This is an amazing CD Player. Perfect for the person will a large RedBook Collection. In my experience this CD Player performs better than streaming or playing the wav file of the same CD I dug out all of my CDs from storage and started playing them again. I had previously ripped them all to WAV files. Now, I'm playing them again in this player.The Parasound CD 1 is the result of a collaboration between Parasound and Holm Acoustics in Denmark. The CD 1 demonstrates that CDs can sound significantly better than anyone has imagined possible. The potential of the 16-bit CD format is fully realized for the first time in the CD 1. "It is for those who want to give their CDs proper respect, and who don't care what the 'industry' or editors want us to think," reports Sam Tellig in his July 2013 column for Stereophile magazine. "This is the way to do computer audio." "My vote: Class A," notes Sam's colleague John Marks in Stereophile for June 2013. "Parasound has fulfilled its design goals for the Halo CD 1. If you're prepared to keep playing your CDs and don't care about futureproofing, this is a fantastic player, for reasonable money, given the high quality of its engineering and parts." The Parasound CD 1 demonstrates a new method for playing Compact Discs. To begin with, it employs a CD ROM drive instead of a conventional CD drive. The CD ROM drive is connected to a passively cooled Intel ITX computer. It uses the Linux operating system kernel and Holm's proprietary software that improves the reading of CD disc data. The CD ROM drive is set to run at four times the speed of a conventional CD player drive in order to accumulate a vast amount of data quickly. Because the CD spins at four times the normal speed, the CD 1 has the advantage of being able to read sections of a disc as many times as needed to significantly reduce read errors.
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