Buconero, you are way off. The AMR CD 77 has discreet analog everything except for the DAC which is of course a chip.
The Phono stage is all discreet components and an impressive all NOS tube output stage. A chip in an device such as this can be used for many different non audio related duties such as powering the display.
I agree with Pladin the CD 77 is one of the finest sounding CD players on the planet and can be easily compared with much more expensive players for $20k and above, the CD 77 sounds like analog if the phono stage is as good AMR will have another true reference product on their hands.