CD21 Compact Disc Player

The Sugden CD21 compact disc player has been specially developed to allow the listener to take advantage of the musical prowess of the A21a pure Class A integrated amplifier. It is designed with music in mind not ‘bells and whistles’.  Corner stoned by a Sugden-modified Philips CD head and dac 7 servo the output feeds a Sugden D.A. converter and analogue output board. The circuits are powered by no less than six regulated dc power supplies to minimise HF spuriae and protect the sanctity of the musical performance. The converter used is a hybrid, bit stream/multi bit unit which gives respective benefits in the low and mid frequencies. The analogue converter is via a discrete component DC-coupled Class A output stage. This combination results in a CD player with the ability to develop the complete music spectrum, with natural dynamics and a clean sweet extended top end.

Sugden CD21A

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CD21SE Compact Disc Player

Utilising the same CD transport as the CD21, the SE version has been further enhanced by a more sophisticated analogue output stage and further discrimination in the regulated power supplies. 

Sugden CD21SE

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Masterclass PDT-4 Compact Disc Player

Rescuing music from the technology of compact disc is an art form and the Masterclass CD player is the consummate artist. The Sugden PDT-4 is the ultimate seamless fusion of digital and analogue technology creating ‘simply more music’. From the retrieval of the Bits from the disc through the decoding, filtering, shaping, DA conversion and analogue output, ultimate care is taken to reconstruct the original performance. There are no spuriae infesting the power supplies and a special suction loop filter is employed to remove hf noise from the analogue signal prior to the analogue output stage.

Sugden Master Class

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