Cary Audio Design CD 306 SACD owner manual Welcome, Product Overview

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PRODUCT OVERVIEW

Following the tremendous success of the 306 line of CD players, Cary Audio Design’s new CD 306 SACD Professional Version includes the latest in SACD, HDCD and CD playback technology. The new CD 306 SACD Professional Version features a new servo board design with internal components tested to 105° C. The PMD-200 filter has now been replaced with a high quality Burr Brown filter chipset. HDCD decoding is accomplished with the absolute latest software available. Larger, multiple power transformers along with higher current regulators add up to stronger, higher current regulated power supplies. The internal copper chassis along with a new vented top cover add strength, durability and incredible transport shielding to the CD 306 SACD Professional Version. For even greater resolution when playing back SACD’s, the internal word clock frequency has been raised from 11.2896 MHz to 22.5792 MHz.

Completing the list is a new aluminum loader tray that adds elegance and greater disc handling care. The new CD 306 SACD Professional Version continues on with 8 Burr Brown 1792u DAC chips running in a true balanced parallel, extremely low jitter digital to analog converter. A word about jitter is in order. The master clock jitter is below measurable levels, utilizing a digital buffer circuit. In other words the data stream read from the disk is stored in RAM buffer circuits and then released to the D/A conversion.

Another very important feature of the new Pro version CD 306/SACD is that SACD playback stays in pure DSD format all the way to the analog outputs. It is not converted to PCM in the CD 306 SACD player. The digital to analog conversion section within the new CD 306 SACD Professional Version may still be used as a stand alone DAC with three separate digital inputs available that are selectable on the front panel.

The CD 306 SACD Pro will also upsample a Redbook CD disk from 44.1 KHz to 96, 192, 384, 512 or 768 kHz to release all the information available from your disc library. This is the fourth generation of the Cary Audio Design CD-306 series of CD players. The Cary simply gets the music across to you in a well-balanced, grab you by the throat, viscerally captivating way. Nothing stands out as being either too much or not enough. All without a hint of stridency, glare, grit, or other digital nasties, of which, are easily misinterpreted as detail and resolution. The Cary CD 306 SACD Pro version is truly the 'tour de force' CD and SACD player.

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