One more CD player - Primare D20 mkI

jeudi 17 mars 2016

Another CD player - Primare CD20 this time. Bought cheaply (£40

) with a fault, not reading discs - so I fitted my first cdm12.4/05 (had a spare I bought for my Micromega) - pain in the ass job! All fairly straightforward if long winded, except for how to get the laser mech away from the sled assembly - held in place by rubber suspension...which self-destruct pretty easily if you are not real careful when trying to remove them. I need to find some online sources of the rubber suspension grommets for future use.

It now reads discs OK, but is intermittenly slow changing tracks - up to 18 seconds... Any ideas? Laser is not going mad during the process, but I do hear what I think is increased focus noise as laser tries to find focus.

Anyhow, it works Actually sounds pretty good too on initial impressions - it uses a DAC I'm not familiar with, AKM4324 - DAC/Audio board is tiny, but has 2 dedicated AC lines and multiple surface mount rectifiers on it. But as per Micromega, seems a good implementation.

It's going into my office system and the Adcom (Sony electronics/laser with TDA1541A and class A (I think) output stage) *has* to go on eBay - I am now officially a hoarder

Has anyone heard a Primare D20? Mine is the original Philips based unit, a MKII quickly followed with Sony laser & same DAC - and main servo/decoder board design is very reminiscent of my Micromega Stage 5, same transformers, same principal of separate AC windings to DAC audio board (but Stage 5 is dual TDA1305 DACs).

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