Marantz PMD325 manual Features, English, •Play of unfinalized CD-Rand CD-RWdiscs supported

3. FEATURES

ENGLISH

•Play of unfinalized CD-R and CD-RW discs supported

The PMD325 can play even partially once-written CD-R and CD-RW discs that could not be played by conventional CD players. Since unfinalized discs which have some recording time left can be played, even partially edited discs can be played.

•MP3 play and ID3 tag display supported

The PMD325 supports not only the play of CD-R and CD- RW discs recorded with MP3 files but also the ID3 tags which are the text information of MP3 files so that text giving the track information or artists’ names can be displayed. (Japanese characters cannot be displayed.)

•CD-TEXT displays supported

•Pitch control function

The PMD325 comes with a pitch control function that enables the play speed (pitch) to be varied in a -12% to +12% range. This is useful when practicing to play a musical instrument.

•Quick replay function

By means of a single-touch action, the quick replay function returns play to a position, which is a number of seconds (setting range: 1 to 30 seconds) that has been set, before the position of the track now playing. This enables you to return and listen again to the section a little before the position where the track is now playing.

•End monitor function

By means of a single-touch action, the end monitor function plays the end part of the track now playing for the duration (setting range: 1 to 30 seconds) which has been set. This makes it easy to check the end part of the track which is now being played.

•Auto cue function

This enables play to start automatically from the position where the sound begins.

•Manual cue function

By setting the play start position in advance, play can always be started at the preset position.

•End warning function

When the end of the track being played is approached, the end warning indicator starts flashing to signal that the end of the track now playing is near.

•Wide range of play modes

Among the many play modes featured by the PMD325 are single play (STOP, NEXT, RECUE), programmed play, repeat play (ALL, 1-track, A-B) and auto pause.

•External control interfaces

The PMD325 features RS-232C, parallel control I/O and remote I/O as external control interfaces.

•Timer play supported

•CS4396 high-performance D/A converter (made by Cirrus Logic)

High-linearity play is achieved by oversampling the PCM signals to 128fs inside the D/A converter and combining dynamic element matching (DEM) with multi-element switched capacitors.

•Digital and analog areas configured separately

The digital area consisting of the servo, decoder and microcomputer circuitry is mounted en bloc on the CD mechanism PCB away from the analog (audio circuitry) area.

This keeps out the pulsive noise generated from the digital area and yield a pure sound reproduction.

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