Blacknote SACD 300

The SACD 300 comes directly from the CDP 300 from which it takes almost all the cosmetic and technical characteristics. As the name shows the SACD 300 is able to drive SACD disc having a dedicated DSD converter on board also. The main difference compared to the CDP 300 is the transport used. The SACD 300 is shaped around the French made GyrFalcon Super Audio CD transport improved thru the proprietary Blacknote circuit system called Natural-Speed™, that tunes the mechanic motor to virtually erase vibrations but also keep the speed during play so slow to look quite the same as an analog turntable.

The PCM digital stage, as the CDP 300, is designed around the customized DACs made by AKM (Japan) and Burr-Brown (U.S.A.). The proprietary circuit design of the DAC enable the SACD 300 a real 24bit resolution with the over-sampling 368 higher than the standard CD players. The high quality of the Digital to Analog converters and the Blacknote proprietary circuit design allow to reach a sonic performance hardly available from “standard” CD players. The Clock generator is designed around the Burr-Brown PLL1705 microchip.

The PLL1705 enables a very low jitter phase error, one of the lowest today available: 50-12 (50.000 billions of second). The power supply is made with four dedicated custom transformers. Any transformer supplies the power directly to the Digital Stage, the Analog stage, the Transport and the other CD Player powered sections including the display. The whole power supply is stabilized and rectified with sophisticated and over dimensioned Current Generators designed exclusively by Blacknote.

The extra large alpha numeric display can be customized and switched off during play mode in order to stop working any voltage power dedicated inside the unit. All the functions and operativity of the CD player are managed thru a customised & latest generation Texas-Instruments microchip pre-programmed with a special software allows any eventual necessary future up-grade of the unit. The Analog Power Supply is managed thru four OP chips singularly powered with a special multi inductive power supply. The Power supply dedicated to the mother board and the DAC board is decoupled thru two “fused silicon” transformers specially shaped by Analog Device.