EMM TSD1 CD/SACD Transport

If there are two absolutes in digital audio, they are that: 1) Jitter never, ever sounds good and 2) Ed Meitner has zero tolerance for jitter. In fact, Ed has spent a lifetime finding innovative new ways to eliminate jitter. Nowhere are the sonic benefits of his work more astonishingly clear than in the new EMM Labs TSD1 CD/SACD disc transport.

Like the DAC2, its companion converter, the TSD1 transport has been endowed with Meitner Digital Audio Translator (MDAT™) signal processing technology. Connect transport and DAC via the single-cable EMM Link interface and your CDs and SACDs are automatically upsampled to 5.6 mHz, double the SACD standard sampling rate.

MDAT™ also dynamically adapts to the transient nature of musical signal instead of addressing it conventionally, as a series of sine waves. This technology enables the TSD1 to do something unheard of in the world of digital audio: preserve the phase and frequency integrity of the original signal.

We think you’ll find EMM’s hardware every bit as impressive as its software. EMM’s new German drive, for example, featuring a hybrid metal composite tray with two stabilizing rods for vibration control. EMM also uses proprietary new technology to isolate the laser assembly from vibration.

Then there’s EMM’s crisp new LCD display. With CD text data and four brightness levels. There’s a silky smooth new machined aluminum chassis too. And a remote control machined from a solid block of aluminum.

All told, we can’t imagine a more perfect way to transport you to the musical event.