A classic ATC Soft Dome Monitoring - Friends around the world (special limited edition print) poster 66/100 signed by ATC's founder and chief engineer Billy Woodman on display here at Musicraft (Derby).





Stereophile reviews ATC's CDA2 MK2 CD Player/DSD DAC/Preamplifier -

https://www.stereophile.com/content/...r-preamplifier

"The CDA2 Mk2's first-rate construction—each CDA2 Mk2 is wholly assembled by a single ATC employee—includes the hand-soldering of "surface mount components on the legs of specific chips." This care is reflected in the player's bomb-proof appearance."

"If you've read my previous reviews, you know I'm all about vinyl. But the CDA2 Mk2 demanded that I dive deep into my collection of CDs, many of which were pressed during my 30 years as a jazz, pop, and electronic music critic."

"Words that habitually popped up in my listening notes for the CDA2 Mk2: rich, dense, transparent, truthful, powerful, subtle, revealing."

"The CDA2 Mk2 was unfailingly transparent to the source, warts and all."

"You could easily spend $2000 apiece on a CD player and preamplifier and not get the construction quality, ease of use, and fantastic sound of ATC's CDA2 Mk2 CD preamplifier."

"With ATC's CDA2 Mk2 offering pleasing tonality, resolution, and dynamics, a versatile feature set, and rock-solid build, all for a decent price, it's impossible not to crown it with the highest recommendation. It can provide a fine starting point for a solid high-end system."


ATC CDA2 MK2 CD/DSD DAC/Preamplifier

Wholesale upgrades to ATC’s leading source product deliver audiophile levels of accuracy and dynamics to music reproduction, combined with extraordinary value for money…

ATC is extremely proud to announce the arrival of the CDA 2 MK2 CD/DSD DAC/Preamp, which represents a re-engineering of its predecessor in all the key performance areas. Developed as the ideal partner for ATC’s latest P2 power amplifier and active speaker designs, the CDA MK2 combines convenient USB access to high-resolution music streaming with an upgraded CD transport and DAC board, dedicated headphone amplification, expanded input choices and analogue circuits redesigned to deliver an extremely wide and flat frequency response with very low distortion.

ATC CDA2 MK2 CD/DSD DAC/Preamplifier UK RRP £2949



ATC, Acoustic Transducer Company, is a specialist British manufacturer of loudspeaker drive units and complete sound reproduction systems, including the relevant electronic equipment. ATC designs and manufactures the finest and most accurate of monitors in the world. ATC achieves this by designing and manufacturing loudspeaker drive units and systems to achieve levels of performance far in excess of the industry norm. ATC has kept to its aims of building loudspeakers and electronics which employ the most effective of modern engineering principles. ATC don't respond to competition, instead ATC responds to advances in technology that enables ATC to improve their products. ATC's goal is to have loudspeakers as near perfection in performance as possible by having the lowest possible distortion.

All ATC products are built to meet the challenge of the latest digital recording technologies, while providing nothing less than the best sound reproduction money can buy.

By selecting ATC you join a group of music lovers, professional audio engineers, educators, studios, and musicians across the world that understand the value of the engineering that goes into every ATC product.

ATC’s products are installed at some of the world’s most prestigious multi-channel studios and auditoria. Where ever the best is required you will find ATC.

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ATC CDA2 MK2 CD/DSD DAC/Preamplifier

Joining rear panel coaxial and optical 192kHz inputs, the CD MK2’s new high resolution USB input is capable of handling PCM data up to 384kHz and also DSD64, DSD128 and DSD256 natively. Excellent jitter rejection ensures that signal integrity is maintained even with poorer quality sources and over long cable runs. Completing the CDA MK2’s wider digital interface, a new TEAC-supplied CD transport delivers faster play and seek times, much lower mechanical noise and improved error correction.

The meticulously re-engineered analogue circuits optimise ATC’s implementation of a new premium 32-bit AKM DAC, selected for exceptionally low noise and distortion. Supporting the DAC, the CDA MK2’s power supply architecture employs no fewer than nine additional high performance voltage regulators, and local power supply decoupling has been improved from the MK1, yielding further performance gains.

In another refinement, both input and output gain stages have been improved by an arrangement of discrete op amps comprising six common gain blocks: two for left and right input buffering, and four to provide a “true” differential output for the left and right channels. The positive and negative drivers are arranged in parallel to ensure that the signal delays and phase shifts are identical on both sides. The output stages are configured as unity gain complementary compound (Sziklai) pairs, biased in class A.

These major design revisions combined with many marginal gains (from hand-soldering surface mount components on the legs of specific chips for instance) ensure that the CDA2 MK2’s analogue stage exhibits exceptionally low noise and distortion across a very wide bandwidth.

Also benefitting are twin rear-mounted analogue phono/RCA inputs and an additional aux analogue input via 3.5mm mini jack, which is equipped with high input sensitivity for improved compatibility with phones, tablets and other low output portable devices. Additionally the CDA MK2 benefits from a revised high performance headphone amplifier capable of driving headphones from 30 – 600 ohms, delivering exceptional results from the vast array of modern headphone designs. Output is via a rear panel mounted 6.35mm jack.

The CDA2 MK2’s chassis is constructed from a combination of steel and aluminium and uses constrained layer damping to control panel resonances. The front panel is machined from an extruded section of 13mm/0.5” aluminium alloy with a brushed and anodised silver finish.


ATC CDA2 MK2 CD/DSD DAC/Preamplifier


ATC SCM100ASL Professional Monitors used here at Musicraft (Derby)


ATC SCM100ASL Professional Monitors used here at Musicraft (Derby)


ATC SCM100ASL Professional monitors


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