Good bass and excellent intrument sound reproduction.

Very long to scan disk and a frying noise always present

This is a demo model that the audio shop has lend me. I was expecting a lot more from this CD player. I have found that the frying noise when silence in the music was very annoying. I have a Rotel line conditionner therefore with or without it did not change anything. I suspect a poor power supply or poor noise filtering. One time out of two I had to re-open the door because the disk would not start, it would spin forever.

This player has very good bass and produces a very tight bass/mid and very pleasing to the ear. The highs are excellent...the best yet comparing to the Rotel 971 I tried.
My next player to try will be the Myryad and possibly the Meridian. If the Rotel 991 had been available, I would have prefered it.

My old CD is a Pioneer PD-7100 dated 1986 and I was really expecting a BIG difference with the Rocksan.

My system:
Passion Amp 30 WPC - tubes
Reference 3A speakers
Rotel RLC-900 Line Conditionner
Pioneer PD-7100 CD player
Kimber Cable 4TC

Comments welcome on suggestion on other possibilities.

Thanks

Similar Products Used:

Rotel 991, Meridian, Myryad, Arcam