Primare CD35 Prisma – CD and network player

Original price was: 3 500,00 €.Current price is: 2 975,00 €.

Primare CD35 Prisma is an award winning complete digital music media player, providing superior CD disc, stored and streamed digital media music playback, with wired and wireless connectivity and control capabilities provided by the Prisma network streamer technology.

Description

The Primare CD35 Prisma is a high-performance CD and network player that combines exceptional CD playback with advanced digital streaming capabilities, making it a versatile and powerful source component for any audio system. This elegantly designed player integrates Primare’s renowned Prisma technology, allowing you to access a wide range of music from both physical discs and digital sources with ease. With its high-resolution digital-to-analog conversion, multiple connectivity options, and intuitive control features, the CD35 Prisma is designed to deliver a superior listening experience for audiophiles and music enthusiasts alike.

Key Features:

  1. High-Precision CD Playback:
    • Premium CD Drive Mechanism:
      • The CD35 Prisma features a high-quality CD drive mechanism that ensures precise reading of digital data from CDs. This accurate data retrieval allows for detailed and dynamic playback, ensuring that every nuance of your music is faithfully reproduced.
    • Smooth and Reliable Operation:
      • Engineered for stability and reliability, the CD drive offers consistent performance, even with older or slightly scratched discs, ensuring uninterrupted enjoyment of your CD collection.
  2. Advanced Prisma Network Player Technology:
    • Integrated Prisma Technology:
      • The CD35 Prisma includes Primare’s award-winning Prisma technology, providing comprehensive multi-room/multi-zone connectivity and control over stored and streamed media from any mobile device. This advanced platform supports Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, AirPlay 2, Chromecast built-in, Spotify Connect, and Roon Ready, giving you access to an extensive range of streaming services and platforms.
    • High-Resolution Streaming:
      • With support for high-resolution audio files up to 192kHz/24-bit PCM and DSD128, the CD35 Prisma ensures that your streamed digital music sounds as good as your CDs, delivering a consistently high-quality audio experience.
  3. High-Quality Digital-to-Analog Conversion (DAC):
    • ESS Sabre ES9028PRO DAC Chipset:
      • The CD35 Prisma is equipped with the highly regarded ESS Sabre ES9028PRO DAC, capable of handling high-resolution audio files with exceptional clarity, detail, and dynamic range. This advanced DAC technology ensures that both your CD collection and digital music files are reproduced with the highest level of fidelity.
    • Superior Analog Sound Quality:
      • The precise digital-to-analog conversion provided by the ESS Sabre DAC ensures a smooth, natural, and lifelike sound, making the CD35 Prisma a top choice for audiophiles seeking accurate and engaging music playback.
  4. Versatile Connectivity:
    • Analog and Digital Outputs:
      • The CD35 Prisma offers balanced XLR and unbalanced RCA analog outputs, allowing you to connect it to a variety of amplifiers, preamplifiers, or powered speakers. It also features coaxial and optical digital outputs for integration with external DACs or other digital audio components.
    • Multiple Digital Inputs:
      • With optical, coaxial, and USB-B digital inputs, the CD35 Prisma can be used as a high-quality DAC for other digital sources, such as computers, media players, or network streamers, adding versatility to your audio setup.
  5. Elegant Scandinavian Design:
    • Minimalist Aesthetics:
      • The CD35 Prisma showcases Primare’s signature minimalist design, with a sleek aluminum chassis, intuitive front-panel controls, and a clear display. Its understated elegance ensures that it complements any audio system, adding a touch of sophistication to your setup.
    • Robust and Durable Construction:
      • The high-quality aluminum chassis not only enhances the player’s appearance but also provides excellent shielding against electromagnetic interference, ensuring that your audio signal remains clean and pure.
  6. User-Friendly Control and Operation:
    • Prisma App and Voice Control:
      • The Prisma app offers intuitive control over the CD35 Prisma, allowing you to manage music playback, access streaming services, and control connected devices from your smartphone or tablet. Additionally, the player supports voice control via Google Assistant and Apple Siri, enabling convenient hands-free operation.

