Yeah, as soon as all these new vinyl fans realize after about 5-10 plays their over-price piece of vinyl sounds like it was used as a flying disc at the beach, the vinyl craze will be over.
I have more CD's than vinyl, my first vinyl self purchase was Electric Warrior T Rex in 71 I think it was released, I was 8 and never stopped buying, I'll be pleased when to vinyl "rush" is over and prices become more sensible if ever they do, I'm a month or two away from a new turntable/arm purchase :)
Look at the life spans though, CD’s have a life span of 20 years, Vinyl 100 years. I have vinyl that sounds as good now, as it did when I bought it 50 years ago. But I have some CD’s that have oxidized because of manufacturing problems, that won’t play anymore.
@Chris Shelley I hear you, there are advantages to each format for sure. I do enjoy the sound better on vinyl, but then with a CD you never have the pops and clicks. Sad thing is I have around 200 CD’s and no player anymore, which is why I would like to find a reasonable player to stream into a DAC. Most of the music I listen to these days, are either vinyl or lossless streaming.
Thank you for this review! I went ahead and bought one on your recommendation (Amazon had marked it for 18 quid in the states for some reason) and it has been such a joy to use an easy, elegant CD player to listen to music. I've found myself going into the thrift shop poking around for CDs that look intriguing and have such a large sonic world opened up to me. Thanks again!
I love CD's and vinyl. They sound much better than streaming and I can get them free from my towns transfer station swap area. I also get free vinyl from the swap area. Plus, I don't want another monthly payment for streaming and not all CD's and vinyl are on the streaming services.
Totally with you on that. I've never really understood paying for an album and not physically owning it, I mean that was literally the appeal of building a music collection, or still is in my mind. I stream some stuff, but usually only if I haven't heard it before, then if I like it I go buy the physical copy. You have to wonder if streaming is actually more detrimental to the artists earnings as well, they may get an OK deal now, but once the formats have all been killed off I'd expect these streaming services to really tighten up and squeeze these people.
I recently went to a record fair here in australia, and I saw a table of used classical music CDs. Every single one was two dollars. Even four disc sets. Even CDs still sealed in the original shrinkwrap! And these were good quality releases. You really can't complain about that price, can you. To hell with streaming.
Bought one of these CD players and it arrived today. Very very impressed with the sound quality for the £64 I paid on first listen. It won’t be part of either of my systems, and will instead be used in my home office paired to some Grado head cans. Had I not read your review I’d likely not pulled the trigger on this, so cheers for the review and pointers. I’m well pleased 😃
I imagine this is aimed at a young market. If that's what it takes to get young people into physical media then it's great news. I still have a Sony D-EG7 Discman that I bought around 1998 and although the sound wasn't very good compared to newer cd players, it still works very well. It's fun to see the cd is still alive.
Very nicely timed video; a big vinyl fan here but guess what? I still and will continue to buy CDs on a regular basis as I always have done because they have their place in my music life which vinyl often just does not fill. I feel at the moment that there is an awful lot of music out there only being released on CD, especially CD Box Sets where I could mention the gorgeous new Jane Birkin box or perhaps Robert Palmer The Island Years. And then there are companies like Cherry Red and others who are releasing super clam shell boxes with 3-4 CDs worth of great music plus inner sleeves and a booklet and only in this format. I just purchased all of the Joe Gibbs Dub albums in one box. Currently, to listen to a CD I have to switch on three hi-fi components so I believe I can see a place for the Trettitre on my desktop connected via BT to my standalone speaker. I just ordered a triple LP set for 87,00€ so this new piece of kit won't break the bank. Greetings from Berlin.
I’ve been collecting physical music now for about 4 years now. Started with vinyl. Then CDs and now even cassette tapes. My record players is a Sony one. My cd player is a cheap one I got off Amazon. My cassette player is a refurbished Walkman ex-631 I found off eBay. Physical media till the day I die
This looks interesting. I only regret that there is no optical out on this device, to give the choice of using it as a transport linked to an external dac.
Yes, that's the exact issue that negates it from being used in any of my systems. I've found that the (what used to be) top of the line CD players from early 2000's with an optical out have become my solution for a budget transport. Have compared some of my thrift solutions to my friends fancy thousand $ transports and ended up irritating my friends (in good fun) once they heard the quality of my solutions that cost $15-$20.
well designed! CD isn't dead .As more companies manage to make Cd sound refine so much better in 3d soundstage ,& balance sound than streaming .With a good Dac ,CD transport,& tube set amp just bring in the magic which streaming cannot compete.
