CD is here to stay!!!

Cd remains my primary source which I enjoy immensely . I recently upgraded my cd player from a meridian 808v6 to a dCS Rossini player apex .

Thank you for this review! I went ahead and bought one on your recommendation (Amazon had marked it for 18 quid in the states for some reason) and it has been such a joy to use an easy, elegant CD player to listen to music. I've found myself going into the thrift shop poking around for CDs that look intriguing and have such a large sonic world opened up to me. Thanks again!

No Optical or Coax out is a deal killer for me for any actual Hifi....

I love CD's and vinyl. They sound much better than streaming and I can get them free from my towns transfer station swap area. I also get free vinyl from the swap area. Plus, I don't want another monthly payment for streaming and not all CD's and vinyl are on the streaming services.

I imagine this is aimed at a young market. If that's what it takes to get young people into physical media then it's great news. I still have a Sony D-EG7 Discman that I bought around 1998 and although the sound wasn't very good compared to newer cd players, it still works very well. It's fun to see the cd is still alive.

Thank you so much for this detailed review. I just bought the Aiwa PCD-810 which is available brand new on Amazon, but I was tempted by some of the lesser known brands that are a similar price. It seems that major brands have mostly given up on portable CD players in the same way that have with cassette players. I have a 1992 Technics XP6 which is looking and working like new, but when the Aiwa turns up I'll be interested to her how it compares to the XP6. If it's less than impressive I will probably try the Trettitre.

Very nicely timed video; a big vinyl fan here but guess what? I still and will continue to buy CDs on a regular basis as I always have done because they have their place in my music life which vinyl often just does not fill. I feel at the moment that there is an awful lot of music out there only being released on CD, especially CD Box Sets where I could mention the gorgeous new Jane Birkin box or perhaps Robert Palmer The Island Years. And then there are companies like Cherry Red and others who are releasing super clam shell boxes with 3-4 CDs worth of great music plus inner sleeves and a booklet and only in this format. I just purchased all of the Joe Gibbs Dub albums in one box. Currently, to listen to a CD I have to switch on three hi-fi components so I believe I can see a place for the Trettitre on my desktop connected via BT to my standalone speaker. I just ordered a triple LP set for 87,00€ so this new piece of kit won't break the bank. Greetings from Berlin.

Thank you :^) I love CD

Bought one of these CD players and it arrived today. Very very impressed with the sound quality for the £64 I paid on first listen. It won’t be part of either of my systems, and will instead be used in my home office paired to some Grado head cans. Had I not read your review I’d likely not pulled the trigger on this, so cheers for the review and pointers. I’m well pleased 😃

I've been buying and playing more CDs more than ever. And looking for a new decent home CD player

In Swedish, "trettitre" means 33. So probably from the record player speed? We pronounce it a bit like "tray-tee-tray".

I still have a Sony portable walkman cd player. I've seen this cd player reviewed already. Might get it sometime. Still looking for a new portable cassette player have acouple Sony's I need to replace. Excellent review.

Great review. Interesting player. Although vinyl is my main media I've bought more cd's lately just because the increase in price for vinyl. They're so cheap!

Thank you so much for covering this. Being my specific age (43) I went through thr time period of losing, giving away, and even throwing away CDs when MP3 and especially Lossless formats came out. Fortunately while crate digging for vinyl records I started noticing many CD crates started popping up in thrift stores for between .99 and $2.99 a piece. I started grabbing them up again and now have a collection that my 18 year old self would have lost his mind over. All for ridiculously low capital invested. I've been looking for things to use as a transport considering I use a very good DAC (Bifrost) and anything called a transport costs ridiculous amounts of money. I've settled on the better players from the early 2000's that have an optical or coax out. I've compared actual transports owned by friends to my thrift store counterparts and honestly we've had a hell of a time hearing enough of a difference to justify the expensive transports. I've found my solution but am always curious and on the lookout for other solutions. I don't think this is a solution for me but thank you so much for putting out CD content.

Thank you this review. I’m getting sick of Apple Music mucking up my soundtrack collection when rights change so I’ve grabbed this to use the CDs. There is a 15% off code on Amazon U.K. at the moment too.

Gutted that my local branch of Rough Trade (and I imagine all branches) have now cleared out completely there CD stock. Thankfully HMV haven’t taken that step yet, we are on borrowed time. This looks to be a reasonable portable unit at a decent price.

