Introduction, Reality reproduced Super Audio CD

Introduction

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Reality reproduced:

Super Audio CD

The future in digital sound reproduction is no longer limited to a closely simulating of reality. The new audio standard IS reality! The human ear is no longer capable of distinguishing audible reality from digital reproduction. At Philips the future starts today with the SACD 1000 Super Audio Compact Disc player. This Super Audio CD player combines superior sound quality with the possibility of playing almost all existing audio and video formats with a single player. Your precious CD collection retains its value!

The Super Audio standard is based on Direct Stream Digital (DSD) technology. This new direct-stream digital format comprises a 1-bit system that has a digital sampling frequency that is 64 times higher than that of conventional audio CD. The results are spectacular: a frequency response of over 50k Hz and a 120 dB dynamic range over the entire audible spectrum. Mixed with as many of the original frequencies as possible, the audio information audible for human ears sounds much more natural.

All audible frequencies are, after all, embedded in the frequency range as emitted by the sound source. A better reproduction does not exist! For the first time your ears will relive reality.

The next standard: hybrid disc

The Super Audio CD is the evolution of the CD that provides ultra-high-quality sound. Additional features, including multi-channel, can be offered. On the high density (HD) Super Audio CD you may have access to separate areas, containing two-channel stereo and multi- channel.

But that is not all! The hybrid version of the SACD guarantees backward compatibility with the installed base of CD and DVD players. In addition to the HD layer, the hybrid disc contains a standard density CD layer with conventional two-channel stereo CD audio information. The two layers are read from the same side of the disc. The HD layer is read by an DVD laser. The bottom reflective layer with conventional CD sound is read by the CD laser through the second, semi-transmissive HD layer.

SACD Disc Types	Dual-layer Disc	Hybrid-layer Disc

Single-layer Disc
HD layer	HD layer	CD layer	HD layer

SACD 1000: reality in sound...

and vision

The SACD 1000 will not only surprise you with its superior reproduction of almost all existing audio formats. Connected to your TV, your SACD 1000 presents VCD and DVD video information as perfect digital studio-quality images with truly 3-dimensional digital multi-channel audio. Story sequences can be screened from your own choice of camera angle. You can break down language barriers with sound tracks in as many as eight languages, plus - if available on disc - as many as 16 subtitling languages. Video becomes a new experience. That makes the SACD 1000 an essential component in a state-of-the-art audio-video system.

Super Audio CD

You will recognize Super Audio CDs by the logo. There are three types of Super Audio CDs: single-layer, dual- layer and hybrid discs. Each type may

contain two areas of recorded information: a High Quality Stereo area and a High Quality Multi-channel area.

-The single layer disc may contain both information areas.

-The dual layer disc may contain both information areas but a double amount of information can be stored on the disc thanks to the second layer.

-The hybrid disc may contain not only both information areas but also a second, standard CD layer, making it playable on standard CD players.

Recorded information may vary per area. This is indicated in the disc inlay. Areas can be selected separately before or during playback. When playing Super Audio CDs, the player can be operated via the keys on the player front and the remote control or via the On-Screen Display on your TV.

1 CD layer that plays on any of your existing CD players

High-Density layer containing:

2 - High-Quality DSD Stereo

3 - High-Quality DSD Multi-channel

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