DENON DCD-1600NE Premium Silver

Denon is one of the rare audio brands that has continued to actively develop Hi-Fi components and accumulate, refine, and pass down Hi-Fi audio technologies. The DCD-1600NE 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 signal paths are as short as possible and the whole circuitry is minimised. The engineers also redesigned the disc drive mechanism brackets and the chassis to eliminate vibration, the great enemy of disc players, and achieve ultra-vibration-resistant performance. The information on the disc is now read with impeccable accuracy and a clean, high-grade signal is supplied to the DCD-1600NE’s Advanced AL32 Processing Plus circuitry. Besides CD and Super Audio CD playback, the DCD features playback of audio recordings up to PCM192/24 or DSD5.6 recorded on a DVD R/RW for full flexibility and extended access to high-resolution audio.  

Key Features:

• CD Compatibility: CD/CD-R/RW/SA-CD/WMA/MP3/AAC
• Supports all popular music playback formats: MP3/WMA/AAC/WAV/FLAC/ALAC/AIFF/DSD
• Advanced AL32 Processing and Ultra Precision 192kHz/32bit D/A Converter
• DAC Master Clock Circuit Design - jitter-free audio reproduction
• Direct Mechanical Ground Construction - minimises unwanted vibration
• Denon original drive mechanism with S.V.H. loader - accurate pickup and decoding from all discs
• Playback of CD and Super Audio CD
• Separated digital and analogue power supply - preserves audio signal purity

Advanced AL32 Processing Plus

The DCD-1600NE is equipped with Advanced AL32 Processing Plus, the latest version of Denon’s analogue waveform reproduction technology which utilises unique data interpolation algorithms and also supports high-resolution sound sources. These algorithms interpolate points that should exist before and after the points in large quantities of data to achieve a smooth waveform that is close to that of the original signal. By carefully restoring data that was lost during digital recording, the resulting playback sound is highly detailed, free of interference, accurately localised, richly expressive in the lower range, and beautifully faithful to the original sound.

New Denon Original Disk Drive Design

The DCD-1600NE’s disc drive design contains the high-class S.V.H. (Suppress Vibration Hybrid) Mechanism. The circuitry that controls the pickup and decodes the signals read from the disc has been newly developed. Signal paths have been shortened to an absolute minimum and circuits have been miniaturised to ensure that excess current or noise will not occur.

In addition to CD and Super Audio CD, the DCD-1600NE can play DSD(2.8 Mhz / 5.6 MHz) files and high-resolution files up to 192kHz/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.