CEDIA 2010 Coverage

September 27, 2010

Moon (Simaudio)

Simaudio had a fairly large display with their products strategically arrayed on credenzas around a couple of sofas. Here is some of their two channel stuff, all of which I think is well designed and solidly built with high-quality parts.

Here is their new 650D CD transport and DAC with AES/EBU, S/PDIF, TosLink and USB digital inputs ($8,000), which uses the ESS Sabre32 DAC chips, sitting on top of their new 600i 125 watts/channel integrated amplifier ($8,000).

Also new is the Small 100D DAC ($699). Inexpensive, it can both accept and upsample to 192/24. It has S/PDIF, TosLink and USB inputs.

That is the 310LP balanced phono preamp ($1,799) perched on top of the CD .5 CD player ($1,299) and i .5 40 watts/channel integrated amplifier ($1,299).

The 350P preamp ($2,499) sitting on top of a pair of 400M 400 watts/channel monoblocks ($4,299 each). The 350P has a full compliment of digital inputs.

Even more expensive are the 750D CD transport and DAC ($11,999) and the 700i 175 watts/channel integrated amplifier ($11,999). Like Simaudio’s other digital products, it has a full range of digital inputs, including USB.