Mission 778CDT

Compact half-width CD transport with coaxial and optical digital outputs and file playback from USB.

778CDT: the design

The 778CDT is the CD transport of the 778 series: it has no converter inside, it reads the disc and hands the digital signal to the DAC in the 778X amplifier or to an outboard converter. Servo control keeps rotation stable and corrects read errors; the clock is a temperature-compensated crystal oscillator, which cuts jitter.

Mechanism, laser, decoder and clock have separate low-noise supplies. Through the USB port it also plays music files from sticks and drives. It has the same size and style as the 778X and the 778S streamer, and stacks with them; the remote handles the other two as well.

Specifications

• CD transport with no internal converter
• Discs: audio CD, recordable and rewritable CD, data CD
• Files from USB: WAV, FLAC, APE, MP3, WMA, AAC
• Digital outputs: 1 coaxial, 1 optical
• Clock with temperature-compensated oscillator (TCXO)
• OLED display with CD Text
• Remote control supplied
• Width, height, depth: 236 x 98 x 357 mm
• Weight: 5.04 kg
• Finishes: black, silver