Thank you so much for covering this. Being my specific age (43) I went through thr time period of losing, giving away, and even throwing away CDs when MP3 and especially Lossless formats came out. Fortunately while crate digging for vinyl records I started noticing many CD crates started popping up in thrift stores for between .99 and $2.99 a piece. I started grabbing them up again and now have a collection that my 18 year old self would have lost his mind over. All for ridiculously low capital invested. I've been looking for things to use as a transport considering I use a very good DAC (Bifrost) and anything called a transport costs ridiculous amounts of money. I've settled on the better players from the early 2000's that have an optical or coax out. I've compared actual transports owned by friends to my thrift store counterparts and honestly we've had a hell of a time hearing enough of a difference to justify the expensive transports. I've found my solution but am always curious and on the lookout for other solutions. I don't think this is a solution for me but thank you so much for putting out CD content.
Same here. Streaming is good but what happens when the system goes down? I am now buying used CDs that once retailed between $12-$25 US dollars for $1.00-$6.00. Same with vintage equipment. Carver receivers for under $300 and NAD CD player for $30 and classic RSL speakers for $100. These brands are still working after 25 plus years because I am lucky and they were manufactured right.
Thanks for the excellent review! One feature I like is, unlike most portable CD players, you can turn off the Anti-Skip buffer, which can sometimes affect the audio quality. Did you test the audio quality with the anti-skip buffer on or off? And could you tell a difference?
Three years ago looking for an affordable portable player with decent sound to take with me on used CD hunts at local resale shops, an HDJUNTUNKOR player for whatever reason came up in more than a couple of discussions so I purchased it on Amazon($40.00) to give it a try. I didn't want to buy a twenty, thirty year old Sony or other brand that I was familiar with that stopped making them. All the new models come from companies I never heard of and wonder if most come from the same or couple of factories in the far east. Anyhoo, this model was slim, has EQ settings and rechargeable batteries that really last and stay charged, but the best thing about it is that it sounds wonderful, surprisingly so. Plays in any position. It really makes a difference with what headphones you use with it. While my in the ear AKGs are fine, my Scosche phones are fantastic with it. I pulled the player out after reading your review and popped Gergiev's Scheherazade with the Kirov Orchestra, turned it on and it was holding a charge after not using it for half a year, and yep, wonderful sound of a wonderful performance.
I re-started collecting CDs several years ago, buying new ones. Streaming music services will erase our culture. Youth won't even be able to remember the artists and songs they enjoyed once they switch services or it goes defunct. They aren't going to have much to share with their kids, grandkids etc culturally speaking. Collect music, Vinyl, CD albums, Tapes, etc. Keep it will preserved and enjoy showing it off. I protect mine, jewel cases and digipaks into a cheap plastic envelope each, then those go into collector boxes. I show them off proudly and it inspires others to enjoy the love of collecting music
I still have a Sony portable walkman cd player. I've seen this cd player reviewed already. Might get it sometime. Still looking for a new portable cassette player have acouple Sony's I need to replace. Excellent review.
A portable CD player is something interesting about the small footprint. What I missed in quiet all this players is that it's no possible to use as transport because they haven't digital outputs.
Great review. Interesting player. Although vinyl is my main media I've bought more cd's lately just because the increase in price for vinyl. They're so cheap!
My old Sony all metal thin elegant cd player I bought 30 years ago .. has the most useful feature of all .. a digital optical out, which I could use with an optical to coaxial converter with my amplifier (Monitor audio A100) which has a good dac (digital to analogue converter) in it It’s only recently that I was able to get a CD player .. an Amazon branded device (costs £20 and has a very functional remote ) which runs off a standard phone charger or external battery pack for phone charging. (Which makes it movable .. possible to play it without a mains charger unit) Importantly it has a coaxial wired digital out (and hdmi) which I connect to the dac in my amp and sounds indistinguishable from the great mains £400 Arcam cd player I have .. which has great digital to analogue conversion . My new set up has a tiny foot 🦶 print in my living room. Very pleased with it and cost £20. The A100 dac amp can be had 2nd hand for 100 to £200
Bought the Copper/Black one. Actually the sound is way better than my small Sony/Technics personal CD player collection. Like you I'm a bit shocked at the quality of sound.
Thank you so much for this detailed review. I just bought the Aiwa PCD-810 which is available brand new on Amazon, but I was tempted by some of the lesser known brands that are a similar price. It seems that major brands have mostly given up on portable CD players in the same way that have with cassette players. I have a 1992 Technics XP6 which is looking and working like new, but when the Aiwa turns up I'll be interested to her how it compares to the XP6. If it's less than impressive I will probably try the Trettitre.
