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About the Pearl-30c
The Cayin Pearl 30c is a flagship CD transport in Cayin's 30th-anniversary Pearl series, designed purely for high-end digital disc playback rather than as a standalone CD player with built-in DAC. It uses a premium Philips CD-PRO2 top-loading mechanism and a sophisticated dual-chassis design with the power supply housed in a separate enclosure to minimize noise and improve signal purity. Optimized for use with an external D/A converter such as Cayin's matching Pearl 30d, the Pearl 30c focuses on delivering an ultra-stable, low-jitter digital signal via high-quality outputs including coaxial and professional AES/EBU, along with a 10 MHz clock input for external master clock synchronization. Developed to showcase Cayin's state-of-the-art digital engineering at the top of its product line, the Pearl 30c is aimed at reference-level systems where maximum transparency and precision from CD media are required.
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