As the perfect companion, the DCD-2500NE focuses on achieving the essence of a disc player: ultra-high precision in reading discs and supplying high-quality audio signals to the amp. To achieve this, the Denon engineers incorporated unique technologies and developments to strengthen rigidity and to reduce vibration, the great enemy of disc players. For example, they chose reference-class Advanced S.V.H. (Suppress Vibration Hybrid) disc drive mechanism with a newly developed pickup circuit. Signal paths have been shortened to an absolute minimum and circuits have been miniaturized to ensure that excess current or noise will not occur. The various parts of the mechanism have been made with different materials, carefully selected to improve disc read and data processing. The complex built-quality includes a Direct Mechanical Ground Construction, with the power transformers – themselves a source of vibration – placed close to the feet of the DCD-2500NE where unwanted vibration is funneled directly to the ground and prevented from affecting nearby circuitry. Also, by placing the drive mechanism – the part with the greatest mass – low in the centre of the chassis, the low centre of gravity effectively absorbs internal vibration caused by disc rotation and also protects the mechanism from external vibration. As a result, the information on the disc is now read with impeccable accuracy and a clean, high-grade signal is supplied to the DCD-2500NE’s Advanced AL32 Processing Plus circuitry. In addition to CD and Super Audio CD, the DCD can play DSD (2.8 MHz / 5.6 MHz) files and high-resolution files up to 192 kHz / 24 bits recorded on DVD-R/RW and DVD+R/RW discs. Music files with sampling frequencies of up to 48 kHz recorded on CD-R/RW discs can also be played.

Advanced AL32 Processing + Ultra Precision 192kHz/32bit D/A Converter