CH Precision

D1.5 SACD/CD player/transport

Introduced 2021$44,000 MSRP

The CH Precision D1.5 is a modular, upgradeable Swiss-engineered CD/SACD player-transport built around the company's proprietary in-house MORSe transport mechanism, offering reference-grade digital output and, with optional dual-mono DAC boards installed, full single-chassis playback. It supports MQA-CD decoding and can serve either as a dedicated digital transport (CH-Link HD, AES/EBU, S/PDIF, or TosLink outputs) or as a complete player when fitted with its analog output boards.

MSRP

$44,000

Used market · Good

$21,750

-51% vs MSRP

as of Sep 1, 2026

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Specifications

Weight: 22kg
Dimensions: 440 x 133 x 440mm (44 x 13.3 x 44cm)
Digital outputs: CH-Link HD, AES/EBU (XLR), S/PDIF (RCA), and TosLink — one of each per digital output board (standard: 1 of each); PCM 16-24 bit up to 88.2kHz and DSD 1-bit/2.8224MHz; MQA raw or unfolded to 24-bit/88.2kHz OFS
Published price: 44000 USD
Dynamic range SNR: >96dB dynamic range for CD, >120dB for SACD; >120dB signal-to-noise ratio for both formats; THD+N <0.002% (CD), <0.0015% (SACD)
Analog output level: 4V RMS balanced, 2V RMS single-ended
Dimensions w x h x d: 440 x 133 x 440mm (44 x 13.3 x 44cm)
Price transport only: £31,500
DAC chip architecture: Optional dual-mono DAC boards built around the Wolfson/Cirrus Logic WM8742 delta-sigma DAC, used only for its conversion stage; CH Precision's own DSP daughter board performs sample-rate conversion, MQA decoding, CD upsampling and filtration using its proprietary "PEtER" spline-based interpolation filter, feeding a DXD stream into the WM8742 core
Disc formats supported: CD, CD-R, CD-RW (Stereo PCM 16-bit/44.1kHz, Red Book); MQA-CD; SACD single-layer and hybrid stereo (DSD 1-bit/2.8224MHz, Scarlet Book)
Price player transport: £36,900; trade-in program available for existing D1 owners
Price player transport with DAC boards: £36,900; trade-in program available for existing D1 owners