30th lecture? – Not quite. This is the Ancient Audio Lektor30 Anniversary, a simplified top-loading CD player with CD-Pro8 transport to lower the flagship Lektor Joy's ask to €7'000. So it omits extra inputs and the full-metal cab, downscales to one power transformer and a stereo not dual-mono converter but the drive, DAC chip and analog preamplifier/output stage as well as control module, display and remote are the same. The enclosure combines aluminium and tempered mineral glass whilst the firmware controlling the Austrian transport is written in-house and the mechanism, display and DAC all run off the same 16'9344MHz clock to eliminate jitter. Installing the brand's Digital Speaker Processor is optional. The variable outputs allow for a purist amp-direct connection.
