Exposure 1010 CD Player

Documentation on the Exposure 1010 CD Player is thin. No production years or full technical specifications have been confirmed. Here is what the record shows. It was Exposure's entry-level CD player, introduced around 2012 as part of the 1010 series, which paired it with a matching amplifier. It sold new for £395 in the UK. It was built in Malaysia to a deliberately no-frills design - a steel box with an anodised aluminium fascia, made to offer a taste of high-end performance at a budget price.

The little technical detail that survives fits that approach. The 1010 used a custom-made toroidal transformer, a selected and matched Sony mechanism, and a surface-mounted 24-bit/192kHz DAC shared with Exposure's higher-priced 2020S2. Connections were spartan: a single pair of analogue outputs and one Toslink optical digital output. The display could be switched off for improved sound quality. Hi-Fi News (April 2012) found the frequency response smooth out to 21.2kHz with no peaking or excessive roll-off, and noted the player weighed 5kg.

Reception was positive, though modest in scope. One dealer described it as made to "simply play music as it was meant to sound," and Hi-Fi News said it held its head high during soundchecks. Exposure claimed some internal components were shared with its more expensive models. The 1010 eventually sold out at some dealers. Used prices in recent listings have ranged from about €699 in the Netherlands to RON 1,500 in Romania.

Known specs, such as they are: