C.E.C International

Founding in 1954 in Japan, CEC were originally known for their very fine turntables.

Things were to change in 1992 when they turned their engineering prowess to CD and developed the first ever fully belt drive CD Mechanism.

The benefits of this novel design are sonically immense, and are presumably in part thanks to the reduction in noise that going from direct drive to belt drive brings. It also allows the CD to spin on a precision made dedicated bearing whilst also coping with a high mass disc clamp.