I suppose they could just use the laser assembly out of the portable USB DVD Drives for external use by laptop computers and likely most of the same electronics as well. Probably same as the ridiculously expensive "audiophiles" CD transports out there nowadays. Right off the shelf, no need to reinvent the wheel you know.
I see it's advertised as an in-car BT CD player, which makes the choice of shape, size and colour all the more odd. Not what you could slip inconspicuously into the centre console.
Thank you this review. I’m getting sick of Apple Music mucking up my soundtrack collection when rights change so I’ve grabbed this to use the CDs. There is a 15% off code on Amazon U.K. at the moment too.
If I want to use this at work (our PCs no longer have a disc player in them) to play my CDs through a small Class D amp and some old Polk Audio speakers, using a Ø3.5mm to stereo RCA cable, what volume should I set the T-CP8? 75% maybe or all the way to 100%? Thanks!
Great video there’s something about paying just 8 to 12 bucks for a brand new CD. I also like knowing I own it and it can’t be edited or deleted. I have Apple Music, Spotify and You Tube music. If I just dropped one of those services and bought one brand new CD a month I’d have a growing collection . 🤔
How are noise levels with CDs. They only say better than 70db and some comments say a noisy floor. If authentic tape hiss on on older prize recordings it's fine (John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman, e.g.) but if overall, please no. Do they publish which Bluetooth protocols are supported? I couldn't find it on their website. If LDAC, I might buy one. I have a pretty good Sony BluRay optical to Panasonic AVR for CDs but having a Bluetooth option with CDs in hand would be a nice addition. Many CDs I own are not (easily) findable on the usual streams. Some are never streamed. I think Apple is on to something with searchability of Classical streaming. No idea how well they do it.
Shenzhen Trittitre Audio company seems to make some really great audio equipment. At least design wise! Have you had a look at het TrePower 1 + 2 amplifiers. One tube amp and the other class AB in a wonderful design. Does this T-CP8 CD player has a digital out? Can't find that nowhere.
Bought this almost 12 mths ago and echo your review entirely - would say the interface gets a little irritating , I got the black model and its quite hard to read the press buttons , it would be so much better if they were labelled more clearly and if on the top side of the device . Also find removing CD's bit cumbersome - have also noticed some distortion on things like Hammond Organ . Otherwise pleased and as you say for the price a good addition . I think having a remote would have been a great addition even if it jacked the price a little
MONODEAL OFFERS EASILY COMPARABLE QUALITY. AND MUCH MORE TRIM ERGONOMICS. ALSO (EASILY ACCESSIBLE) ILLUMINATED CONTROLS, A MORE SENSIBLE LID, AND MORE FEATURES. IT ALSO WON'T CONFUSED FOR A SMOKE DETECTOR.
Gutted that my local branch of Rough Trade (and I imagine all branches) have now cleared out completely there CD stock. Thankfully HMV haven’t taken that step yet, we are on borrowed time. This looks to be a reasonable portable unit at a decent price.
The problem is that it is a portable CD player, meaning when I buy a CD and that is all I buy, I play it on my home system. If I want to go portable with that album, I just download it to my cute little audiophile portable music player. I can see no need for a portable Cd player with portable high quality digital music players still live and affordable.
Well I did do the hokey cokey with it in the video, so that's a rough gauge and a start I reckon, but I didn't play football with it, if that's what you needed. For the price, it ain't bad.
Because of this video, I received this as a birthday gift! Thank you very much for recommending it! Can someone recommend me a great pair of headphones so I can get the best sound out of them? Thanks! I already tried them with my M20XBT but I don’t think Im getting the best possible sound of this player with those headphones
My CD's will never leave the house. Poor outside handling and storing has led to this myth of CD having a very limited life span. CD rot is caused by poor handling, extreme high and low temperatures, stored in direct sunlight, dirt and grease contaminating the protective lacquer... and so on. If compact discs were handled the same way as records then the life span of CD's will be just that - a life span.
I don’t think the sales pitch for CD, when it was launched, helped at all. You’re right. I can understand why they talked about indestructible media, etc but I also think that caused confusion down the line. So yes, look after you discs and give them respect. Definitely.
wonder how it fairs playing home made recordings burned CD /Mp3's made from Vinyl sources ..burned quite a few over the years some sound better then pre-recorded Cd's
Its a nice unit, but a change of colour for the controls would help. I love CDs, but wouldn't want to carry any around especially as I would be burden free using streaming instead.
Agreed on the controls colour. You could just use it as a small footprint CD player I suppose. Something to sit on a table next to your chair, for example.
