Onix at Walrus

Onix

Onix XCD-50 Reference CD Player

The Onix has wowed us with its superb analogue-like sound quality. But that's only half the story, for it's superbly put together too, and very sleek looking. A "fingerprint magnet"? Yes, probably, but that's one of the things you have to put up with if you like the minimalism of gloss lacquer finish.

Featuring a high quality mechanism with a CD stabilising puck and separate dust cover, it also has both balanced and single ended digital and audio outputs.

Some key info:

Philips CD-Pro2 transport
Burr Brown PCM1796 – 24/192 DAC
Dual differential output
Low jitter system with proprietary re-clocking
Two separate transformers (1 for digital & 1 for analogue stage)
Extremely low distortion (0.0015% @ 1KHz)
Piano black lacquer wood chassis