EMM Labs XDS1 CD/SACD Reference Player/Converter

Phil Gold has posted a review of theEMM Labs XDS1 CD/SACD Reference Player/Converter ($25,000) at Superior Audio. His conclusions:

n short, SACD performance is raised to unmatched levels in my experience, while CD comes closer than ever before to SACD. In every single area of performance, resolution, timing, transient response, decay, image size and depth, frequency response, dynamics and tone color, the XDS1 improves on all digital players I have heard before. I’m sure one day this machine will be surpassed, and maybe that will be by some future model from Ed Meitner, but for now, this is the state-of-the-art, and as musically satisfying a machine as I could wish. For that reason, and for how it performs in comparison with other expensive hardware, I am forced to admit it represents good value for money too. You can’t get there for less.

The EMM Labs XDS1 CD/SACD Reference Player/Converter won a Superior Audio 2010 Product of the Year Award.

You can read the full review here.