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CEC = Consumer Electronics Corporation. CEC manufactures CEC brand and other brands see link to homepage in Germany CEC THE DRIVE | SINCE 1954 (cec-international.com) |
I have a Parasound CDP-2000 Ultra CD player which contains a CEC belt-drive transport and has been widely praised for its excellent, analog-like sound. I think it has superb sound (although the belt-drive transport does have its annoying idiosyncrasies: navigating around amongst tracks is slow and cumbersome). |
Try here for the Canadian distributors of CEC. |
A translation of various parts of the CEC website suggests that the company may have been a subsidiary or affiliate of Sanyo Electric well before Chuo Denki's audio business was transferred to Sanyo Optronics Ltd. (Sanyo Electric Co.'s optical drive division) in 1996. The audio business was transferred to Sanyo Mediatec in 1999 and was then made "independent" in 2000. It is not clear what "independent" means (it could be that it is a separate company with different owners than previously, or it could mean simply that they put a capital structure around it which was different than Sanyo Mediatec's - if I had to bet, I'd say the latter, and that the shareholder is still Sanyo). I took a look at it because for some reason I thought there had been an association with Kyocera at some point but I can find no reference anywhere that such was ever the case... |