GT-CD1
GT-CD2
(1991 - 1994)

Statement CD players with a fairly limited production run but which sold very well nevertheless.
The technology inside is... well - each brand had its own kitchen recipe for digital-to-analogue- conversion, servo accuracy and more. Here, the digital filter works on 20bit at 8x oversampling ; the d/a chip itself is of the Bitstream / 1bit kind, followed by two I-PDM correction chips - a sort of time base corrector for audio. FET stages, big caps, large PCB tracks, etc - the works. 500k¥ and 24kg for the CD1, 3,5k¥ for the CD2 - impressive there, too. After all, GT did stand for Gigantic & Tremendous.

However, sharing among other things the same motor as Victor's XL-Z999EX (and variants) or Denon's DP-S1, the core of Yamaha's GT-CD1 and GT-CD2 was probably made by... Victor ? Yamaha ? At the very least, some exchanges of parts and knowledge took place from Victor to Yamaha.
Keeping in mind the proximity of Victor's ME-1000 ultimate monoblocks and Denon's well remembered POA-S1 -not to mention that all Micro Seiki motors were made by Victor for instance- the early to mid 1990s japanese high-end seems to have been party time for inter-brand technology lending, mending, sharing and borrowing !