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Pink Triangle Dacapo II Cd Player. Condition is Used. Dispatched with Other 48h Courier. There are some scratches on the top plate as shown in the photo.
Please note this is not to be confused with the original wooden boxed Pink Triangle Dacapo DAC – this an integrated CD player. I previously owned the 3 box PT Dacapo DAC with matching transport and tried all of the various filter options and this unit is far superior to what is regardly regarded as a legend in the hifi industry. It also doesn’t suffer the capacitor issues that plagued the previous PT designs as it uses different components.
It completely outclasses the portable Chord Hugo I use which is widely believed to be among the best of the current digital crop. It sounds much more natural, smooth and detailed in the midband due to its use of the current feedback topology that was a hallmark of PT circuitry. It sounds a lot less “hifi” all around and more like the best analogue sources.
Only 3 were ever made and 2 of those are owned by insiders at Pink Triangle including Arthur, the founder himself, so this is likely to be the only unit that will ever come up for sale to the public.
As a slight quirk when ejecting or retracting the cd drawer the eject / retract button must be pressed until ejection or retraction is complete. This was noted in the reviews and is slightly irritating but it is worth putting up with for the glorious sound quality.
The unit has inbuilt volume control so can be connected to a power amp or active crossover direct using either balanced or single ended connectors. I had a phono stage with balanced output that also had inbuilt volume control so I ran both into a balanced switch to be able to switch between both without using a preamp. The improvement in sound quality when bypassing a preamp is nothing short of staggering though the volume output defaults to full when you switch it on so be careful! My balanced switch had an null position which I used when switching on and off to avoid transients or accidentally using full volume.
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