While the industry was shifting toward cheaper 1-bit "Bitstream" converters in the late '90s, Marantz chose to return to the pinnacle of multi-bit technology for the Project D-1.
At first glance, the CD-1 is a monument to mechanical isolation. The golden rule of digital transport design is simple: read the data accurately, but transfer it with zero timing error (jitter). Marantz went to extreme lengths to enforce this rule. marantz project d-1