Luxman DP-07
The Luxman DP-07 is a CD transport built to work only with an outboard digital-to-analog converter. That makes it an odd one in Luxman's late-1980s digital lineup. It was shown at the Japan Audio Fair in late 1987, where HiFI-Stereo (December 1987, p.93) reported that the DP-07 required the matching DA-07 converter to produce sound. The report listed the transport at approximately $2,860.
Most of what is documented about the DP-07 comes down to its companion piece. The DA-07 was a big outboard unit, weighing 62 pounds and priced around $5,710 according to the same period report. Together the pair was a very serious investment at the time. The DP-07 itself appears to have been a transport-only design with no internal D/A conversion stage. That was a deliberate choice, and it put the DP-07 in the high end of Luxman's digital separates strategy.
Past its appearance at the 1987 Japan Audio Fair and its pairing with the DA-07, little else about the DP-07 turns up in the period press. The exact transport mechanism, the digital output specifications and the full production run are not recorded in the sources available to the Archive. The DP-07 is functionally incomplete without its matching DA-07 converter, so finding a working pair is a real challenge.
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