ARCAM CD5: CD player with USB playback and digital/analogue outputs (Radia Series)

The ARCAM CD5 is built for those intimate listening sessions with your favourite music on Compact Disc—simple, direct, and focused on sound quality. ARCAM has a long heritage in CD playback (dating back to 1986), and that experience is poured into the CD5 through carefully selected components and materials aimed at delivering clean, musical and consistent performance.

Alongside CD, CD‑R and CD‑RW playback, the CD5 adds USB‑A mass storage playback—handy for a library of rips and downloads on a USB stick. ARCAM states support for WAV (LPCM), FLAC, MP3, AAC and WMA files, with up to 24‑bit playback and sample rates up to 96 kHz (WAV/FLAC). This makes the CD5 a practical choice if you want the CD ritual, plus quick access to hi‑res capable file playback without relying on streaming.

For system integration, the CD5 provides a stereo analogue RCA output for direct connection to an integrated amplifier, plus coaxial and optical digital outputs if you prefer to use an external DAC or your amplifier’s built‑in DAC. That flexibility is ideal for systems that may evolve over time: start simple via RCA, then experiment with a dedicated DAC later.

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Technical specifications (specs) — ARCAM CD5

Buy with specialist support in Viseu

At MestresDaMúsica in Viseu, we’ll help you integrate the ARCAM CD5 into your system (RCA or digital into a DAC), and match it with the right amplifier and speakers to get the most from your CDs and USB files. If you’re building an ARCAM Portugal system, we can also suggest well-balanced Radia combinations.

Source (manufacturer): ARCAM CD5 (official site)