Arcam FMJ CD37 - Manual (Page 7)

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Advanced operation
MODE (Display Mode)
Press MoDe on the remote control to cycle through
information about a currently playing disc.
Press
MoDe once to display the number and elapsed
time of the currently playing track. Press again to display
the number and remaining time of the currently playing
track. Press again to turn the scrolling text display on
and press again to return to displaying track number
and elapsed time.
For CDs with text (all SA-CDs are of this type), pressing
MoDe while the disc is loaded but not playing toggles
between a scrolling text display and displaying the total
number of tracks and the total playing time.
RPT (Repeat)
To repeat the entire disc or a pre-programmed selection
of tracks press rpt on the remote control.
To repeat a particular track, select that track and then
press rpt twice.
To cancel the repeat function press rpt a third time.
Programmed playback (CD Only)
This function is only available when a CD is loaded
allows up to 100 tracks from an audio disc to be
programmed to play in any order.
In normal playback mode (display does not show the
letter P) select the track you want to add to the program
list using the up and down keys. When the desired track
is shown press the Menu key to store the track at the end
of the program list. The display briefly shows “Stored”.
Select further tracks each time, followed by Menu to add
the track to the list. The same track can be added to the
list more than one time if required.
To play the programmed tracks press
setup to enter
Program playback. Press pLay or 4 on the remote to
start playback.
When in ‘Program Playback’ mode, the programme can
be reviewed using the 5 and 6 keys on the remote.
In ‘Program Playback’ mode, tracks can be removed
from the program when playback is stopped. Use the 5
and 6 keys on the remote to select the unwanted track
and then press Menu to remove the track. The display
briefly shows ‘deleted’. If the last track of the program is
deleted (i.e. the program list is empty) the display shows
briefly ‘All Deleted’, and the unit returns to ‘Normal
Playback’. The programme can be deleted in one step by
stopping playback and then pressing stop again.
A note on Super Audio CD
SA-CD are discs which share the 12cm format of
audio compact discs but they encode the audio
data in a different way from CD or DVD-Audio
discs. A carefully mastered SA-CD recording allows
an extended dynamic range and can avoid the
amplitude compression or digital clipping that is
present in some full-scale PCM signals.
SA-CD uses Direct Stream Digital (DSD) – a 1-bit
delta-sigma modulation at the very high sampling
rate of 2.8224 MHz. This is 64 times the sampling
rate used in Compact Disc Digital Audio (CDDA),
which specifies 44.1 kHz at a resolution of 16-bit
in Pulse Code Modulation (PCM) format. Because
the resolution of SA-CD is 1-bit, the bitrate for each
channel is only 4 times as large.
The three types of SACDs – Hybrid, Single-layer
and Dual-layer – are all playable on Arcam’s CD37.
Of course, the CD37 also plays conventional audio
CDs (CDDA) impeccably.
For further information, see:
www.sa-cd.net – this includes an expanding list
of available material on SACD and a useful FAQ
section.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SA-CD – a useful
technical overview, including explanations of
DSD (Direct Stream Digital) and PSP (Pit Signal
Processing).
AUDIO (Repeat A-B)
This button on the remote control enables you to repeat
any section of music within a track.
While a disc is playing, press the
auDio button at the
start of the section you wish to repeat. ‘Repeat A&’ is
shown on the display with the symbol ‘ A-- ’.
Press the button a second time when you reach the end
of the section you wish to repeat. ‘Repeat A-B’ is shown
on the display with the symbol ‘ A--B ’.
The selected loop repeats until you press < or / or 0
to terminate. The forward search button ( 8 ) moves
forward only within the selected loop. Pressing auDio
again cancels the Repeat A-B function and ‘Repeat Off’
is displayed in confirmation.
SUBT (Changing layers in an SA-CD)
Hybrid SA-CDs contain a conventional ‘CD layer’ and
a 4.7GB SA-CD layer – the ‘HD layer’. The much less
common Dual-layer SA-CDs contain two ‘HD layers’
but are not compatible with legacy CD players.
To switch layers, press
subt on the remote. ‘Layer
Change ’ is briefly displayed and the disc is reloaded in
the new mode.