Audiolab 8200CDQ OLED Player

John Westlake leads the design team responsible for developing the 8200CD and 8200CDQ. John's technical skills have delivered award-winning digital audio products spanning the last two decades and a variety of companies have benefitted from his expertise. John is convinced that the 8200CD and 8200CDQ are the finest CD players he has ever designed.

Features

32-bit/84.672MHz oversampled/upsampled, 512 element, multibit array DAC (four DACs per channel)

1920x oversampling with 44.1kHz source from CD/USB

Asychronous USB supporting 24-bit/96kHz with driverless remote control of PC/Mac media player (via HID support)

2x 24-bit/192kHz coaxial S/PDIF digital inputs

2x 96kHz optical digital inputs

3x 2Vrms analogue line-level inputs

Low jitter optical and coxial S/PDIF outputs

Selectable analogue or digital preamplifier mode

High-current, single-ended and balanced, discreet Class A output stage

High-performance, direct-coupled, discrete Class A headphone amplifier

Custom CD servo design with ultra-low-noise PSU for OPU

Full remote control and external remote I/O loop

34 regulated power supply rails

14 ultra-low-noise discrete regulators

User-selectable digital filter settings software upggradeable via USB port

Master clock jitter less than 3psec short term

Top-quality component parts used throughout, including: ultra-low-ESR capacitors; high-tolerance polypropylene film/foil capacitors; ultra-stable, very-low-VCR 0.1% MELF SMD resisitors; four-layer PCB

Specification

Output Level @ 1kHz: RCA: 2.05V RMS XLR: 4.1V RMS

Frequency Response ref. 1kHz: 20Hz - 20kHz 0.2dB

Total Harmonic Distortion: RCA: <0.0025% XLR: <0.008%

Crosstalk @1KHz: RCA: >120dB XLR: >130dB

Dynamic Range 'A' wtd: RCA: >98dB XLR: >110dB