Rotel RCD-1572

If you're like me, you want the sound from your compact discs to be just like the artist intended. Rotel's top-of-the-line RCD-1572 CD player is the culmination of all the company's audio know-how. And it delivers a heightened, audiophile-grade listening experience with ease. Inside the RCD-1572 If you take a peek under its sleek metal chassis, you'll find a lot to drool over. The '1572 uses a premium Wolfson WM8740 digital filter/digital-to-analog converter chip that can handle sources up to 24-bit/192kHz. You may be thinking that's a little high for CDs, at 16-bit/44.1kHz — and on paper it is. But Rotel wanted to give the player some digital headroom since the DAC chip is the most important piece between the CD's 1s and 0s and the analog signals we can hear. The player also boasts some serious post-DAC components. Refusing to compromise, Rotel tested tons of capacitors, resistors, and inductors before implementing the few that made a notable difference in sound quality. The company also put in one of the...