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Esoteric Grandioso P1X Super Audio CD Transport
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Grandioso P1X
VRDS Technology
VRDS (Vibration-Free Rigid Disc-Clamping System) is Esoteric’s unique CD/Super Audio CD transport technology, which has been specially designed to clamp the disc to a same-diameter turntable in order to eliminate the disc’s rotational vibration, as well as any extraneous vibration emanating from the mechanism itself. It also corrects any warpage of the disc dramatically improving the accuracy of both the optical pickup and the disc pit layer’s corresponding optical axis while also minimizing servo current. This all adds up to dramatically reduced disc read error for exceptional audio quality.
The Highest Rigidity and Heaviest Construction in the History of VRDS
ATLAS boasts the highest rigidity and weight in the history of VRDS mechanisms. With its larger new SS400 steel side panels and bridge, the ATLAS is 27% heavier (6.6kg mechanism unit, 13.5kg including base) than the NEO, achieving both exceptional rigidity and impressive tone. It also dampens any and all vibration that might adversely affect audio quality. The turntable is machined from solid duralumin for excellent audio quality, and its spindle features a newly designed thrust bearing system. This friction-free one-point spindle support system ensures smooth, noiseless turntable rotation.
Wide & Low Center-of-Gravity Design
One of the keys to achieving the quietest mechanism in VRDS history is mechanical grounding technology that efficiently dampens vibration. By adopting a wide and low profile for the mechanism’s design, the entire construction now features a low center of gravity. The turntable’s drive system has also been refined and its motor moved to below the turntable from its previous position above the bridge, thus shortening the route for grounding vibration and greatly reducing mechanical noise.
Elegant Tray Mechanism Operation
The tray’s form has been designed for the least possible resonance by minimizing hollowing, and boasts exceptionally smooth opening and closing operation with very little play. The use of special vibration-damping elastomer resin also further minimizes tray resonance during music playback.
ES-LINK5 Digital Transmission
Esoteric’s own ES-LINK digital interface utilizes HDMI cables for signal transmission. With the introduction of the P1X/D1X, ES-LINK has been further upgraded to Ver. 5 and supports an even wider range of superior sound quality formats (Max. 22.5MHz DSD and 768kHz/48-bit PCM). HDMI’s multi-conductor structure permits full balance transmission of audio data and LR clock and bit clock signals.
This differs from regular digital transmission as signal modulation is not required on the sender side and demodulation processing is not required on the receiver side, thus dramatically reducing digital processing loads on the DAC side and enabling ideal digital transmission.
Specifications
| Playable disc types | Super Audio CD, CD (including CD-R and CD-RW) |
| Digital audio outputs | |
| ES-LINK | 1 |
| XLR | 2 pairs(During Dual AES output, one connector each for left and right channels of a stereo pair) |
| RCA | 1 pair |
| Clock input | |
| BNC | 2 |
| Input imepedance | 50Ω |
| Input level | ±sine wave 0.5 to 1.0Vrms |
| Input frequency | 10MHz (±10ppm) |
| General | |
| Power supply | |
| AC 220 – 240V, 50/60Hz | |
| AC 120V, 60Hz | |
| AC 220V, 60Hz | |
| Power consumption | 20W |
| External dimensions (W×H×D) | |
| Main unit | 445 × 162 × 449mm 17-⅝” × 6-½” × 17-¾” (including protrusions) |
| Power supply unit | 445 × 132 × 452mm 17-⅝” × 5-¼” × 17-⅞” (including protrusions) |
| Weight | |
| Main unit | 29kg / 64 lb |
| Power supply unit | 24kg / 53 lb |
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