Atoll 50 Series Package

Atoll IN50 Integrated Amp, $1200 (50×2)

Atoll’s great 50 Package starts with a price defying integrated amp. Literally everything else in this price strata is a Chinese bucket of chips and wire the size of dental floss.

IN50 has a large toroidal transformer, generous power supply caps, MATCHED MOSFET output transistors- and is made in Atoll’s own house in France with a 3 year warranty.

IN50 literally devastates its Chinese competition in this price class. IN50 has the muscle to drive very substantial loudspeakers like Brystons and Magnepans. If a guy (you?) is looking to get the most performance for his money, you’d be smart to start with IN50 and get the best speakers you can.

Atoll CD50 CD Player, $1650

Atoll’s CD50 CD player is SO GOOD that you be shocked at how much better your CDs can sound, compared to how you’ve been hearing them. CD50 is, of course, also built in France with a 3 year warranty.

Most customers have a cheap Chinese built CD player. They’re under the mistaken impression that CDs sound thin and harsh. THEY DON’T. If you play those same CDs through great player like Atoll’s French built CD50, you’ll hear bass, clarity and warmth you had no idea was hiding in those pits.

CD50 runs three transformers, 16,700uF of filter caps and 8 power supplies. Atoll runs Burr Brown DACs with no negative feedback to attain its warm aura.

Take a look inside the Chinese guys and it’s practically an empty box with one chip doing almost all of the work- yielding a thin, brittle sound.

Let’s say you owned CD50 and loved your CDs. Then you bought a rumbly $250 turntable/cart combo. You would deduce that vinyl sucks. But that wouldn’t be accurate. You’d just need to get a turntable from Rega or higher to hear what your records are capable of.

It’s the same story with CDs. Please consider CD50 to enlighten your passion for silver discs.