My old Sony all metal thin elegant cd player I bought 30 years ago .. has the most useful feature of all .. a digital optical out, which I could use with an optical to coaxial converter with my amplifier (Monitor audio A100) which has a good dac (digital to analogue converter) in it It’s only recently that I was able to get a CD player .. an Amazon branded device (costs £20 and has a very functional remote ) which runs off a standard phone charger or external battery pack for phone charging. (Which makes it movable .. possible to play it without a mains charger unit) Importantly it has a coaxial wired digital out (and hdmi) which I connect to the dac in my amp and sounds indistinguishable from the great mains £400 Arcam cd player I have .. which has great digital to analogue conversion . My new set up has a tiny foot 🦶 print in my living room. Very pleased with it and cost £20. The A100 dac amp can be had 2nd hand for 100 to £200

If I want to use this at work (our PCs no longer have a disc player in them) to play my CDs through a small Class D amp and some old Polk Audio speakers, using a Ø3.5mm to stereo RCA cable, what volume should I set the T-CP8? 75% maybe or all the way to 100%? Thanks!

Three years ago looking for an affordable portable player with decent sound to take with me on used CD hunts at local resale shops, an HDJUNTUNKOR player for whatever reason came up in more than a couple of discussions so I purchased it on Amazon($40.00) to give it a try. I didn't want to buy a twenty, thirty year old Sony or other brand that I was familiar with that stopped making them. All the new models come from companies I never heard of and wonder if most come from the same or couple of factories in the far east. Anyhoo, this model was slim, has EQ settings and rechargeable batteries that really last and stay charged, but the best thing about it is that it sounds wonderful, surprisingly so. Plays in any position. It really makes a difference with what headphones you use with it. While my in the ear AKGs are fine, my Scosche phones are fantastic with it. I pulled the player out after reading your review and popped Gergiev's Scheherazade with the Kirov Orchestra, turned it on and it was holding a charge after not using it for half a year, and yep, wonderful sound of a wonderful performance.

Ich habe seit ca 28 Jahre einen Luxman DZ-03 Tube-CD-Player und kaufe immer noch neue CD's!

I’ve been collecting physical music now for about 4 years now. Started with vinyl. Then CDs and now even cassette tapes. My record players is a Sony one. My cd player is a cheap one I got off Amazon. My cassette player is a refurbished Walkman ex-631 I found off eBay. Physical media till the day I die

Great video there’s something about paying just 8 to 12 bucks for a brand new CD. I also like knowing I own it and it can’t be edited or deleted. I have Apple Music, Spotify and You Tube music. If I just dropped one of those services and bought one brand new CD a month I’d have a growing collection . 🤔

Shenzhen Trittitre Audio company seems to make some really great audio equipment. At least design wise! Have you had a look at het TrePower 1 + 2 amplifiers. One tube amp and the other class AB in a wonderful design. Does this T-CP8 CD player has a digital out? Can't find that nowhere.

I love cd s and players

This looks interesting. I only regret that there is no optical out on this device, to give the choice of using it as a transport linked to an external dac.

I haven't slept all day-night,& I hope i didn't miss it,but does this cd portable have a 3.5 holes,ports? Hook a 3.5 to the cd & to mY amp?

Ahh great, was looking for a new smoke alarm 🙃

For a second there, i was fooled into thinking you were holding up the inner platter of an 1980s Scottish turntable.

Big question does it place mp three files

Is it possible to mount this device on the wall? Could be very nice and abstract :)

Interesting

I would rather pick a late 90s Sony discman over these new players. But good to see that some companies are releasing decent new discmans these days

Has anyone tried using a headphone DAC (ie Earman Sparrow or other)?

Same here! I probably have over 200 CD’s and have an Onkyo large CD player.

Records was a dying market , look at it now 😁 cds will come back .

I still buy loads of cd's, especially 1st press versions. I won’t ever do streaming so cd's and vinyl for me.

Bought the Copper/Black one. Actually the sound is way better than my small Sony/Technics personal CD player collection. Like you I'm a bit shocked at the quality of sound.

I wouldn't mind having one - as it doesn't look like the typical portable CD players from the 90's or 2000's.

Hi Paul, Trettitre is 33 in Norwegian, so if there is a connection to Norway with the company maybe that explains the name.

I wish it came with a digital coax or toslink output. Anybody know of a similar device with such capability?

How are noise levels with CDs. They only say better than 70db and some comments say a noisy floor. If authentic tape hiss on on older prize recordings it's fine (John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman, e.g.) but if overall, please no. Do they publish which Bluetooth protocols are supported? I couldn't find it on their website. If LDAC, I might buy one. I have a pretty good Sony BluRay optical to Panasonic AVR for CDs but having a Bluetooth option with CDs in hand would be a nice addition. Many CDs I own are not (easily) findable on the usual streams. Some are never streamed. I think Apple is on to something with searchability of Classical streaming. No idea how well they do it.

