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Recommended Component 2024 – Stereophile
Best Stereo System Award 2022-2023 – EISA
Reviewers' Choice Award - soundstagehifi.com
Recommended Reference Component Award 2024 - soundstagehifi.com
Outstanding Product Award – Hi-fi News
"Rotel's New Player is the Way to Go!"
The Rotel Diamond Series DT-6000 DAC Transport celebrates Rotel's 60-Year history delivering performance, passion, and value synonymous with the brands Japanese heritage. The DT-6000 supports coaxial, optical, and PC-USB inputs. It also includes an integrated CD player for the ultimate flexibility playing your favorite sources, rendering digital audio with dynamic precision, authentic accuracy, and an immersive soundstage.
"Recommended Component" and EISA Honors
Stereophile honored the Rotel DT-6000 by awarding it the magazine's coveted Recommend Component status for 2024.
According to Stereophile, reviewer JA "noted that the Rotel's error correction playing CDs was superb. Overall, HR described the DT-6000 as a 'well-built, great-sounding, reasonably priced CD player.'"
The Diamond Series Rotel DT-6000 and matching RA-6000 integrated amp were jointly honored as the Best Stereo System for 2022-2023 by the European organization EISA, the Expert Imaging and Sound Association. The EISA Awards honor new products that combine the most advanced technology and desirable design features with class-leading performance.
"Recommended Reference Component"
The editors of soundstagehifi.com handed the DT-6000 its Recommended Reference Component Award in a March 15, 2024 posting. In an earlier review, Roger Kamo had written, "Rotel has packed a ton of performance into the DT-6000 and is offering it at a price that makes it an incredible bargain."
The editors went even further with their follow-up. "At the beginning of this month, in his review of the Magnetar UDP900 universal disc player, Roger lauded the DT-6000 again: 'If you were to ask me today what my favorite audiophile disc player is, I would have to say the Rotel Diamond Series DT‑6000.' This and the earlier accolades have now earned the DT‑6000 a Recommended Reference Component Award."
"It's Perfect – Its Execution Is So Flawless"
"There’s nothing here I can quibble with – it's perfect. Its execution is so flawless, in fact, that we’ve decided to make it our reference disc source in The Music Room’s main listening room, the Listening Lab," raves Duncan Taylor, The Music Room, August 2, 2023. "This is a reference player for the vast majority of us, and at its price there seems to me to be no sonic or functional equivalent."
"Absolutely Transparent for CD Playback"
"My first thoughts here were about the surprising correlation between advertised specifications, and my measured results. For almost every part, the DT-6000 performed according to specs, or a touch above," observes VintageFlanker, audiosciencereview.com, August 2, 2023.
"I really liked it. It is extremely well-built, it looks gorgeous, and it sounds good… absolutely transparent for CD playback.
Multi-Channel Processing Delivers Unprecedented Details
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 Custom-Designed Power Supplies
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.
Outstanding Product Award
The DT-6000 and RA-6000 snagged an Outstanding Product Award from England's Hi-fi News magazine.
"Anniversary products sometimes offer little more than a new colour or a lavish finish, but this is certainly not the case with Rotel's Diamond Series," notes Jamie Biesemans. VThe RA-6000 is a powerful, yet refined-sounding amplifier with all the trimmings, and it's accompanied by an equally good CD spinner with an excellent DAC. You might want to add a streamer, but otherwise this is a superb set which can drive just about everything."
"The DT-6000 will not only handle up to 384kHz/32-bit but also DSD256, so if you have stereo SACD rips or new DSD recordings in your arsenal, connecting your digital music source to Rotel's new 'player' is the way to go."
"A Highly Resolving Digital Do-It-All"
"Individually, the DT-6000 [CD player] is a flexible and highly resolving digital do-it-all with remarkable CD playback; the RA-6000 is a ballet-dancing beast, breaking zero sweats while man-handling the speakers like the artist intended. It blooms, it bites, but most importantly it bows down before the recorded music," observes Duncan Taylor, The Music Room, August 26, 2022.
"This is one of the best integrated amps I’ve ever heard (and I’ve heard hundreds), and it’s for sure one of the best CD players (again– Rotel’s thirty-second design) I’ve ever used, and they both bestow honor on their high-tech makers with the gift for longevity."
Precision Spring-Floating CD Mechanism
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.
Backlit Wireless Remote Control
Front panel controls and a back-lit IR wireless remote provide intuitive operation of the unit with playback status, music file stream details, and CD Metadata shown on the two-line front panel display. The RS232, 12V trigger and external remote input ensure simplified integration with all popular control systems. The DT-6000 is available in your choice of black or silver finish.
Rotel's Diamond Series
"The Diamond Series not only honors and pays tribute to the Rotel brand established in Tokyo Japan in 1961 by my great-uncle, but also honors the heritage of my family", said Peter Kao, Managing Director of Rotel. "It is my true honor to lead Rotel into the future and introduce these exceptional new models, celebrating this milestone and accomplishment for our company with the recognition from the EISA review board."
Showcasing Rotel at its best, the Diamond Series partners an integrated amplifier with CD player/ DAC. The RA-6000 incorporates technology from Rotel's high-end Michi models, boasting a thrilling blend of power, authority and clarity. Meanwhile the matching DT-6000 doesn't just bring refined CD playback, it features a superior 384kHz/32-bit digital to analog conversion stage that can be used with coaxial, optical and PC-USB digital sources to great sonic effect. Working together, Rotel's Diamond Series duo becomes a dynamic music system that will excite and delight the most discerning of music lovers.
