Plinius CD-101 Reference CD Player - SWEET!

"Kudos to Plinius of New Zealand and the creativity of Ross Stevens, the firm's design director, for touching pen to paper and rethinking the standard box of electronics. From any angle the curvaceous, flowing design of the Plinius CD-101 CD player brings to mind words like fresh, simple, and inspiring. With only a single push button adorning the brushed aluminum front panel, the CD-101 becomes the ne plus ultra of minimalist-chic. But Plinius is smartly conveying another message—it's not about buttons, numerical displays and data—it's about the music, mate. And oh my, it most certainly is." - by Neil Gader - The Absolute Sound 
 
The blue-toned back panel houses both RCA and balanced outputs, a digital output, a ground-lift toggle, on/off rocker and IEC socket and an IR sender for external third-party remote controllers. The CD-101 uses a CDROM drive-based transport which is thoroughly isolated. The tray is well supported with a robust bearing system, and the entire chassis is highly damped both acoustically and mechanically. There are separate power supplies for analog, digital, and digital-control stages with an oversized power supply and 300VA transformer to support the entire player. The CD- 101 uses an 8x oversampling filter (in effect an 8x synchronous upsampler) creating a 352.8kbps data stream. Burr-Brown 1704 multi-bit DACs are used without any high frequency output filtering, which, Plinius claims, would otherwise reduce sonic quality. And they add that any noise is at such a low level and high frequency (above 300kHz) that amplifier stability is not an issue. The hefty remote control is hollowed out of a single block of aluminum like a high tech didgeridoo.

Excellent condition, both operationally and cosmetically! Original remote, manual, power cord and original double box!