CDSA-SE CD/SACD Player

Hi-Fi Plus
Anthony Cordesman "(it) Makes Sense of Digital Sound"
March 2008 Click to read
"...the only high cost player I have yet heard that clearly justifies its price tag. ...The sincerest form of flattery or praise a reviewer can give a product is to actually buy the review unit. This is particularly true given the £9495 a pop cost of the Meitner CDSA-SE. I did buy the review unit, and I’m glad I did so."

CDSA-SE CD/SACD Player Updated

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Ryan Coleman "Upgraded CDSA Follow-up"
May 5, 2008 Click to read
"EMM Labs has taken a statement product, a standard in the industry, and made it better. Correction: lots better. The cutting edge just got sharper, folks. Anyone who has lain down 10-large can feel comfortable that the $1500 for the upgrade will be money well spent."

The Stereo Times
Nelson Brill "Nelson's New Reference!"
March 11, 2008
"The essence of the CDSA’s sonic virtues, ones that set it apart from every other digital player I have heard to date, was its uncolored liquid presentation of the Sound offered on any CD or stereo SACD recording, mining the colors, textures and inner drama of any given recorded performance for all its worth. A word on the CDSA’s performance on stereo SACD, versus CD. I can report that this is yet another area where Meitner and his team have surpassed expectations, dramatically closing the sonic gap between the two formats. The CDSA takes its place on the podium as my new digital player reference."

The Absolute Sound, Issue 125, August 2007
Anthony Cordesman, Golden Ear Award
"...A Superb CD and SACD player, ...it offers subtle musically natural detail, the best imaging and soundstage I've heard other than from digital masters, and excellent overall timbre without digital hardness in the upper octaves or artificial softening of the sound."

Harry Pearson, Golden Ear Award
"Quite simply, the best two-channel CD (and two-channel SACD) playback device of the many, many we've tested in Sea Cliff over the past year. ...you can listen with pleasure, and for hours and hours."

Fedeltà del Suono 137 (Italy)
Andrea Della Sala
L'HI-END DEL MESE April 2007 Click to read

Superior Audio, EnjoyTheMusic.com
Phil Gold
April 2007 Click to read
"The CDSA SE has to be in very front rank of CD Players regardless of cost. It will do wonders for detail retrieval, imaging and accuracy complete with a fully realized bottom end and open top on the best Redbook recordings. Its failings are those of the medium itself. As to SACD, this is as good as digital gets, and far better than any Redbook CD you will ever hear."

CDSA-SE CD/SACD Player

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Dr. Sardonicus (Rick Gardner)
Issue 30, March 2007 Click to read
"At USD $9.95K full retail, it doesn't take a genius to figure out this should soon be the hot ticket. And it doesn't matter if you don't have even one SACD. At this point in time, on planet Earth, digital music reproduction just doesn't get any better than the CDSA SE."

ADC8 MKIV 8-channel A/D and D/D Converter
DAC8 MKIV 8-channel D/A and D/D Converter

Pro Audio Review
Tom Jung
December 2001
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Pro Audio Review
Tom Jung
August 1999
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CDSD Disc Transport

The Absolute Sound
Harry Pearson
February/March 2005, Issue 152
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DCC2 2-channel D/A Converter and CDSD

AUDIOreview (Italy)
January 2007, Issue 275
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Suono (Italy)
Carlo D'Ottavi e Fernando Marco Manunta
July/August 2006, Issue 128
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Fedeltà del Suono (Italy)
Andio Morotti
December 2005, Issue 123
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DAC6e 6-channel D/A Converter

The Absolute Sound
Jonathan Valin
December 2003/January 2004,
Issue 145
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The Absolute Sound
Harry Pearson
June/July 2003, Issue 142
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Positive Feedback
David Robinson
June/July 2003, Issue 7
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The Absolute Sound
Harry Pearson
April/May 2003, Issue 141
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High Fidelity Review
Brian Moura
March 2003
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Positive Feedback
David Robinson
December/January 2003, Issue 4
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Switchman-2 Switching Control Center and Preamplifier

Secrets of Home Theater and High Fidelity
John Kotches
October 2001
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