The CEC TL5 offers a timely reminder of the benefits of dedicated CD transports when it comes to optical disc replay, but most important of all, it does a remarkably fine, musically un-intrusive job of rekindling all those musical performances stored on CD. If that all-singing, all-dancing, multi-input DAC you just bought still isn’t delivering, you know exactly what to do... 

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS

Type: Top-loading, belt-drive CD transport

Outputs: S/PDIF (coaxial RCA), AES/EBU (XLR), Optical (TOSlink)

Finish: Silver or Black

Dimensions (W×H×D): 435 ×109 ×335mm

Weight: 8.3kg

Price: £2,600