REAVON
Reavon Universal Disc Players
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e don’t see many new brands coming onto the market, so launching a new brand with a new range of disc players — particularly in this era of streaming — is unusual indeed. Reavon is a French company and is an offshoot of the consumer electronics company Groupe Archisoft.
Archisoft established Reavon with one over-arching goal: to build the best multi-purpose disc players available for use by discerning audiophiles and home theatre enthusiasts. No doubt the French company was aware of the pent-up demand for universal (multiformat) optical disc players following the departure of Oppo from this category.
Reavon currently has two Universal Disc Player models available:
Reavon UBR-X100 - $1,390 Theoretically this is Reavon’s budget model, but it is ‘budget’ in relative terms only. This is an extremely capable, wellbuilt piece of equipment. It plays Ultra HD Blu-ray, Blu-ray 3D, DVD, DVD-Audio, CDs and will play optical discs containing music and video files in a wide variety of popular formats, including FLAC, AIFF, DFF, DSF, JPG, TIFF, MKV and M2TS. It will also act as a streamer that is able to play external files via USB or DLNA.
Reavon UBR-X200 - $2,900 Taking the technology to another level with improved componentry, including upgraded DACs and an upgraded power supply, along with the addition of SACD playback, plus balanced and multi-channel outputs, the UBR-X200 is currently Reavon’s flagship model.
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