Bugga I didn't know about the Icelandic Prog, I feel so stupider 🤣

Bought this almost 12 mths ago and echo your review entirely - would say the interface gets a little irritating , I got the black model and its quite hard to read the press buttons , it would be so much better if they were labelled more clearly and if on the top side of the device . Also find removing CD's bit cumbersome - have also noticed some distortion on things like Hammond Organ . Otherwise pleased and as you say for the price a good addition . I think having a remote would have been a great addition even if it jacked the price a little

Can this CD player play gapless playback?

You press the middle spindle to remove discs.

For a Chinese design, it’s surprisingly inspired.

Looks like a UFO, which makes it pretty cool .

What were they thinking when designing this? Haha! Too funny. It looks like a scale for kitchen use.

Will this play MP3 CD-Rs ?

Question is, is there any reasonable priced CD player, that I can output into a DAC.

I'm looking for a CD transport in that size and price range. They all are players without the ability of having a digital out.

I see it's advertised as an in-car BT CD player, which makes the choice of shape, size and colour all the more odd. Not what you could slip inconspicuously into the centre console.

Nice detailed review. It looks like a smoke detector.

I good dac chip is probably less than $20 as the SMSL SU-1 is $70.

me encanta poder usarlos, pero creo que lejos sera simpre mejor usar un reproductor sony discman

wonder how it fairs playing home made recordings burned CD /Mp3's made from Vinyl sources ..burned quite a few over the years some sound better then pre-recorded Cd's

I suppose they could just use the laser assembly out of the portable USB DVD Drives for external use by laptop computers and likely most of the same electronics as well. Probably same as the ridiculously expensive "audiophiles" CD transports out there nowadays. Right off the shelf, no need to reinvent the wheel you know.

How shock resistant is it? I need a player for my automobile.

It's horses for courses if you are going to sit down for an evening of pure musical delight then it is not going to come close to say 5k system player amp and speakers, but would it buy it for taking down the garden to use with Bluetooth speakers or headphones yes I would. In damit I might just do that because it's better than being stuck indoors 5k system or not sun and beer 70's prog you know where to find me :-)

Its a nice unit, but a change of colour for the controls would help. I love CDs, but wouldn't want to carry any around especially as I would be burden free using streaming instead.

I still buy cds

I like C D s they are good to have, albums, take too much room, where CDs , you can put them in a nice space.

amazin?

Breakout the Velcro. I still have a Sony round player with opamp anolog out and it sounds great for what it is. But nothing replaces a audiophile cd players. Real transports.

The problem is that it is a portable CD player, meaning when I buy a CD and that is all I buy, I play it on my home system. If I want to go portable with that album, I just download it to my cute little audiophile portable music player. I can see no need for a portable Cd player with portable high quality digital music players still live and affordable.

Gave 1500 CD,s to British Heart after copying all to my server, traded my player as part of a vinyl upgrade

Only bad was battery inside, if fail could stop systens

Do I get the feeling. He's coming across like Techmoan

Costs too much for what it does imo. It also needs to double as a CD ROM to be more useful.

I re-started collecting CDs several years ago, buying new ones. Streaming music services will erase our culture. Youth won't even be able to remember the artists and songs they enjoyed once they switch services or it goes defunct. They aren't going to have much to share with their kids, grandkids etc culturally speaking. Collect music, Vinyl, CD albums, Tapes, etc. Keep it will preserved and enjoy showing it off. I protect mine, jewel cases and digipaks into a cheap plastic envelope each, then those go into collector boxes. I show them off proudly and it inspires others to enjoy the love of collecting music

Can it be used as a transport? Desk/tabletop CD player could be useful.

My CD's will never leave the house. Poor outside handling and storing has led to this myth of CD having a very limited life span. CD rot is caused by poor handling, extreme high and low temperatures, stored in direct sunlight, dirt and grease contaminating the protective lacquer... and so on. If compact discs were handled the same way as records then the life span of CD's will be just that - a life span.

Review the moon drop portable cd player

Weird. Looks like a smoke detector. And 80 dollars?? No way. I got a used high-end Sony portable CD player for less than half of that. Even has digital out.

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Portable cd player no! It's too big & you need a bag full of cd's with you, when a smaller digital mp3 or flac player can do the job better & easier with more choice. The place for cd players are for quality players in the home like I also do, where my large now cheaper (£2 each) cd collection is stored. Cd Portable is not going to take off its too impractical today especially when like me you have 200 high res flac albums on your mobile phone that you can stream in your cars or any Bluetooth speakers that nearly everyone possesses. My vinyl buying has died off due to excessive prices.

And…CDs are so cheap!

I just wish it wasn't so ugly

Don't buy this. Bluetooth connectivity really sucks. I sent mines back.

This is a cheap plastic toy!😅

It looks like a giant dial. The people who designed this need to be ashamed of themselves