This big budget player does credit Denon with its cracker of a processor that powers the performance to an enthralling extent. And the DCD-1510AE offers so much more What we've come to love about Denonis their catering capacity. If you were to look up entry level A V receivers for example, you'll find Denon amongst the set of contenders with not just one model catering to this range but several. You'll also find Onkyo and a handful of others, but as soon as you crank up the price range to hi-end, you'll find a lot of the other audio manufacturers only have a handful of products they call their 'flagship' range and then you have Denon with a huge range that goes from subwoofers to A V receivers to the DCD- 1510AE CD player.

OUT OF THE BOX
Be it an entry level CD player or a higher end one like this DCD¬151OAE, the aesthetics never fail to ooze out classiness. The metallic chassis with beautifully shaped buttons and the disc tray at the top centre right above the display is very Denon-like and as far as we're concerned, this look never gets old. Everything about this player seems tough, from the firmness of the buttons to the disc tray, which we're so glad Denon hasn't traded in for fancier slot loading. It looks really tough too, and the black finish we got had the guy blending into the darkness seamlessly. The player looks serious enough even for the audiophiles and can even be paired with some of the more casual looking amplifiers out there without sticking out like a sore thumb. In its silver-gold finish, the aesthetics get a little bit more business-like and will need to be paired with equipment with the same kind of silver finish otherwise it will look out of place.

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TECHNOLOGY
The DCD-1510AE is primarily an SACD player whose electronics are also very fond of CDs, W A V s and MP3s via the CD tray or the USB port on the front panel that's willing to accept anything from pen drives to hard-discs. The data stream that comes from these devices is run through Advanced AL32 processing that Denon claims will 'deliver superior sound quality'. This processor expands standard 16-bit audio data usually found on MP3s and WAYs to 32-bits and uses special algorithms to interpolate the data and perform up-conversion and sampling. The use of algorithms for frequency characteristics outside the audible range to filter out sudden butsts of musical data or continuous sound at high frequencies protects the quality of the sound and prevents