Applications:

  • High-Fidelity CD Playback: The CD35 Prisma provides accurate and detailed playback of your CD collection, making it an ideal choice for audiophiles who want to enjoy their physical music library with exceptional sound quality.
  • Comprehensive Network Streaming: With its integrated Prisma technology, the CD35 Prisma serves as a complete network player, offering seamless access to streaming services and high-resolution audio files stored on your local network.
  • Digital Hub for Advanced Audio Systems: The combination of CD playback, high-resolution streaming, and versatile connectivity options makes the CD35 Prisma a central source component for any high-end audio system.

Benefits:

  • Exceptional Sound Quality: The high-quality CD drive, ESS Sabre DAC, and advanced Prisma streaming technology ensure that your music is reproduced with clarity, detail, and dynamic accuracy, whether it’s from a CD or a digital source.
  • Versatile and Future-Proof: With its extensive connectivity options, high-resolution streaming capabilities, and modular design, the CD35 Prisma can adapt to a wide range of audio setups, making it a future-proof investment for your system.
  • Elegant and Compact Design: The CD35 Prisma’s minimalist and space-saving design allows it to integrate easily into any audio setup, without compromising on performance or functionality.

The Primare CD35 Prisma is a versatile, high-performance CD and network player that brings together superior CD playback, advanced digital streaming capabilities, and high-resolution DAC performance in a single, elegantly designed unit. With its high-quality ESS Sabre DAC, integrated Prisma technology, and extensive connectivity options, the CD35 Prisma serves as a comprehensive digital source for any audio system, providing exceptional sound quality and flexibility. Whether you’re building a new high-end audio system or upgrading your existing setup, the CD35 Prisma offers the perfect blend of performance, versatility, and style, making it an ideal choice for discerning audiophiles and music enthusiasts.

Primare CD35 Prisma – Technology

Each component part of CD35 Prisma – the drive, the DAC, the output stage, Prisma network player technology – work together in balance and harmony, contributing to what is simply the best digital music player Primare has ever offered.

At the heart of CD35 Prisma is a state-of-the-art dedicated TEAC CD drive supplying a jitter-free digital signal to an all-new DAC stage utilising a superb-sounding eight channel ESS Sabre chipset to convert that signal to analog for delivery to a finely tuned output stage.

Primare CD35 Prisma Technology

Two output options are available. In fixed output mode it is a complete disc, stored and streamed digital media source for even the finest system, and in variable output mode it serves as both source and control center for a powered speaker based system.

Additionally, the modular design allows for the possibility of adding new modules and features as they become available.

Prisma – Network and Multiroom Technology

Prisma is a bundle of technologies that provide the broadest range of network music player features and functionality. Essentially created to be a streamer that would allow everyone, and everywhere, in the household to explore, discover, and share the deeply satisfying experience of high-performance music playback – Prisma provides multi-room/multi-zone connectivity and control of stored and streamed media, whether wired or wireless, all managed from mobile devices through the dedicated Prisma system control app.

Prisma – Network and Multiroom Technology

In addition to AirPlay 2, Bluetooth®, Roon Ready*, and Spotify Connect®, Prisma features Chromecast built-in, a unique streaming portal allowing effortless direct connection to hundreds of streaming applications and services, including voice control, for the best possible performance and user experience.

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.

 

Primare CD35 Prisma The look and feel of Scandinavia

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.

Primare CD35 Prisma Modular Design and System Building

Specifications

  • CD Transport TEAC CD 5020A-AT
  • DAC ESS Sabre ES9028PRO
  • XLR 1 x stereo pair analog output
  • RCA 1 x stereo pair analog output
  • 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
  • Prisma control and connectivity
  • USB 1 digital input
  • Ethernet x 2
  • WiFi
  • AirPlay
  • Bluetooth
  • Chromecast built-in
  • Spotify Connect
  • Dimensions 430 x 385 x 106 mm with buttons and connectors
  • Weight1 0.8 kg
  • Finishes black or titanium

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Finishes

Black, Titanium

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