CD isn't a niche market. It was roughly selling at parity to LPs in 2020 , outselling previous to that. Thats not the narrative the music industry uses, as there is far more profit for them in this exaggerated vinyl price market than CD. So yes, more money was profitted from vinyl vs CD. Sales of units in 2023 was LPs 43 million vs CD at 37 million. That's not niche numbers
Of course CD is a niche. A very healthy niche but a niche, nevertheless :) And comparing CD with Vinyl (*which is also a niche*, doesn't help). I'm a big, big fan of physical formats but I'm also a realist. Last year, sales from all music physical formats - all of them, vinyl, CD and even tape combined - hit £280 million in the UK. Which sounds great (again, I repeat, a healthy niche, not knocking it). While streaming sales hit £1.6 billion. So physicals are hitting what, 17% or so of digital revenue. CD being only a part of that. So 8%, 9%. In that area? More than that, if you add the physical formats of music plus video (i.e. DVDs, Blu-rays, etc) plus gaming (consoles, etc) then. All entertainment physical format sales combined. All of those merged into one, only reach a sales figure of around £1billon in the UK. Whereas all digital sales combined hit over £11 billion. And that figure is growing fast. Digital is the mass consumer market now. It used to be vinyl, it was CD, even downloads for about five minutes. Now it's digital/streaming. To repeat, I love physicals but every other entertainment-based, 'software'-related, physical format is a niche. Which is not a bad thing. Remember that.
Breakout the Velcro. I still have a Sony round player with opamp anolog out and it sounds great for what it is. But nothing replaces a audiophile cd players. Real transports.
It's horses for courses if you are going to sit down for an evening of pure musical delight then it is not going to come close to say 5k system player amp and speakers, but would it buy it for taking down the garden to use with Bluetooth speakers or headphones yes I would. In damit I might just do that because it's better than being stuck indoors 5k system or not sun and beer 70's prog you know where to find me :-)
Weird. Looks like a smoke detector. And 80 dollars?? No way. I got a used high-end Sony portable CD player for less than half of that. Even has digital out.
Portable cd player no! It's too big & you need a bag full of cd's with you, when a smaller digital mp3 or flac player can do the job better & easier with more choice. The place for cd players are for quality players in the home like I also do, where my large now cheaper (£2 each) cd collection is stored. Cd Portable is not going to take off its too impractical today especially when like me you have 200 high res flac albums on your mobile phone that you can stream in your cars or any Bluetooth speakers that nearly everyone possesses. My vinyl buying has died off due to excessive prices.
Cd remains my primary source which I enjoy immensely . I recently upgraded my cd player from a meridian 808v6 to a dCS Rossini player apex .
CD is here to stay!!!
Yeah, as soon as all these new vinyl fans realize after about 5-10 plays their over-price piece of vinyl sounds like it was used as a flying disc at the beach, the vinyl craze will be over.
I have more CD's than vinyl, my first vinyl self purchase was Electric Warrior T Rex in 71 I think it was released, I was 8 and never stopped buying, I'll be pleased when to vinyl "rush" is over and prices become more sensible if ever they do, I'm a month or two away from a new turntable/arm purchase :)
Look at the life spans though, CD’s have a life span of 20 years, Vinyl 100 years. I have vinyl that sounds as good now, as it did when I bought it 50 years ago. But I have some CD’s that have oxidized because of manufacturing problems, that won’t play anymore.
@@gregcarson3444 I have CD's 40 years old and no sign of rot, nothing lasts forever.
@Chris Shelley I hear you, there are advantages to each format for sure. I do enjoy the sound better on vinyl, but then with a CD you never have the pops and clicks. Sad thing is I have around 200 CD’s and no player anymore, which is why I would like to find a reasonable player to stream into a DAC. Most of the music I listen to these days, are either vinyl or lossless streaming.
Thank you for this review! I went ahead and bought one on your recommendation (Amazon had marked it for 18 quid in the states for some reason) and it has been such a joy to use an easy, elegant CD player to listen to music. I've found myself going into the thrift shop poking around for CDs that look intriguing and have such a large sonic world opened up to me. Thanks again!
I love CD's and vinyl. They sound much better than streaming and I can get them free from my towns transfer station swap area. I also get free vinyl from the swap area. Plus, I don't want another monthly payment for streaming and not all CD's and vinyl are on the streaming services.
Totally with you on that. I've never really understood paying for an album and not physically owning it, I mean that was literally the appeal of building a music collection, or still is in my mind. I stream some stuff, but usually only if I haven't heard it before, then if I like it I go buy the physical copy. You have to wonder if streaming is actually more detrimental to the artists earnings as well, they may get an OK deal now, but once the formats have all been killed off I'd expect these streaming services to really tighten up and squeeze these people.
