![]() (Itself purchased earlier this year by Sound United, parent company to Polk Audio and Definitive Technology.)įinally, I find it highly significant that Denon has always manufactured its products in Japan, and I was certainly most pleased to find that this DCD-2500NE is no exception. ![]() That said, I really don’t know for a fact whether Denon was ever tempted to go down-market, but it’s certainly never succumbed, despite being subjected over the years to several mergers, most recently with Marantz, when both brands were owned by D+M Holdings. Denon then produced the first LPs to go on sale in Japan and manufactured a range of professional turntables and phono cartridges for use in recording studios and radio stations-along with open reel and cassette tapes-before building its first range of consumer audio products in 1971.Īnother reason for my admiration is that the company has always built high-quality audio products, having never been tempted to go ‘down-market’ and compromise quality. It was so successful at this that US record giant Columbia took a stake in the company in 1927. One reason for my admiration is that it’s very quietly one of the oldest audio companies in the world, having been established in 1910 to manufacture shellac records and the gramophones to play them. So I should reveal why I have always admired Denon as a company despite the fact that I have only ever owned two Denon products (a DL-103 phono cartridge and a step-up transformer for it) and I have absolutely no affiliations with the company or its distributors. Reviewers are supposed to reveal their biases and affiliations right up front. ![]() Full review and test of Denon DCD-2500NE SACD Player by Australian Hi-Fi Magazine. ![]()
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