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Magazine Son & Image - Chord One CD Player

"The Chord One CD player proved to be more than equal to the task in that it allowed us to hear a large quantity of digital to often ignored by other digital source components in this range. Quite honestly, this is one of the best buys on the market. - Sylvain Gagnon, Yves LePage and Eric Parenteau, Magazine Son & Image, March-April 2006.

Stereophile - SPM14000 Mono-block Amplifiers

"The Chord SPM 14000 Ultimate is the finest pure-solid-state amplifier I have auditioned and one of the very finest amplifiers to be found, period. 
 - Paul Bolin, Stereophile March 2006.
   Stereophile Class A Recommended Component

The Absolute Sound - CPM2600 - Feb/Mar 2005

"I was amazed at how much music that I knew well seemed to have about three more layers of texture, with low-level dynamics reproduced so clearly. I got lost in the music on a regular basis - the Chord is a great-sounding amplifier."
  TAS Editors' Choice Award

Inner Ear Report - Blu CD Transport / DAC64 - January 2005

"It's very unusual to find components that simply blow away the competition but the Chord DAC and transport system does just that."

Hi-Fi Choice - Blu CD Transport / Choral Series

"Add the Blu/DAC 64's superbly natural sense of timing and ability to look deeper into a recording than you'd believe possible and the system has an 'alive', super-transparent quality that is utterly compelling.
Yes, it is fiercely analytical - almost shockingly so when you start to hear stuff you swear wasn't on the recording before - but what keeps you listening long into the early hours is the emotional force with which the music connects. 
A large part of the credit goes to the quite stunning performance the Blu transport draws from the DAC 64, perhaps the best CD front-end currently available with its staggering resolving power, wonderfully lucid and expressive mid band and deep, agile and tuneful bass. It delivers musical coherence of the highest caliber and tells it like it is, without smear, blur or exaggeration."
 - David Vivian, Hi-Fi Choice, April 2004

Inner Ear Report - SPM4000

"The SPM 4000 handled this program material with the utmost ease, stunningly faithful to the instruments' sound and gracefully melodic. Some of the best solid state currently on the market. This isn't just another good amplifier, this one is great."

Hi-Fi World - CPM2600

"For your money you get an amplifier that is as solid as military hardware, sounds remarkable and is about as trouble-free as you are ever going to get in hi-fi. It's the pre/power combinations at this price that seem like poor value once you've tried the Chord CPM2600."

Hi-Fi+ - DAC64 - Product of the Year

"The answer to JMH's digital prayers, the Chord DAC 64 uses gate array technology derived from the computer industry built into a typically bombproof casing. Special delay circuitry allows reorganisation of the data-stream, compensating for less than wonderful transports, while superior data handling brings new coherence to the sonic picture delivered from the little silver disc. If you thought Jimmy's review was enthusiastic you should hear what he says in private."
  -  Product of the Year Awards, March/April 2001 

Hi-Fi+ - DAC64

"Chord's DAC64 addresses the real problem with digital audio - a problem 24/96 won't solve! Their solution makes CD sound better than you could ever have imagined. It's not often a product leaves me gobsmacked, but the Chord DAC64 has done just that. I don't think I can live without one."
  - Jimmy Hughes, November 2001, HiFi+.  

Hi-Fi Choice - DAC64

"Surely, with current players and discs, CD has gone about as far as it can performance-wise. Certainly, I'd have said so. Then I heard Chord's DAC64. Now I'm not so sure. Tonally well-balanced and exceptionally clean, the edgy burr that afflicts female vocals and massed violins is largely absent. Middle and low frequencies are very clearly defined, giving the music a solid, focussed quality. 
As a result, the sound has impressive substance and weight - you no longer have to play loudly to achieve a sense of presence and projections. Voices and instruments feel more powerful and dynamic. The range of tone colours is wider and more subtly shaded. Solo violin, for example, has that feathery sweetness you hear live. Yet there's no loss of bite or attack. 
What impresses above all is its completeness. Harsh congested recordings become clean and focussed, while those that sound closed-in and compressed are opened up. Bass is very deep and powerful. Best of all, the stereo imaging is exceptionally vivid and three-dimensional. It's like upgrading your entire CD collection and a stroke!"
  - Jimmy Hughes, The Limiting Factor, Hi-Fi Choice.

Hi-Fi News- CPM2600

"Such an amplifier is this Chord, which is by some margin the most transparent integrated it has been my pleasure to use. It is secure in all departments: solid, fast and completely unshakable in the deep bass, fabulously articulate in the midrange, and with a top end which remains unflinchingly smooth. The CPM2600 is surely above reproach. Powerful beyond the generous implications of its rating, dismissive of difficult loudspeakers, effortlessly coherent. It deserves to be this expensive."
  - Ivor Humphreys, May 2002, Hi-Fi News.

Stereophile - CPM3300 - Class A Recommended Component

"Black backgrounds; fast, sparkling transients; taut, rhythmically adept bass; dynamic ease and superb resolution of low-level detail - the CPM 3300 reproduced it all without sounding mechanical, bright, harmonically bleached, or antiseptic. It produced organized musical excitement and a big, airy dramatic sonic picture..."
  - Michael Fremer, July 2001, Stereophile

What Hi-Fi - CPA4000 / SPM1200E

"This stunning pre/power pairing has a towering sonic performance that puts it right at the front rank of high-end amplifiers. Build quality is superb, from the aluminum casework to the internal components, but most impressive of all is its breathtaking speed and articulation. This quality extends from the lowest frequencies upwards, and the amp's massive power output means that punch, weight and extension are about as good as they get. An extraordinary combination with real clarity and dynamics that is at the forefront of high-powered high-end amplification. A peerless performer."
  - What Hi-Fi?, Ultimate Guide 2002

Hi-Fi Choice - CPM3300

"This ambitious Chord integrated is clearly a very capable amplifier in many ways: it's sensitive, transparent and has a superb grip on level variations or micro-dynamics. If you fancy a compact amp with bags of power there isn't a great deal of competition".
  - Jason Kennedy, May 2001, Hi-Fi Choice

Inner Ear Report - CPA3200

"The CPA3200 accomplished exemplary imaging, with stunning front-to-back layering on a wide and high sound stage. Focus on instruments and voices, space and time coherency is first class."
   - The Inner Ear Report, Vol. 13 #1, 2000.

UHF Magazine - CPM3300

"The demo was meant to be impressive, and it was".
   - Gerard Rejskind, Vegas 2001 Show Report, UHF Magazine.