I recently went to a record fair here in australia, and I saw a table of used classical music CDs. Every single one was two dollars. Even four disc sets. Even CDs still sealed in the original shrinkwrap! And these were good quality releases. You really can't complain about that price, can you. To hell with streaming.
Bought one of these CD players and it arrived today. Very very impressed with the sound quality for the £64 I paid on first listen. It won’t be part of either of my systems, and will instead be used in my home office paired to some Grado head cans. Had I not read your review I’d likely not pulled the trigger on this, so cheers for the review and pointers. I’m well pleased 😃
One year on, is it still working?
In Swedish, "trettitre" means 33. So probably from the record player speed? We pronounce it a bit like "tray-tee-tray".
Many thanks for the explanation.
Same in Norwegian, I would say the pronunciation is like Tre (like Dre , Dr. ) Tay Tre (again). But if it's Swedish then OK you,
I imagine this is aimed at a young market. If that's what it takes to get young people into physical media then it's great news. I still have a Sony D-EG7 Discman that I bought around 1998 and although the sound wasn't very good compared to newer cd players, it still works very well. It's fun to see the cd is still alive.
Very nicely timed video; a big vinyl fan here but guess what? I still and will continue to buy CDs on a regular basis as I always have done because they have their place in my music life which vinyl often just does not fill. I feel at the moment that there is an awful lot of music out there only being released on CD, especially CD Box Sets where I could mention the gorgeous new Jane Birkin box or perhaps Robert Palmer The Island Years. And then there are companies like Cherry Red and others who are releasing super clam shell boxes with 3-4 CDs worth of great music plus inner sleeves and a booklet and only in this format. I just purchased all of the Joe Gibbs Dub albums in one box. Currently, to listen to a CD I have to switch on three hi-fi components so I believe I can see a place for the Trettitre on my desktop connected via BT to my standalone speaker. I just ordered a triple LP set for 87,00€ so this new piece of kit won't break the bank. Greetings from Berlin.
I've been buying and playing more CDs more than ever. And looking for a new decent home CD player
I’ve been collecting physical music now for about 4 years now. Started with vinyl. Then CDs and now even cassette tapes.
My record players is a Sony one. My cd player is a cheap one I got off Amazon. My cassette player is a refurbished Walkman ex-631 I found off eBay.
Physical media till the day I die
This looks interesting. I only regret that there is no optical out on this device, to give the choice of using it as a transport linked to an external dac.
Yes - this is a real opportunity missed. I can imagine the kind of sound if it were linked to say a Mojo2
Yes, that's the exact issue that negates it from being used in any of my systems. I've found that the (what used to be) top of the line CD players from early 2000's with an optical out have become my solution for a budget transport. Have compared some of my thrift solutions to my friends fancy thousand $ transports and ended up irritating my friends (in good fun) once they heard the quality of my solutions that cost $15-$20.
well designed! CD isn't dead .As more companies manage to make Cd sound refine so much better in 3d soundstage ,& balance sound than streaming .With a good Dac ,CD transport,& tube set amp just bring in the magic which streaming cannot compete.
Thank you so much for covering this. Being my specific age (43) I went through thr time period of losing, giving away, and even throwing away CDs when MP3 and especially Lossless formats came out. Fortunately while crate digging for vinyl records I started noticing many CD crates started popping up in thrift stores for between .99 and $2.99 a piece. I started grabbing them up again and now have a collection that my 18 year old self would have lost his mind over. All for ridiculously low capital invested. I've been looking for things to use as a transport considering I use a very good DAC (Bifrost) and anything called a transport costs ridiculous amounts of money. I've settled on the better players from the early 2000's that have an optical or coax out. I've compared actual transports owned by friends to my thrift store counterparts and honestly we've had a hell of a time hearing enough of a difference to justify the expensive transports. I've found my solution but am always curious and on the lookout for other solutions. I don't think this is a solution for me but thank you so much for putting out CD content.
Same here. Streaming is good but what happens when the system goes down? I am now buying used CDs that once retailed between $12-$25 US dollars for $1.00-$6.00. Same with vintage equipment. Carver receivers for under $300 and NAD CD player for $30 and classic RSL speakers for $100. These brands are still working after 25 plus years because I am lucky and they were manufactured right.
No Optical or Coax out is a deal killer for me for any actual Hifi....
me too!
Thanks for the excellent review! One feature I like is, unlike most portable CD players, you can turn off the Anti-Skip buffer, which can sometimes affect the audio quality. Did you test the audio quality with the anti-skip buffer on or off? And could you tell a difference?
