Arcam FMJ CD37 manual English Advanced operation

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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.

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.

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).

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