CARAT C57

The Carat C57 player is designed to form a unity with Carat's A57 amplifier and T57 tuner. The selected internal components show serious interest of the producer in sound: one Burr-Brown 24bit/96Hz PCM1732 D/A converter, two OPA2134 op-amplifiers. The power is transformed by a single 35VA toroid that is common for both analogue and digital sections. There is another small transformer that powers up the control circuits and the display unit. The C57 provides an unusual touch - the HDCD decoder that is activated automatically when appropriate material is played back (like Reference Recordings stuff, for example). The analog outputs are only single-ended (RCA), the digital are only coaxial. The main switch is on the player's rear panel so if you plan to build it in consider it.