Audionet ART G5

The Mother of all CD Players

For all of you aficionados who waited for this to happen: here’s the fifth generation of Audionet’s famed high performance CD player (we’ve skipped one in the developing stage, so here’s the legitimate new, bettered G3, so to speak). The new ART G5 is nothing less than Audionet’s final statement on the perfect transmogrification of the classical compact disc. At the same time, it also represents a thoroughbred high-end D/A converter. Its marvelous sound capabilities can thus be used for all your digital systems, especially computers, via optical and electrical digital inputs.

The new ART G5 with its new and even better drive redefines the hitherto undreamt-of potential of CDs to produce a really involving and fascinating listening experience beyond anything streaming even of the highest bitrates can give you. It literally conquers unexplored sound dimensions, transforming your music into an unprecedented, wholly satisfying experience for the senses. The very best hifi critics have “built a virtual pedestal for this top-notch instrument in (their) editorial office”, as have our very own scientists for their own use at home.

Our development team has re-engineered both the housing and circuitry, subjecting every detail of the machine to stringent checks. The new ART G5 combines an innovative construction and circuitry with the insights gained from the development of STERN and HEISENBERG.

Our 25 years of experience at the forefront of audiophile science bring you an authentic reproduction so good almost nobody would actually suppose a CD as the source. For critical praise and acclaim of its predecessor, please refer to the Reference section further down on this page.

Function

• Compact Disc Player
• D/A converter function for audio- and pc-data

Special Features

• Top loader with damping MDF, aluminium and granite casing construction, solid aluminium cover (10mm), run on Teflon bearings
• Audionet “Aligned Resonance Technology”, decouples transport unit, boards and the clock generator
• customized reference CD drive CD-Pro 8
• Disc stabilizer (puck) and its cylindrical receiver made of POM
• Separate power supplies for read-out and converter unit
• Completely DC-coupled, no capacitors in the signal path
• Discrete, extremely fast and stable filter and output stages
• D/A converter function with USB/SPDIF digital input and optical TosLink input
• Audionet HighBit-Interface with 192 kHz/24 bit output
• AES-EBU output with 96 kHz/24 bit
• Digital outputs can be switched off
• Professional operating concept
• Audionet Metal Remote Control RC 1

In- and Outputs

Standards

• CD, CD-R, CD-RW (finalized and non finalized disks)
• Disc sizes 80 und 120 mm according to IEC 908

Conversion

Technical Data