CH Precision, the benchmark brand in Swiss high-fidelity, is always seeking to go one step further in sound definition quality. Faithful to CD and SACD playback, the company had already released the D1.5 transport in its Series 1 (test VU#43&45), which is now completed with the ultimate D10.
In two chassis like all 10 series elements (to which we can still add a T10 external clock chassis), the D10 is a resolutely ultimate product set apart not only by its separate power supply, but also and above all by its new mechanics.
As explained by the chief engineer in Munich during the show, the D1.5 initially used the best OEM playback mechanism on the market, the Esoteric VRDS, subsequently withdrawn by the Japanese manufacturer to make it exclusive to its players. So, the Swiss engineers had to find an alternative solution with one of the only other mechanics available: the Denon. But when they received this one, they immediately identified that it could not meet the expected performance criteria, particularly in terms of vibration interference.
So the engineers went back to this mechanism to recreate a more massive one and a new drawer, moving from an element weighing just a few hundred grams to an in-house version weighing close to 2 kilos. But with the D10, they went even further, this time creating a huge block, developed for a proprietary aluminium composite version named MORSE, weighing a total of 13 kg and totally controlled in its vibrations (particularly in the subwoofer range) by the fact that it is suspended on alpha-gels in the chassis and the disc is loaded from the top, to avoid a drawer.
In the power supply unit, four totally galvanically isolated sections separate the current for the transport motor, control, DSP and clock, resulting in a total absence of feedback and therefore perfect fluidity of all components. Identifiable by its magnificent top-rotating closure system, the D10 can read CDs and SACDs, and boasts all the digital outputs you could expect from a device of this level, from classic TOSLINK optical and S/PDIF coaxial to AES/EBU and above all CH LINK HD, more ideal than USB for linking the transport to the DACs, and why not to the C10 presented last year and adapted this year in an even superior version.
Weighing between 64 and 66 kg (including the power supply chassis), the D10 is priced at 95 000 € (without the option of connecting it to the T10 clock).
27/05/2025
