1021 Disc Player:

Advanced CD Player

“This is the most resolute player we’ve heard to date. In terms of fidelity to the
detail on the disc, it cannot be faulted. It is also incredibly well-built and will play
almost anything that the audiophile can get hold of. Source components don’t get
much better.”

“…the sound of the hi-rez files the Boulder could play was stunning: open, airy,
grain-free, with a sharply defined soundstage and an excellent sense of the
recorded acoustic. Keith Johnson's 24-bit/176.4kHz recording of Eiji Oue and the
Minnesota Orchestra performing Rachmaninoff's Symphonic Dances (HRx,
Reference HR96) sounded more robust than the original CD—simply more real,
as if the glass of the window between the listening room and the hall in which the
recording had been made had been removed.”

“This is the best digital I’ve ever heard. I’ve heard everything and this thing beats
everything else by far.”

When the 1021 was first unveiled at the 2008 Consumer Electronics Show in
Las Vegas, it was the conclusion of one of the largest undertakings in the
company’s history. It was also the first complete source component from
Boulder Amplifiers. The development cycle lasted a painstaking two years
in which the entire digital audio playback methodology was examined
and reconsidered. The resulting 1021 completely redefined the limits of
what a digital player could be. In its short lifetime it has earned over-thetop
accolades by countless dealers, reviewers and other manufacturers
from around the world.

The 1021 boasts the first truly interactive display in a disc player and
countless breakthroughs in digital circuitry and software, including
Boulder’s own jitter eliminating Precise Interval Clocking System, research
into new D/A conversion technology, floating-point DSP mathematics and
a vastly superior data retrieval disc mechanism system. These advances
are all successfully integrated to produce a truly revelatory listening
experience.

But the most innovative aspect of the 1021 Disc Player is that in order to
make music it doesn’t need a disc at all: When connected to a computer
network, the 1021 can decode and play digital music files streamed from
a media server or computer anywhere in the home—with absolutely no
loss of realism. FLAC, WAV, MP3, ALAC, OGG, AIFF, it’s all covered. Ultra-high
resolution music file playback up to 32-bits or 192 kHz from either a
disc or streaming is simply icing on the cake.

The 1021 is a stunning example of just how far digital sound can be taken
when approached from the unique point of view that perfectly executing
the engineering is the only way to execute the engineering.