The VRDS-701 was featured in a CD player group test on the YouTube channel CheapAudioman.
The VRDS-701 stood out for its superior sound quality and was considered to be in a different performance league.

"... TEAC far and away is the best CD player in this bunch. I mean it's not really even close. There is a level of instrument separation, imaging accuracy...I guess I would call it, vibrato, air, the scale of the recording."