While we enjoy the benefits of streaming as much as anyone, there is a certain hands-on appeal to CD players that we can’t ignore. More than that, we like to own our music and be able to play it any time we want. Given the relatively fickle nature of streaming rights and the slightly erratic stability of an internet connection, we still see a place for a high-quality CD player in our systems.
This far into the age of streaming, new CD player launches have slowed to a mere trickle, so we can’t wait to have a go on TEAC’s new premium player.
Those initials – VRDS – will mean a lot to hi-fi fans of a certain vintage. They stand for Vibration-free Rigid Disc-clamping System and indicate the use of TEAC’s proprietary CD transport design. There have been numerous versions of this mechanism found in productslaser to read the disc more easily and the result should be a better sound. We have heard enough TEAC VRDS-equipped CD players and transports over the years to find that is usually the case.
