Vitus Audio SCD-025 Mk2 CD Player

The ultimate digital product with the ultimate analogue sound!

When Vitus released the SCD-025 Mk2 they didn’t just take a mk1 model and perform a few tweaks here and there as is often the case with new versions of pre-existing models. They completely redesigned virtually the whole thing to ensure its performance could compete with and outperform the best of the best.

The remit with Mk2 was simply to make it as musical as possible. I’m pleased to report Vitus has massively delivered on this front, the SCD-025 Mk2 is one of the most musical, intimate and enjoyable source components I’ve ever had the pleasure of listening to and after the RI-101 the SCD-025 Mk2 is the most popular product sold in the Audio Therapy range!

With the Mk2 all of the audio boards and power supply were redesigned. The digital audio section has been taken to the extreme. To minimise jitter Vitus decided to use sample rate conversion with a dedicated DSP based module, this module is programmable and upgradeable so as newer standards develop this machine can be easily updated to stay at the forefront of digital technology.

By achieving a sample rate of 384KHz (instead of the more common 192KHz) the amount of bandwidth available increases, so a custom masterclock module was developed to fully support the sample rate conversion modules – this was an expensive way to do things, but when you hear it play music you’ll realise instantly why they did it this way!