CXC

CD TRANSPORT

• Detailed playback of audio CDs.
• State-of-the-art, proprietary S3 Servo to regulate the disc speed and ensure error free playback.
• Digital only output for a clean signal.
• All metal case isolates components, ensuring peak performance.
• Floating design.

转盘 CD 播放器

• 细腻的音频 CD 播放。
• 先进的专有 S3 伺服器调节光盘速度并确保无错误播放
• 仅数字输出，确保信号清晰
• 全金属外壳隔离组件，确保最佳性能
• 悬浮式设计。

CX SERIES 2. THE SOUND OF PROGRESS.

Half a decade after the CX range redefined performance at its price point, it’s time to reimagine, reengineer and reinvigorate. 

Now finished in Lunar Grey to match the rest of the CX Series 2 range, the award-winning CXC delivers stunning audio quality from your CD collection.

CX 系列 2。进步之声。

CX 系列以其卓越的性价比重新定义声音呈现至今已有五年之久，是时候进行重新的演绎与设计，以焕发全新活力。 

屡获殊荣的 CXC 以 Lunar Grey 月光灰色焕新设计，搭配 CX 系列 2 的其他产品，为您提供卓越的 CD 音频音乐播放体验。

WHAT GOES AROUND COMES AROUND

The compact disc format has been around long enough to include an enormous catalogue of music of all types, and to have become very affordable. Even the most evangelical devotee of music streaming will concede there’s plenty of life in the little silver disc yet. The CXC will let you extract every last drop of musical enjoyment from your CD collection.

传承卓越设计

CD 唱片由来已久，能够播放几乎所有类型的音乐，价格也十分实惠。即使是最新派的流媒体爱好者也不得不承认小小的银色 CD 唱片包含了丰富的生活内涵。CXC 让您尽享 CD 唱片的音乐乐趣。

BE TRANSPORTED

There’s absolute purity of purpose to the CXC. It’s built to read the digital audio information on a CD with absolute, unerring accuracy, and then pass it on to a digital-to-analogue convertor (such as the extremely high-quality DACs found in Cambridge’s outstanding new CXA61 and CXA81 integrated amplifiers). Every CXC component is focused only on extracting every iota of information from the disc in its tray.

转盘 CD 播放器

CXC 的设计是绝对的以目的为导向。它的设计理念是以绝对无误的准确性读取 CD 上的数字音频信息，然后将其传递给数模转换器（例如 Cambridge Audio 新品 CXA61 和 CXA81 的集成扩音器中的超高品质 DAC）。每一件 CXC 组件仅专注于从光盘中提取所有信息。

PRECISION DRIVING

The disc drive in the CXC was originally developed by Cambridge Audio for its high-end 851C CD player. It’s our renowned ‘S3’ servo design, and it has class-leading levels of jitter rejection and error correction - no multi-purpose drive is able to compete with the the CXC’s levels of precision and stability.

精密驱动

CXC 中的光盘驱动器最初是 Cambridge Audio 为高端 851C CD 播放器而专门开发的。这就是我们著名的 S3 伺服系统，它具有一流的抖动抑制和纠错能力，目前还没有一款多功能驱动器能够与 CXC 的精度和稳定性相媲美。

DIGITAL AUDIO OUTPUTS

S/PDIF coaxial and TOSLINK optical

S/PDIF OUTPUT IMPEDANCE

<75 Ohms

MAX POWER CONSUMPTION

25W

STANDBY POWER CONSUMPTION

<0.5W

GAPLESS PLAYBACK?

Yes

REMOTE CONTROL

Yes

DIMENSIONS (H X W X D)

85 x 430 x 315mm (3.1 x 16.9 x 12.4”)

WEIGHT

4.7kg (10.3lbs)

BOX CONTENTS

CXC CD Transport, Power Cable, 3 x AAA Batteries, Remote Control, Control Bus Cable

Cambridge Audio CXC review

Best CD transport under £500, Awards 2015. If you already have a DAC, this superb-sounding CD transport makes perfect sense Tested at £300

By What Hi-Fi? July 24, 2015

OUR VERDICT

If you’ve already got a good DAC, the Cambridge CXC transport is a no-brainer

FOR

• Musicality and muscle
• Well-built
• Simple to use
• Good remote control

AGAINST

• It requires an external DAC to become a CD player

The Cambridge CXC is a real sign of the times in the world of hi-fi. A CD transport, rather than a CD player, this unit does the vital work of reading the information held on a compact disc, but doesn’t waste its effort in turning that digital signal into an analogue output.

As with many pieces of stand-alone hi-fi, the theory goes that using separate pieces of kit to do individual jobs will almost always provide a superior sound. This, it seems, is the case with the Cambridge CXC.

First things first, though. The CXC is a nicely made piece of equipment, its machined-metal chassis feeling every penny of the £300 you’ll pay for it. It is built, not unreasonably, to match the rest of Cambridge’s impressive CX range, including the CXN streamer and two integrated stereo amplifiers, the CXA60 and the CXA80.

As well as looking good, the CXC has some decent components in it, including the single-speed transport and proprietary S3 Servo that it shares with the Cambridge Audio Azur 851C (£1200).

In many ways this is a positive, but it does mean that the CXC is restricted to doing one thing: reading CDs – no SACDs or MP3 CDs here. Happily, it does that one thing very well.

At the rear are ports to connect the transport to other members of the CX family, and two digital outputs – one S/PDIF coaxial, and a Toslink optical digital. You can use this transport, then, with any DAC that you might already own.

After a couple of days’ running in, we match the CXC with the Award-winning Arcam irDac (£400) – and they make a quite formidable pairing.

Performance

Listening to a CD of The Dark Knight OST we are immediately impressed with the precision of the sound the pair provide. Crisp, precise treble is married to a snappy, well-defined bassline that really drives the music along.

There’s a real musicality to the piece that can get lost on lesser players, with organic, fluid interplay between instruments.

We’re so impressed that we look to our £1000 reference Naim CD5Si CD player to make a comparison. The Naim just trumps the CXC/irDAC combination for outright musicality, but there’s a decent price hike between the two as well.

As a contrast, we also measure the combo against the Award-winning Marantz CD6005 (£300). This is a CD player with its own DAC on board, so you would expect the CXC and Arcam pair to outdo it, but the improvement in sound of the separates pairing over the all-in-one player is immediately obvious.

Timing and the interplay between instruments are better, more organic, more fluid, more expressive. And the Marantz, remember, is a rather brilliant £300 CD player.

Does that mean we’d take the Cambridge over the Marantz? Not necessarily. The two units are similarly priced, but the Cambridge CXC is useless without a DAC to marry to it.

Verdict

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And that’s where our comment about it being a modern product for a new hi-fi world comes in. The once humble digital to analogue converter is becoming a ubiquitous and increasingly vital hi-fi component.

And if you’ve already got a good DAC, we would not hesitate to recommend the Cambridge CXC over a standalone CD player to link to it. You’ll have to spend a good deal more than £300 to match the sound quality it offers.