Yamaha CD-S3000 CD/SACD (Silver)

This unit is OPEN box, almost unused, except for short demo’s

A piano comes into this world through the perfect synergy of advanced technical skill and artistry. Such a piano can create sound that truly reflects the player’s feelings.

The final stage in piano production is called “voicing.” This breathes life into the instrument and truly makes it musical. To accomplish this, highly skilled experts focus their concentration and sensitivity completely on each note and delicately adjust the hardness and resilience of the hammers that strike the strings, establishing the perfect, consistent sound for the entire instrument and determining its tonal personality.

Yamaha brings this exact same approach and process to its audio products. Our experienced technicians perform exhaustive listening tests and strictly consider every single element and component, to draw closer—step by meticulous step—to the ideal sound.

Introducing the S3000 Series, the absolute culmination of hi-fidelity audio. Yamaha knows all about sound and even more about music, and has brought all its rich artistic sensitivity into the creation of this line.

All the energy and finely nuanced technique of the artist, all the power and subtlety of the original music is fully reproduced, with absolutely nothing left out. The result is a remarkably pure sound—powerfully expressive and exquisitely profound.

Beautiful and elegant in appearance, sturdy and reliable in construction, created with the latest, innovative technology and genuine craftsmanship—all nurtured by our long experience in the manufacture of musical instruments.

Yamaha proudly offers this new high-end lineup, delivering supreme quality in every way. This is the manifestation of our passion to give music lovers the ultimate in listening enjoyment—a tradition we’ve been carrying on and advancing for more than 125 years.

The Yamaha CD-S3000 is not simply a disc player, because to survive as a CD/SACD player in 2015, a device also needs to support a range of digital inputs. The Yamaha CD-S3000 comes with coaxial, optical, and USB inputs. Yamaha supports DSD64 and DSD128 file replay, but rolls its own Steinberg ASIO driver for PC and Mac, and its website has a recommended configuration for Foobar replay. Essentially, instead of the more commonplace ‘DoP’ system (where the DSD file is wrapped in a pseudo-PCM outer shell to be read by compatible hardware and software) this sends native DSD files from computer to player. It’s unclear whether DSD sounds better this way or through DoP, or indeed whether there is a difference to be heard at all. Both DSD and PCM files are fed through the player’s ESS9018 32bit 192kHz Sabre DAC. The CD-S3000 has balanced and single-ended outputs.