{"id":13147,"date":"2024-10-29T22:50:48","date_gmt":"2024-10-29T22:50:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/topat10.com\/?p=13147"},"modified":"2024-10-29T22:50:48","modified_gmt":"2024-10-29T22:50:48","slug":"technics-sc-cx700-review-faithful-musical-reproduction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/topat10.com\/?p=13147","title":{"rendered":"Technics SC-CX700 Review: Faithful Musical Reproduction"},"content":{"rendered":"


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The primary speaker features a few physical controls across its top surface, but greater control is available via an unglamorous remote control handset. There\u2019s also the Technics Audio Center control app that\u2019s free for iOS and Android. It takes the concept of \u201cunglamorous\u201d to previously unimagined places, but it\u2019s a stable and useful enough interface. No, it\u2019s not the swiftest in operation, and no, it\u2019s no one\u2019s idea of a visual treat\u2014but if you want to integrate your favorite music streaming service (as long as it\u2019s Amazon Music, Deezer, Qobuz, Spotify, or TIDAL), check on firmware updates, run the Space Tune room-correction routine, access bass and treble controls and so on, it\u2019s got everything you need.<\/p>\n

Depending on how your digital content comes aboard, resolution of up to 32 bit\/384 kHz PCM and DSD 256 is supported. If you make a wireless connection between the speakers, everything is scaled to 24 bit\/96 kHz, but with a wired connection and 24 bit\/192 kHz is available. Ethernet or Wi-Fi connectivity means that internet radio is catered for, as are Apple AirPlay and Google Cast, and the SC-CX700 will be Roon Ready soon, via an upcoming over-the-air update.<\/p>\n

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Once you\u2019ve tuned the SC-CX700 to your space, arranged the home page of the control app to your satisfaction, and have started to listen in earnest, there\u2019s plenty to admire and enjoy in the way this Technics system sounds. There\u2019s nothing ostentatious or in any way in-your-face about the sound, but in its own way, the SC-CX700’s are a compelling listen.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s the case no matter whether you\u2019re playing a heavyweight vinyl reissue of \u201cLes Stances a Sophie,\u201d by Art Ensemble of Chicago, streaming a 24-bit\/96-kHz FLAC file of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds\u2019 \u201cFinal Rescue Attempt,\u201d or listening to a compact disc of \u201cAll Mirrors,\u201d by Angel Olsen via the digital optical input. The Technics is always a carefully controlled, pointedly balanced, and basically unflappable performer.<\/p>\n

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