I would rather pick a late 90s Sony discman over these new players. But good to see that some companies are releasing decent new discmans these days
Three years ago looking for an affordable portable player with decent sound to take with me on used CD hunts at local resale shops, an HDJUNTUNKOR player for whatever reason came up in more than a couple of discussions so I purchased it on Amazon($40.00) to give it a try. I didn't want to buy a twenty, thirty year old Sony or other brand that I was familiar with that stopped making them. All the new models come from companies I never heard of and wonder if most come from the same or couple of factories in the far east. Anyhoo, this model was slim, has EQ settings and rechargeable batteries that really last and stay charged, but the best thing about it is that it sounds wonderful, surprisingly so. Plays in any position. It really makes a difference with what headphones you use with it. While my in the ear AKGs are fine, my Scosche phones are fantastic with it. I pulled the player out after reading your review and popped Gergiev's Scheherazade with the Kirov Orchestra, turned it on and it was holding a charge after not using it for half a year, and yep, wonderful sound of a wonderful performance.
I re-started collecting CDs several years ago, buying new ones. Streaming music services will erase our culture. Youth won't even be able to remember the artists and songs they enjoyed once they switch services or it goes defunct. They aren't going to have much to share with their kids, grandkids etc culturally speaking. Collect music, Vinyl, CD albums, Tapes, etc. Keep it will preserved and enjoy showing it off. I protect mine, jewel cases and digipaks into a cheap plastic envelope each, then those go into collector boxes. I show them off proudly and it inspires others to enjoy the love of collecting music
Awesome. Also ppl forget if ISP is down, no music. Renting music adds up & credit card fees to faciitate renting are an additional cost
I haven't slept all day-night,& I hope i didn't miss it,but does this cd portable have a 3.5 holes,ports? Hook a 3.5 to the cd & to mY amp?
I still have a Sony portable walkman cd player. I've seen this cd player reviewed already. Might get it sometime. Still looking for a new portable cassette player have acouple Sony's I need to replace. Excellent review.
Hi Paul, Trettitre is 33 in Norwegian, so if there is a connection to Norway with the company maybe that explains the name.
:^)
A portable CD player is something interesting about the small footprint.
What I missed in quiet all this players is that it's no possible to use as transport because they haven't digital outputs.
Great review. Interesting player. Although vinyl is my main media I've bought more cd's lately just because the increase in price for vinyl. They're so cheap!
My old Sony all metal thin elegant cd player I bought 30 years ago .. has the most useful feature of all .. a digital optical out, which I could use with an optical to coaxial converter with my amplifier (Monitor audio A100) which has a good dac (digital to analogue converter) in it
It’s only recently that I was able to get a CD player .. an Amazon branded device (costs £20 and has a very functional remote ) which runs off a standard phone charger or external battery pack for phone charging. (Which makes it movable .. possible to play it without a mains charger unit)
Importantly it has a coaxial wired digital out (and hdmi) which I connect to the dac in my amp and sounds indistinguishable from the great mains £400 Arcam cd player I have .. which has great digital to analogue conversion .
My new set up has a tiny foot 🦶 print in my living room. Very pleased with it and cost £20. The A100 dac amp can be had 2nd hand for 100 to £200
Big question does it place mp three files
Bought the Copper/Black one. Actually the sound is way better than my small Sony/Technics personal CD player collection. Like you I'm a bit shocked at the quality of sound.
I'm looking for a CD transport in that size and price range. They all are players without the ability of having a digital out.
Thank you so much for this detailed review. I just bought the Aiwa PCD-810 which is available brand new on Amazon, but I was tempted by some of the lesser known brands that are a similar price. It seems that major brands have mostly given up on portable CD players in the same way that have with cassette players. I have a 1992 Technics XP6 which is looking and working like new, but when the Aiwa turns up I'll be interested to her how it compares to the XP6. If it's less than impressive I will probably try the Trettitre.
I suppose they could just use the laser assembly out of the portable USB DVD Drives for external use by laptop computers and likely most of the same electronics as well. Probably same as the ridiculously expensive "audiophiles" CD transports out there nowadays. Right off the shelf, no need to reinvent the wheel you know.
I wish it came with a digital coax or toslink output. Anybody know of a similar device with such capability?
Has anyone tried using a headphone DAC (ie Earman Sparrow or other)?
Records was a dying market , look at it now 😁 cds will come back .
Same here!
I probably have over 200 CD’s and have an Onkyo large CD player.
I love my trusty Onkyo. Cracking little player.
I see it's advertised as an in-car BT CD player, which makes the choice of shape, size and colour all the more odd. Not what you could slip inconspicuously into the centre console.
Really? I missed that and yes. Rather curious :)
@@TheAudiophileMan good present for someone who misses their CD player in the car !
