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CD Player Worth Discovering Award - stereoinedex.com
"Recommended" Award – Hi-Fi Choice Magazine
Five Stars - What Hi-Fi? Magazine
"Best Silver Disc Spinner at the Price"
The Musical Fidelity M3scd Compact Disc Player has been designed to deliver outstanding CD reproduction and to be a very high quality digital hub.
In addition to playing CDs, it has three digital inputs: coax, optical, and asynchronous USB. This makes it particularly useful for set-top boxes or TV sound improvement.
The technical performance of the M3scd is excellent, It has everything you would ever want in in an audio component, including very low distortion, extremely low jitter, excellent signal-to-noise ratio, extremely flat frequency response, exemplary linearity, and excellent channel separation. It provides excellent CD replay and superb performance with other digital sources.
Award-winning Performance
In a joint review of the Musical Fidelity M3scd CD player and M3sci integrated amp, England's What Hi-fi? magazine gives the duo its top rating of Five Stars, praising the components for their "clean, detailed, sophisticated sound, styling, build." The magazine calls them a "classy, midpriced combo with genuine appeal."
The M3scd won a CD Player Worth Discovering Award from stereoinedex.com, September 4, 2025. "Musical and authoritative… The M3scd is an evolution of Musical Fidelity’s well-regarded M3CD. With a new disc mechanism, a 24/192 DAC that doubles as an external digital converter, and a beefed-up power supply, this player feels built for the long haul. Its sound is rich, bold, and confident — a true musical performer."
Hi-Fi Choice Magazine gave the M3scd a "Recommended" Award, reporting, "This is an elegant way of doing things. The Musical Fidelity combo appoints its CD player to be the centre of attention, with full CD playback offered plus DAC functionality. Given that a CD player needs a DAC, then it makes sense to offer additional digital inputs on it, as is the case here with the M3scd. The result is something that is easy and intuitive to use."
"A Wide, Immersive Soundstage"
"The sonic performance of the M3scd is where it truly shines," notes theaudiotailor.com, January 27, 2025. "Its exemplary linearity ensures that every nuance in your music is reproduced with stunning accuracy. The excellent channel separation creates a wide, immersive soundstage that brings recordings to life."
"Don't be dissuaded by the fact that Musical Fidelity isn't especially renowned for Compact Disc, then," suggest David Price, stereonet.com, February 9, 2021. "It's crisp, well-etched and detailed, yet not overly analytical or forensic. To my ears at least, this is the best-balanced silver disc spinner at the price."
Unsurpassed Playability
The M3scd uses a top quality CD mechanism with unsurpassed playability. For best performance, Musical Fidelity advises caution with using cheap and/or computer type CD-R/RW disks for audio. To ensure optimum reliability and performance, home-generated CDs intended for playback should be recorded as CDDA AUDIO CDs (the unit does not playback MP3, WAV, encoded disks) on good quality household brand AUDIO type CD-R/RWs burned at a slower speed, such as 16x.
The Ins and Outs You Need
In addition to CD it has three digital inputs: coax, optical, and asynchronous USB. This makes it particularly useful for set top boxes and/or TV sound improvement. Music streamers and Blu-ray players love the M3scd. The technical performance is excellent. It has very low distortion, extremely low jitter, excellent signal-to-noise ratio, extremely flat frequency response, exemplary linearity, and excellent channel separation.
Outputs consist of one line level unbalanced analog stereo RCA out, one RCA coaxial digital out, and one Toslink optical digital out. There's also a trigger in and out for convenient integration with your other gear.
Highly Capable Stand-alone DAC
One reason that CDs sound so great is the M3scd's superior DAC. It uses 24-bit Delta-Sigma (bit stream) dual differential chipset with 8x over-sampling. And you can harness the musical power of the M3scd's circuitry with your other digital gear, because it also functions as a highly capable stand-alone DAC.
Immeasurably Low Jitter, Noise, and Distortion with All Sources
The M3scd's digital inputs allow the connection of external digital audio sources such as TV, streamers, and computers, which benefit from its internal high quality DAC circuits.
Inputs consist of one RCA coaxial connection SPDIF, 32-192kHz (16-24 bit stereo PCM), one Toslink optical connection 32-96kHz (16-24 bit stereo PCM), and one USB type ‘B’ connection with asynchronous data stream at up to 24-bit/96kHz.
Outputs consist of one line level RCA analog connection, one RCA coaxial connection (Digital SPDIF), and one Toslink optical connection (Digital SPDIF).
A trigger input and output provide convenient system integration.
Oversampling, Upsampling, and Digital Filtering
All connections use a top quality oversampling 24 bit 192 kHz upsampling digital-to-analog converter. The upsampling action moves the digital artefacts to well outside the audio band, allowing easy removal without detriment to the top end of the audio band.
The well-tuned proprietary filtering circuit gives immeasurably low jitter, noise and distortion artefacts, allowing astounding imaging, detail and transparency, to deliver all music types exactly as the artist originally intended.
Partners with M3/M3s and M6/M6s Series Products
The M3scd is designed to be partnered with present and future M3/M3s and M6/M6s series products. This combination yields one of the best high-fidelity systems available at any price. Used properly and carefully, it should give many years of outstanding musical reproduction.
For convenient armchair operation, a universal wireless remote control is included.
