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ON TEST

France, but is now owned by Chinese high-

end manufacturer Shanling, which manufac-

tures the Heritage CD100 in its factories in

China.

The equipmenT

On unpacking the CD100 I was surprised

to ﬁnd that it didn’t look like the Heritage

CD100 models I’d seen when I was in the

US last year, because whereas those models

had used a slot-loading CD mechanism, the

CD100 sent to me by Audio Heaven had a

standard CD tray. Not that I was complain-

ing, mind you… I’ll take a tray-loader over a

slot-loader any day! According to YBA’s CEO,

Jackie Pugh, the reason for the change from

a slot-loading mechanism to a standard CD

tray was to improve sound quality. ‘After a

couple of months of testing, the decision was

isit your local audio store and you

might be surprised that if you’re

planning on buying a CD player

your choices are going to be fairly

limited. Building CD players is a high-tech

pursuit, not least because of the need to be

able to build highly complex laser CD as-

semblies and most of the companies with the

technology and ﬁnances to build CD trans-

ports are instead building mobile phones and

tablets (because it’s far more proﬁtable!).

So I was pleased to ﬁnd that YBA’s Herit-

age CD100 CD player is now available in

Australia through Melbourne distributor

Audio Heaven, whose PR person, Annabelle

Johnstone, was more than happy to loan me

one for this review.

As for the YBA brand itself, the company

was founded by Yves-Bernard André in

made to change from a slot loader to a tray for

sonic reasons. We believe the quality has im-

proved as a result of this change. Everything else

in the player remained the same,’ she told me.

This change from slot-loading to tray-

loading did upset one aspect of the CD100’s

design that I’d previously thought was in-

credibly clever, and more than a bit elegant.

As you can see from the photograph, the

centre of the (very thick!) aluminium front

panel is bisected by a triangular groove. In

the original slot-loading design, the disc

loader was effectively hidden from sight in-

side this groove, which gave the front panel

a sophisticated ultra-clean look completely

unlike that of most other CD players. In this

new tray-load implementation, the groove

now bisects the front panel of the tray…

rather awkwardly in my opinion.

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Page 1 - YBA Heritage CD100

32AustralianON TESTFrance, but is now owned by Chinese high-end manufacturer Shanling, which manufac-tures the Heritage CD100 in its factories in Chin

Page 2 - LAB REPORT

33avhub.com.auYBA Heritage CD100 CD Player/DACON TESTCheck out the rear panel and you’ll ﬁnd fully-differential balanced output via XLR sockets (more

Page 3 - About YbA

34AustralianON TESTYBA Heritage CD100 CD Player/DACAbout YbAYBA was founded by French designer Yves-Bernard André (yes, he used his initials to create

Page 4 - ConCLusion

35avhub.com.auON TESTYBA Heritage CD100 CD Player/DAC–80, or Mute) and Volume Off (0dB). This didn’t work, because the CD100 outsmarted me by returnin

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36AustralianLAB REPORTYBA Heritage CD100 CD Player/DACCONTINUED FROM PAGE 35LaboraTory TesT reporTThe frequency response of the CD section was excelle

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37avhub.com.auYBA Heritage CD100 CD Player/DACYBA Heritage CD100 CD Player/DACLAB REPORT0.00 Hz 4000.00 8000.00 12000.00 16000.00 20000.00-140.00-120.

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