CEC Who are they?

I wasn't sure how I'd noted they had an analog background but originally (in the 1950s), Chuo Denki manufactured turntable motors, and later (later in the 1950s) manaufactured turntables on an OEM basis.

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).

T Bone

It was the link to the Mutine web site that you provided which outlined CEC's background in analog.
(http://www.mutine.com/pages/cecen.html)

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)