Hello Everyone, This is a review and detailed measurements of the Teac VRDS-25X Stereo CD Player. This is my second review of a "legendary" Teac VRDS...
The TEAC pulls well ahead of the Cyrus when it comes to features. The Cyrus is a standard integrated CD player and doesn’t have digital inputs. We try those of the VRDS-701 and are impressed. Everything we like about the player’s sound with CDs is still apparent through any of the...
The heart of this player is the new VRDS Atlas transport mechanism. Esoteric, and by extension, its parent companyTEAC, has long bucked the trend when it comes to disc transports. Rather than simply buy-in the mechanisms from OEM suppliers, as most other companies do, it has gone down the...
Teac’s supplied remote is unfancy but complete and functional, though a bit short on ergonomic refinement: its 22 identically shaped and surfaced small buttons are laid out to visual, but hardly tactile logic. Nevertheless, this gives hands-free access to virtually all the 701N’s features a...
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I ordered the TEAC CD-P650, since it has a USP port which taps the digital output of iPods and runs it through its own Burr Brown DAC. Reply May 19, 2011 Anonymous Low impedance headphones with high sensitivity should be easy to drive out of an average CD player headphone out. ...
I'm so glad to read everyone's having problems with the Fire CDRW Burner. The tech folks at Que Blamed Toast folks, who said it was a firmware issue. The Que folks were no help saying call Teac for firmware. Teac offers firmware for Windows but not Mac. I've had a 10% success ...
A factor to note is the usability. Using JRMC might be comfortable for some, using Roon does the trick for others. Several other audiophile player software comes to mind. I'd guess that playing DSD native, mixed with HiRez and CD-Quality flac would be the most appropriate for the d...