Wow, NP, I sure hope you get it. I read the puff piece on it and have no idea what the hell they are talking about.
Someone please explain: "Adaptive Time Filtering (ATF) asynchronous upsampling technology converting 16-bit 44.1 kHz CD data to 24-bit 384 kHz."
And a little tougher is this one: "New virtual earth balanced Bessel anti-aliasing filters with minimum phase and constant group delay." I like "earth balanced." It sounds pretty authorative. Kind of like you are a jerk if you ask. But what does it mean??
"The 740C is the first CD player at the price to provide upsampling technology, a benefit normally bestowed upon products costing up to six times as much." We used to say, " . . . the technology is used in . . . " Bestowed upon! Wow! These guys are hot.
I spent a bit more than a thousand back in '83 or '84 on a ReVox CD player. In a double blind test over Stax Lambda Pro 4 "ear speakers", LOL, it sounded a shade better than the Nakamichi. And as it was Swiss, they machined the whole thing out of tool steel, even the plastic! OK, it still runs. Do I use it? Nahh. It does not play MP3 files. And say what you will, when I tape a show of two or three hours it is kind of nice to have it all on one CD. And, I can play WAV files on the same player, and DVD's and so on. I suppose I should dig out the ReVox just to listen to it.
Anyway, good luck with the earth balanced, upsampled CD player. Cambridge has made some good stuff over the years and I am sure that this is better than what those clowns in marketing are trumpeting about.
L8R