Drive 1

About the Drive 1

The Accustic Arts Drive 1 is a high-end CD transport featuring a specially designed tray loading CD drive mechanism that is vibration decoupled for superior audio performance. It has a damped drawer made of aluminum-ABS-compound guided with two metal bearings, and a resonance minimizing metal housing with a front panel of finely brushed aluminum and a massive chromed brass tray cover. The unit includes two separate, generously dimensioned power supply units with 2 x 25 VA toroidal core transformers made in Germany, ensuring high output reserves and stable operation. It supports playback of CD, CD-R, and CD-RW formats and outputs digital audio via coaxial S/P-DIF and optical TOSLINK connectors. The device is handmade in Germany and comes with an Accustic Arts remote control. The design emphasizes organic sound quality with richly textured voices and instruments, providing a natural and believable listening experience. The power indicator remains lit in both play and standby modes and is extinguished only when the rear-panel mains switch is off. The Drive 1 is praised for its ability to reveal micro-data in recordings and offers a presence lock with vocals and incisive transient response. Dimensions are 130 x 482 x 380 mm and it weighs approximately 12 kg.