Opera Audio's Ping weds CD player, amplifier, and USB connectivity

by Darren Murph, posted Jun 10th 2007 at 5:43AM

These days, it's not often that a CD player makes you take a second glance, but Opera Audio's Forbidden City Ping is just one of those devices. The interestingly-styled box consists of a Linear Concept CD player meshed with a 100-watt Class A amplifier, AM / FM tuner, and a USB port for streaming tunes in from your PC. The "three-in-one" audio system also sports a 16-bit TDA1543 DAC and the ability to recover the current time from the USB port to display on the front-panel LCD. The Ping comes in black with your choice of red or silver accent plates, and while we're not sure of the asking price just yet, we'll go ahead and assume that this thing is more suited for the affluent set judging by the company's reputation.

[Via AudioJunkies]

Filed under: Other hardware, Players, Others

Tags: cd player, CdPlayer, consonance, Forbidden City, ForbiddenCity, opera, opera consonance, OperaConsonance, ping, Stylist, usb

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Wilbur Pan @ Jun 10th 2007 12:48PM

There's no way that this could be a true 100 watt class A amplifier. The amount of heatsinking that would be needed to disperse the heat generated by a 100 watt class A amplifier is much more than the size of this amplifier. Not to mention all that heat would probably cook the electronics needed to run the CD player, tuner, etc.

Looking at the manufacturer's site, it says that this unit has a "100 watt Cool Class A amplifier". I have no idea what that means.

Neutral

ed w @ Jun 11th 2007 12:54AM

Possibly a PS Hybrid Class A (HCA-2) power amplifier.
Using SDAT amplification the output Mosfets are off much of the time
reducing a lot of heat build up.

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