No sooner had we got news of its compact streamer, Mission has followed up with the release of a matching CD transport, dubbed the 778CDT.
Designed to partner the brand’s growing half-width series, kicked off by the 778X amp, the 778CDT boasts a high-precision CD mechanism and custom-designed servo control for stable disc rotation and tracking.
This is then married to a robust dual-core processing framework, featuring a 32-bit RISC (Reduced Instruction Set Computer) CPU and a dedicated MCU.
Other considered components include an ultra-low-noise toroidal transformer with separate power supplies to the motor, laser servo circuits and decoder stage.
A TCXO (Temperature-Compensated Crystal Oscillator) provides an ultra-precise master clock for the servo and decoder section, powered by its own independent, ultra-low-noise linear regulator and grounding scheme.
It looks versatile too, with CD-R, CD-RW and data CD playback on offer alongside standard ‘Red Book’ CDs, with a rear-panel USB-A port for accessinng externally stored media in FLAC, WAV, WMA, AAC, MP3 and APE audio formats.
Priced at a highly affordable £449 (and at £1,099 if you buy it as a bundle with the matching streamer, saving you £149) in black or silver, visit mission.co.uk to find out more.
