Technics SC-CX700 Review: Faithful Musical Reproduction

The first speaker options a number of bodily controls throughout its high floor, however larger management is obtainable by way of an unglamorous distant management handset. There’s additionally the Technics Audio Middle management app that’s free for iOS and Android. It takes the idea of “unglamorous” to beforehand unimagined locations, however it’s a steady and helpful sufficient interface. No, it’s not the swiftest in operation, and no, it’s nobody’s thought of a visible deal with—however if you wish to combine your favourite music streaming service (so long as it’s Amazon Music, Deezer, Qobuz, Spotify, or TIDAL), test on firmware updates, run the House Tune room-correction routine, entry bass and treble controls and so forth, it’s received every part you want.

Relying on how your digital content material comes aboard, decision of as much as 32 bit/384 kHz PCM and DSD 256 is supported. Should you make a wi-fi connection between the audio system, every part is scaled to 24 bit/96 kHz, however with a wired connection and 24 bit/192 kHz is obtainable. Ethernet or Wi-Fi connectivity implies that web radio is catered for, as are Apple AirPlay and Google Forged, and the SC-CX700 shall be Roon Prepared quickly, by way of an upcoming over-the-air replace.

Simple Listening

When you’ve tuned the SC-CX700 to your area, organized the house web page of the management app to your satisfaction, and have began to hear in earnest, there’s lots to admire and revel in in the way in which this Technics system sounds. There’s nothing ostentatious or in any manner in-your-face in regards to the sound, however in its personal manner, the SC-CX700’s are a compelling hear.

That’s the case regardless of whether or not you’re taking part in a heavyweight vinyl reissue of “Les Stances a Sophie,” by Artwork Ensemble of Chicago, streaming a 24-bit/96-kHz FLAC file of Nick Cave and the Dangerous Seeds’ “Last Rescue Try,” or listening to a compact disc of “All Mirrors,” by Angel Olsen by way of the digital optical enter. The Technics is all the time a rigorously managed, pointedly balanced, and principally unflappable performer.

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