Rotel DT-6000

DAC/CD Transport

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Rotel DT-6000

DAC/CD Transport

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Overview

The Rotel Diamond Series DT-6000 DAC Transport celebrates Rotel’s 60-Year history of delivering performance, passion, and value synonymous with the brand's Japanese heritage. The DT-6000 supports Coaxial, Optical, and PC-USB inputs as well as an integrated CD Player for the ultimate flexibility playing your favorite sources rendering digital audio with dynamic precision and authentic accuracy.

The DT-6000 has several digital inputs. You get Toslink, Coax, and PC inputs. The PC input supports high-resolution PCM audio (32-bit/384kHz) streams, unfolds and renders MQA and MQA Studio, and can also do DSD 1X, 2X, and 4X audio files. That is pretty darn flexible. We asked Rotel why they did not include a streaming platform and they gave us a very reasonable and interesting answer. They wanted this unit to be something that would stay current for many years and felt including a streamer, with the way that tech is changing, might not enable it to be current for a decade or more. With almost all streaming units having a digital output you can easily send their digital stream into the DT-6000 for much improved audio quality. And if you are into Roon, the DT-6000 is fully Roon tested and will show up in your list of audio sources inside Roon.

Rotel DT-6000 Rear Inputs

The transport on the DT-6000 worked flawlessly for us, loading and playing a physical disc very fast. Since this started out as what was supposed to be their best CD player ever, Rotel put a lot of effort into the CD transport. The CD mechanism is spring-loaded with damping materials designed to reduce any vibration during playback. They use a precision motor-driven optical laser system made to pick up every detail from your CDs.

The rear panel includes IR jacks and an RS232 connection for control systems, but the part we really like is the addition of the balanced audio connectors. With the entire audio path being fully balanced, it's great they offered balanced outputs to complement it.

We love it when manufacturers tell us which DAC they are using and the DT-6000 uses an ESS Sabre ES9028PRO 8-Channel DAC. As we said earlier, this was then custom configured with 4 dedicated, redundant channels to the left and right outputs. The entire signal path from the DAC to the analog outputs is a fully balanced differential circuit design using some of the very expensive capacitors they had specially designed for the Michi series of gear.

Hand loading CD into Rotel DT-6000

If you know about audio design, you are fully aware that the best circuit and DACs in the world will not perform to their best if the power supply is not up to the job. Rotel has always been known for their robust power supplies and as you might expect, developed a custom one for the DT-6000. It uses a low noise toroidal transformer they even custom-make at Rotel. This feeds independent analog and digital voltage regulators.

Even the internal circuit boards have isolation and electronic decoupling designs that are filtered down from the top-end Michi products. These reduced noise and distortion in both the analog and digital sections.

There is a lot to like about the features and technology inside the DT-6000. It seemed like a really great value to us even before we got to hear it. There is really nothing else we wish it had.

Details & Specs

The DT-6000’s critical Digital to Analog circuits utilizes an ESS Sabre 8-Channel ES9028PRO DAC dedicating 4 channels each to the Left and Right stereo outputs. The DACs multi-channel processing delivers unprecedented details with an ultra-low noise floor through fully differential circuits resulting in an immersive, expansive sound stage.

Dedicated power supplies feed all critical circuits driven by an in-house manufactured, low-emission shielded toroidal transformer with high efficiency, low ESR slit-foil smoothing capacitors delivering ripple-free current. Physical circuit board isolation techniques and electronic decoupling design methods result in lower residual noise and reduced distortion in the sensitive analog stages including the external DAC output filters.

The Coaxial and Optical inputs support PCM audio up to 24-bit/192kHz with the asynchronous PC-USB input rendering up to 32-bit/384kHz high-resolution music files. The PC-USB also supports MQA and DSD 4X and is certified Roon Tested for the highest compatibility with Roon software.

The smooth action tray loading CD player utilizes Rotel’s formidable 30 years of experience engineering and manufacturing award-winning disc spinners. The industrial design includes a spring-floating CD mechanism with damping materials to reduce mechanical noise and vibrations during playback. Precision motor controls and the optical laser pick-up extract every nuance and detail from CD collections both large and small.

Front panel controls and a back-lit IR remote provide intuitive operation of the unit with playback status, music file stream details, and CD Metadata shown on the 2-line display.

The RS232, 12V trigger, and external remote input ensure simplified integration with all popular control systems.

  • Total Harmonic Distortion + Noise
    • Coaxial/Optical Input: < 0.0007%
    • CD/PC-USB Input: < 0.0012%
  • Intermodulation Distortion: < 0.0012%
  • Frequency Response (0±0.5 dB)
    • 20 Hz - 20k Hz, +0, -0.15dB
    • 10 Hz - 70k Hz, +0, -3dB
  • Channel Balance: ± 0.5 dB
  • Channel Separation: > 115 dB @ 10k Hz
  • Signal to Noise Ratio: > 115 dB (IHF A-Weighted)
  • Dynamic Range: > 99 dB
  • Input Sensitivity: 0 dBfs / 75 ohms
  • Analog Output Level / Impedance (0 dBfs)
    • Unbalanced (RCA) 2.1 V / 10 ohms
    • Balanced (XLR) 4.3 V / 20 ohms
  • Digital to Analog Converters: ESS
  • Coaxial/Optical Digital Input
    • SPDIF LPCM (up to 24-bit / 192k Hz)
    • PC-USB USB Audio Class 2.0 (up to 32-bit / 384k Hz)* *Driver installation required
    • Support native DSD (up to 11.2M) and DoP
    • Support MQA and MQA Studio (up to 24-bit/ 384k Hz)
    • Roon Tested
  • Power Requirements (US): 120 V, 60 Hz
  • Power Consumption: 25 watts
  • Standby Power Consumption: < 0.5 watts
  • Dimensions (W x H x D)
    • 17 x 4 x 12 3/5 ins
    • 431 x 104 x 320 mm 
  • Front Panel Height: 2U / 3.5 ins (88.1 mm)
  • Weight (net): 17.88 lbs (8.11 kg)
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