[>113 dB] Great sound easy to use. Sacds and regular CDs sound great it it. Love it

[>113 dB] Great sound easy to use. Sacds and regular CDs sound great it it. Love it

[>113 dB] Great sound easy to use. Sacds and regular CDs sound great it it. Love it

[120 VAC, 60 Hz] The CD player seems very solid and plays perfectly. There are various options, like playing music from a thumb drive, which I am unlikely to use but is no doubt a good thing. Setting up was exceptionally easy.

[120 VAC, 60 Hz] The CD player seems very solid and plays perfectly. There are various options, like playing music from a thumb drive, which I am unlikely to use but is no doubt a good thing. Setting up was exceptionally easy.

[32 to 320 kb/s] it has a very quiet background , good scale & easy to listen for long . Has good choice of 2 filter ,one for little airy for instrumental music , other for a little close focus singer .The internal DAC does a fair job but my separate tube DAC which is just a little more alive in harmonic decay(perhaps little more distortion),little more resolving .Variable output is great directly connected to power amp opens up little more space.(the default remote setting is for amp use which cannot control vol.digitally . u Need to switch the remote to CD /SACD remote setting (press Enter +2 ).
has not try USB but the bluetooth 5.0 connection has much a lag (disappointment )don't match the lip sing on my SAm phone Fold2 .
Sound is subpar till I can get some equalizing from the app Will try headphone amp later. I bought this solely for SACD .I already have a stand alone CD transport .

[32 to 320 kb/s] it has a very quiet background , good scale & easy to listen for long . Has good choice of 2 filter ,one for little airy for instrumental music , other for a little close focus singer .The internal DAC does a fair job but my separate tube DAC which is just a little more alive in harmonic decay(perhaps little more distortion),little more resolving .Variable output is great directly connected to power amp opens up little more space.(the default remote setting is for amp use which cannot control vol.digitally . u Need to switch the remote to CD /SACD remote setting (press Enter +2 ).
has not try USB but the bluetooth 5.0 connection has much a lag (disappointment )don't match the lip sing on my SAm phone Fold2 .
Sound is subpar till I can get some equalizing from the app Will try headphone amp later. I bought this solely for SACD .I already have a stand alone CD transport .

[2 Vrms] I will try to be brief but helpful here as I really could wax adnaseum on this piece of gear for quite some time and never tire but I won't so hear goes the short review. Buy one. Now. Sell something to help pay for this but get one. Now that you have one, use very good interconnects to,hook up the player to your preamp or integrated. Don't go cheap because you will not hear what the Yamaha can do and I mean really do if you use sub-par or inferior quality interconnects. And use the balanced (XLR) outputs. Some people say it does not make a difference. Well, it does to my ears and they are not as good as they used to be and I still heard a difference between the XLR and RCA outputs. And please, use this player with good ancillary equipment. Cables, preamp, amp, integrated all need to be on a par if you are going to hear what this player is capable of. Give this player a good 60 hours at least to break in whether you believe in that or not. It sounds like poop out of the box. After a week of good play it transforms into one of the best CD playback pieces you will ever experience, bar none. Voices are so real it is scary, piano takes your breath away and the depth and width of the soundstage makes one feel they are about 10 to 15 rows up from the performers. I feel that the Yamaha is as good, if not a little better in some areas (soundstage depth) than my Naim CD5 XS / Teddy Pardo combo, plus the Yamaha gives me the benefit of SACD. I will just briefly mention that I have never heard SACD sound as good as it does through the CDS 2100. So, in summation; buy one now, use the XLR outputs, give it time to break in, PLEASE use it with gear that this piece deserves, sit back and be prepared to have people ask you all the time you are listening while you are smiling so much, or maybe they will ask why your jaw is just hanging open. I know mine does every time I listen.

[38.6 lb] Simple hookup to my receiver . . . the remote has all the features that you could want . . . played some scratched CDs with no problem. B&H service was outstanding as usual.

[38.6 lb] Simple hookup to my receiver . . . the remote has all the features that you could want . . . played some scratched CDs with no problem. B&H service was outstanding as usual.