Thank you this review. I’m getting sick of Apple Music mucking up my soundtrack collection when rights change so I’ve grabbed this to use the CDs. There is a 15% off code on Amazon U.K. at the moment too.
Question is, is there any reasonable priced CD player, that I can output into a DAC.
Not portable.
For a second there, i was fooled into thinking you were holding up the inner platter of an 1980s Scottish turntable.
If I want to use this at work (our PCs no longer have a disc player in them) to play my CDs through a small Class D amp and some old Polk Audio speakers, using a Ø3.5mm to stereo RCA cable, what volume should I set the T-CP8? 75% maybe or all the way to 100%? Thanks!
Great video there’s something about paying just 8 to 12 bucks for a brand new CD. I also like knowing I own it and it can’t be edited or deleted.
I have Apple Music, Spotify and You Tube music. If I just dropped one of those services and bought one brand new CD a month I’d have a growing collection . 🤔
How are noise levels with CDs. They only say better than 70db and some comments say a noisy floor. If authentic tape hiss on on older prize recordings it's fine (John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman, e.g.) but if overall, please no.
Do they publish which Bluetooth protocols are supported? I couldn't find it on their website. If LDAC, I might buy one. I have a pretty good Sony BluRay optical to Panasonic AVR for CDs but having a Bluetooth option with CDs in hand would be a nice addition. Many CDs I own are not (easily) findable on the usual streams. Some are never streamed. I think Apple is on to something with searchability of Classical streaming. No idea how well they do it.
I good dac chip is probably less than $20 as the SMSL SU-1 is $70.
Will this play MP3 CD-Rs ?
Shenzhen Trittitre Audio company seems to make some really great audio equipment. At least design wise! Have you had a look at het TrePower 1 + 2 amplifiers. One tube amp and the other class AB in a wonderful design. Does this T-CP8 CD player has a digital out? Can't find that nowhere.
Ich habe seit ca 28 Jahre einen Luxman DZ-03 Tube-CD-Player und kaufe immer noch neue CD's!
Bought this almost 12 mths ago and echo your review entirely - would say the interface gets a little irritating , I got the black model and its quite hard to read the press buttons , it would be so much better if they were labelled more clearly and if on the top side of the device . Also find removing CD's bit cumbersome - have also noticed some distortion on things like Hammond Organ . Otherwise pleased and as you say for the price a good addition . I think having a remote would have been a great addition even if it jacked the price a little
Is it possible to mount this device on the wall? Could be very nice and abstract :)
MONODEAL OFFERS EASILY COMPARABLE QUALITY. AND MUCH MORE TRIM ERGONOMICS. ALSO (EASILY ACCESSIBLE) ILLUMINATED CONTROLS, A MORE SENSIBLE LID, AND MORE FEATURES. IT ALSO WON'T CONFUSED FOR A SMOKE DETECTOR.
Gutted that my local branch of Rough Trade (and I imagine all branches) have now cleared out completely there CD stock. Thankfully HMV haven’t taken that step yet, we are on borrowed time. This looks to be a reasonable portable unit at a decent price.
You press the middle spindle to remove discs.
The problem is that it is a portable CD player, meaning when I buy a CD and that is all I buy, I play it on my home system. If I want to go portable with that album, I just download it to my cute little audiophile portable music player. I can see no need for a portable Cd player with portable high quality digital music players still live and affordable.
Can this CD player play gapless playback?
How shock resistant is it? I need a player for my automobile.
Well I did do the hokey cokey with it in the video, so that's a rough gauge and a start I reckon, but I didn't play football with it, if that's what you needed. For the price, it ain't bad.
Because of this video, I received this as a birthday gift! Thank you very much for recommending it! Can someone recommend me a great pair of headphones so I can get the best sound out of them? Thanks! I already tried them with my M20XBT but I don’t think Im getting the best possible sound of this player with those headphones
I still buy loads of cd's, especially 1st press versions. I won’t ever do streaming so cd's and vinyl for me.
Thank you :^)
I love CD
My CD's will never leave the house. Poor outside handling and storing has led to this myth of CD having a very limited life span. CD rot is caused by poor handling, extreme high and low temperatures, stored in direct sunlight, dirt and grease contaminating the protective lacquer... and so on. If compact discs were handled the same way as records then the life span of CD's will be just that - a life span.
I don’t think the sales pitch for CD, when it was launched, helped at all. You’re right. I can understand why they talked about indestructible media, etc but I also think that caused confusion down the line. So yes, look after you discs and give them respect. Definitely.
What were they thinking when designing this? Haha! Too funny. It looks like a scale for kitchen use.
What is a CD?
