCM1792A chips working in the dual-mono configuration. It supports both the PCM and DSD files reproduction. Through the USB input a maximum signal quality is with PCM 32/384 and DSD 5.6 MHz. When signal is send via optical and coaxial inputs it can handle 24/192. If the local computer digital musical archive is used, Luxman developed a special player, that works both with PCs and Macs, that also supports AIFF and Apple Lossless format.

The player’s digital circuits incorporate a Burr-Brown PCM1792A D/A converter, supporting not only CD and SACD playback, but also PCM data up to 32-bit/384kHz and DSD data up to 5.64MHz via the USB input. This is a far higher specification than that required by most current music formats, ensuring the D-06u is fully equipped for future advances in ultra-high-definition digital sound.

The D/A converter chip combines with Texas Instruments’ TAS3152 32-bit digital signal processor, which upsamples PCM data to 384kHz and supplies three digital filter options for PCM, plus a pair of tone settings for DSD. Jitter (digital distortion) is reduced in three ways: for USB signals, by the dedicated DSP via asynchronous communication; for CD and S/PDIF signals, by the embedded DAIR high-precision clock; and for SACD signals, by a dedicated jitter reduction chip. In addition, a low phase noise clock module improves the accuracy of the entire signal transmission

The D-06u’s analogue output stage is of the highest quality, utilising audiophile-grade components in a fully balanced configuration with a regulated, high-inertia power supply. Build quality is exemplary, as it is throughout the Luxman range, right down to the cast-iron, resonance-reducing feet. The player comes with dedicated ‘Luxman Audio Player’ software for PC/Mac, enabling a wide range of digital audio formats to play through the D-06u via the USB input, including FLAC, ALAC, WAV, AIFF, MP3, DSF and DSIDIFF.