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ATC CDA2 MK2

packs a CD player, fully featured digital-to-analogue converter and a high quality analogue preamplifier. It’s not a common combination of abilities, and while the obvious path is to compare this ATC with separates components that add up to the similar overall price, that doesn’t seem wholly fair. Going the separates route triples the box count and adds the cost (and mess) of additional cabling, but potentially at least, delivers a better quality of sound. Or so

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