I wouldn't mind having one - as it doesn't look like the typical portable CD players from the 90's or 2000's.
I love cd s and players
For a Chinese design, it’s surprisingly inspired.
Gave 1500 CD,s to British Heart after copying all to my server, traded my player as part of a vinyl upgrade
Ahh great, was looking for a new smoke alarm 🙃
wonder how it fairs playing home made recordings burned CD /Mp3's made from Vinyl sources ..burned quite a few over the years some sound better then pre-recorded Cd's
Its a nice unit, but a change of colour for the controls would help. I love CDs, but wouldn't want to carry any around especially as I would be burden free using streaming instead.
Agreed on the controls colour. You could just use it as a small footprint CD player I suppose. Something to sit on a table next to your chair, for example.
@@TheAudiophileMan The one thing I did think afterwards Paul is that not all albums are on streaming so it has it's uses.
Looks like a UFO,
which makes it pretty cool .
me encanta poder usarlos, pero creo que lejos sera simpre mejor usar un reproductor sony discman
CD isn't a niche market. It was roughly selling at parity to LPs in 2020 , outselling previous to that. Thats not the narrative the music industry uses, as there is far more profit for them in this exaggerated vinyl price market than CD. So yes, more money was profitted from vinyl vs CD. Sales of units in 2023 was LPs 43 million vs CD at 37 million. That's not niche numbers
Of course CD is a niche. A very healthy niche but a niche, nevertheless :) And comparing CD with Vinyl (*which is also a niche*, doesn't help). I'm a big, big fan of physical formats but I'm also a realist. Last year, sales from all music physical formats - all of them, vinyl, CD and even tape combined - hit £280 million in the UK. Which sounds great (again, I repeat, a healthy niche, not knocking it). While streaming sales hit £1.6 billion. So physicals are hitting what, 17% or so of digital revenue. CD being only a part of that. So 8%, 9%. In that area?
More than that, if you add the physical formats of music plus video (i.e. DVDs, Blu-rays, etc) plus gaming (consoles, etc) then. All entertainment physical format sales combined. All of those merged into one, only reach a sales figure of around £1billon in the UK. Whereas all digital sales combined hit over £11 billion. And that figure is growing fast. Digital is the mass consumer market now. It used to be vinyl, it was CD, even downloads for about five minutes. Now it's digital/streaming. To repeat, I love physicals but every other entertainment-based, 'software'-related, physical format is a niche. Which is not a bad thing. Remember that.
Can it be used as a transport? Desk/tabletop CD player could be useful.
Bugga I didn't know about the Icelandic Prog, I feel so stupider 🤣
Breakout the Velcro. I still have a Sony round player with opamp anolog out and it sounds great for what it is. But nothing replaces a audiophile cd players. Real transports.
It's horses for courses if you are going to sit down for an evening of pure musical delight then it is not going to come close to say 5k system player amp and speakers, but would it buy it for taking down the garden to use with Bluetooth speakers or headphones yes I would. In damit I might just do that because it's better than being stuck indoors 5k system or not sun and beer 70's prog you know where to find me :-)
Hehe
Only bad was battery inside, if fail could stop systens
Review the moon drop portable cd player
What...is that an order?
@@TheAudiophileMan actually it is rather a pre-order. The player literally remained on "pre-order" status and never delivered so... 😂
I like C D s they are good to have, albums, take too much room, where CDs , you can put them in a nice space.
Costs too much for what it does imo. It also needs to double as a CD ROM to be more useful.
Those grooves around the top are going to be dust traps. Not a great feature on a player that you want to easily keep dust free.
Do I get the feeling. He's coming across like Techmoan
Nice detailed review. It looks like a smoke detector.
I still buy cds
It's so low cost, they don't even specify what kind of Bluetooth it is. Probably the really bad kind. No way it has AptX for that price.
Weird. Looks like a smoke detector. And 80 dollars?? No way. I got a used high-end Sony portable CD player for less than half of that. Even has digital out.
Interesting
amazin?
Portable cd player no! It's too big & you need a bag full of cd's with you, when a smaller digital mp3 or flac player can do the job better & easier with more choice. The place for cd players are for quality players in the home like I also do, where my large now cheaper (£2 each) cd collection is stored. Cd Portable is not going to take off its too impractical today especially when like me you have 200 high res flac albums on your mobile phone that you can stream in your cars or any Bluetooth speakers that nearly everyone possesses. My vinyl buying has died off due to excessive prices.
Don't buy this. Bluetooth connectivity really sucks. I sent mines back.
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Yes, see comments elsewhere.
And…CDs are so cheap!
I just wish it wasn't so ugly
This is a cheap plastic toy!😅