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To fete its 100th birthday—truly a mark circumstance in the story of some company—the folks from Denon solicited a assemble of gadget writers to their New milker office fresh to wager and center a newborn arrange of limited-edition products, most of them priced at $2,500. Each.

Among them: the $2,500 turntable.

“Where’s the $2,500 iPod utterer dock?” I asked, figuring that that also staleness be something mythologic to wager and hear.

“No iPod dock,” said Denon chief Jeff Talmadge, and spinous me toward the $2,500 S.A.C.D. player. (S.A.C.D. is a accumulation hardware grouping commonly referred to as Super Audio Compact Discs.)

Well, sometimes you’ve got to countenance backwards to countenance ahead, and that’s specially genuine of audiophiles, the accord that Denon is most actively courting with its limited-edition Anniversary Product Collection. Never nous that radical records and S.A.C.D. hit mostly evaporated from the accumulation market. Both sources ease good terrific, especially on Denon’s newborn equipment (and the borrowed B&W loudspeakers; Denon doesn’t attain speakers).

And the consort hasn’t completely unnoticed the 21st century: there’s a beautiful coupler round contestant (universal round players hit daylong been a brawny meet of the company) that does Blu-ray transcription as substantially as customary DVDs and CDs. It weighs a ton (well, O.K., 25 pounds).

Interestingly, Denon was started by an American, town Horn, as the Asian Recorders Corporation, and matured professed transcription devices before World War II. Denon also introduced LP records and biaural equipment (remember stereo?) to the Asian mart in the 1950s, and was the prototypal consort to commercially mart a CD contestant to consumers, in 1982.

The tray is a beauty, modify when static. The metal platter rests on a humble that weighs 30-odd pounds. Its technology, or such of it, is 40 eld old, and it incorporates candid locomote drive, kinda than the more ordinary rubber-belt intend system.

All of the products, which also allow a two-channel desegrated amplifier and a high-end audio-video receiver, go on understanding in Nov at superior Denon dealers. Details are here.

And no iPod docks.