Primare DD35 – CD transport

Description

The Primare DD35 is a high-performance CD transport designed to deliver exceptional digital audio playback for audiophiles who want to experience the highest fidelity from their CD collections. As a dedicated transport, the DD35 focuses solely on reading the digital information from CDs with utmost precision and sending it to an external digital-to-analog converter (DAC), ensuring an uncompromised listening experience.

Key Features:

1. Dedicated CD Transport:
   • Pure Digital Output:
     • The DD35 is designed purely as a CD transport, meaning it reads the digital data from CDs and outputs it in a pure digital format to an external DAC. This approach minimizes the potential for interference and ensures that your external DAC receives a clean, accurate signal for optimal conversion and playback.
   • Ideal for High-End Systems:
     • By pairing the DD35 with a high-quality DAC, you can achieve superior sound quality, making it an ideal choice for audiophiles who seek the best possible performance from their CD collection.
2. High-Precision CD Drive Mechanism:
   • Accurate Digital Reading:
     • The DD35 is equipped with a high-quality, precision-engineered CD drive mechanism that ensures accurate reading of the digital information stored on your CDs. This results in more accurate data transfer and significantly improved sound quality.
   • Stable and Reliable Performance:
     • The CD drive is designed for long-term reliability, providing consistent and stable playback, even with older or slightly scratched discs.
3. Multiple Digital Output Options:
   • Versatile Connectivity:
     • The DD35 offers a variety of digital output options, including optical (Toslink), coaxial (RCA), and AES/EBU (XLR) connections. This versatility allows you to connect the transport to a wide range of external DACs or digital audio processors, ensuring compatibility with various high-end audio systems.
   • High-Quality Transmission:
     • Each digital output is designed to transmit the digital signal with minimal jitter and interference, ensuring that your external DAC receives the cleanest possible signal.
4. Elegant Scandinavian Design:
   • Minimalist Aesthetics:
     • The DD35 embodies Primare’s signature Scandinavian design, featuring a sleek aluminum chassis with a minimalist front panel and display. This understated design blends seamlessly with any high-end audio setup and ensures that the DD35 remains a stylish addition to your system.
   • Robust Build Quality:
     • The aluminum chassis not only enhances the visual appeal but also provides excellent shielding against electromagnetic interference, ensuring that the digital signal remains pure and unaffected.
5. Seamless Integration with Primare Systems:
   • Perfect Match for Primare I35 or Other DACs:
     • The DD35 is designed to integrate seamlessly with Primare’s I35 integrated amplifier or other high-quality DACs, allowing you to build a complete high-performance audio system. When paired with Primare components, it offers a cohesive and synergistic audio experience.
6. Eco-Friendly Operation:
   • Low Power Consumption:
     • The DD35 is designed to be energy-efficient, with low power consumption during operation and a standby mode that consumes less than 0.5W, making it an environmentally conscious choice.

Applications:

• High-Fidelity CD Playback: The DD35 is perfect for audiophiles who want to enjoy their CD collections with the highest possible fidelity, offering a pure digital signal to external DACs for superior sound quality.
• Integration with High-End Audio Systems: The versatile digital output options make the DD35 easy to integrate into existing high-end audio setups, allowing it to serve as the central CD playback component.
• Upgrade Existing Systems: Ideal for those looking to upgrade their current CD player to a dedicated transport to achieve better sound quality with an external DAC.

Benefits:

• Uncompromised Sound Quality: By focusing solely on digital output, the DD35 ensures that the signal sent to your DAC is as accurate and clean as possible, resulting in superior audio performance.
• Flexibility and Compatibility: With multiple digital outputs, the DD35 can connect to a wide range of DACs and digital audio processors, making it compatible with virtually any high-quality audio system.
• Elegant and Durable Design: The minimalist Scandinavian design not only looks stunning but also provides excellent durability and shielding against interference.

The Primare DD35 is an exceptional CD transport designed for audiophiles who demand the highest level of digital audio performance. By providing a pure and accurate digital signal to an external DAC, the DD35 ensures that every detail of your CDs is faithfully reproduced. Its versatile digital output options, high-quality CD drive mechanism, and elegant design make it an ideal addition to any high-end audio system. Whether you’re building a new audio setup or looking to upgrade your existing system, the Primare DD35 offers a premium solution for enjoying your CD collection with unmatched clarity and fidelity.

Primare CD35 – Technology

DD35 provides superior digital transport capabilites to virtually any system as a result of its low resonance drive and ultra low noise digital output, and making it the perfect partner for any of the models in the modular line of products: PRE35 preamplifier, I35, and I25 intergrated amplifiers.

 

The look and feel of Scandinavia

We believe that every aspect of our products – the way they look, the satisfying feel of the controls – contributes to the overall experience of living with Primare. As a result, Primare products exude the hallmarks of Scandinavian design – simple, elegant designs, with approachable and easy to understand functionality.

An example of this are the control buttons, carefully crafted to provide the best tactile sense when used – not too large or too small, too soft or too stiff, nor to close to or far from the surface of the faceplate – or as we say lagom, not too much not too little, everything in balance, proportion, and harmony.

Modular Design and System Building

We feel it is essential to offer modularity whenever possible in order to have just the right features, both now and for the future. Modular design is featured in the I25 and I35 modular integrated amplifiers, as well as the PRE35 modular preamplifier, all of which can be updated with DAC and Prisma modules, as well as the CD35 CD player that can have the Prisma module added, either at the time of purchase or at a later date.

As a result, we are able to offer a carefully considered array of models and configurations in order to allow for device selection that best fits any system need. For example, a CD35 with Prisma module installed can be paired with an I35 integrated amplifier, allowing for a separation of analog and digital stages. Or, an I35 with DAC and Prisma modules installed can be paired with a DD35 CD transport, allowing for multi-room and multi-zone playback of every input, whether analog or digital source.

Specifications

• CD Transport TEAC CD 5020A-AT
• RCA 1 digital output
• Toslink 1 digital output
• C25 remote IR system control
• IR input 3.5 mm in/out

• 12V Trigger 3.5 mm in/out
• RS232 outboard system control port
• Dimensions 430 x 385 x 106 mm with buttons and connectors
• Weight 10.8 kg
• Finishes black or titanium

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