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Contents
Figure 1: Controls and Connections
Figure 2: Remote Control RR-D98
Figure 3: Connections
About Rotel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
About the RCD-12 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Getting Started . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
AC Power and Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Output Connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
OPERATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
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Additional Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
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Troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
About Rotel
Our story began over 50 years ago. Over the decades, we have received
hundreds of awards for our products and satisfied hundreds of thousands
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of people who take their entertainment seriously - like you!
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Rotel was founded by a family whose passionate interest in music led them
to manufacture high-fidelity components of uncompromising quality. Through
the years, that passion has remained undiminished and the family goal of
providing exceptional value for audiophiles and music lovers, regardless
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of their budget, is shared by all Rotel employees.
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Rotel's engineers work as a close team, listening to, and fine tuning, each
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new product until it reaches their exacting musical standards. They are
free to choose components from around the world in order to make that
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product the best they can. You are likely to find capacitors from the United
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Kingdom and Germany, semiconductors from Japan or the United States,
while toroidal power transformers are manufactured in Rotel's own factory.
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We all have concerns about our environment. And, as more and more
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electronics are produced it is especially important for a manufacturer to do all
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it can to engineer products that have a minimum impact on the environment.
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At Rotel, we are proud to do our part. We have reduced the lead content
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in our products by using special lead-free ROHS solder and components.
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Our engineers continually strive to improve power supply efficiency without
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compromise to quality. When in standby mode Rotel products use minimal
power to meet global Standby Power Consumption requirements.
The Rotel factory is also doing their part to help the environment through
constant improvements to product assembly methods for a cleaner and
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greener manufacturing processes.
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All of us at Rotel thank you for buying this product. We are sure it will bring
you many years of enjoyment.
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About the RCD-12
Simply stated, the RCD-12 is designed to do one thing-deliver the most
detailed, nuanced sound from every disc. Whether it is a conventional CD,
or an MP3 or WMA encoded disc, the RCD-12 will faithfully reproduce all
that is recorded on the disc. While the RCD-12 was under development. The
design team went far beyond the usual measurable technical performance
characteristics. Listening panels spent hundreds of hours fine tuning the audio
performance, choosing the components that produced the best sound, that
would "release the emotion in the music". Whatever the artist and recording
engineers put on the disc, the RCD-12 will deliver.
That said, the RCD-12 does feature some impressive hardware. The digital-
to-analogue converter is a state of the art DAC from the world renowned
British manufacturer, Wolfson. This very high performance stereo DAC is
specifically designed for audio applications such as CD, DVD, and home
theatre systems. All this, combined with Rotel's Balanced Design, ensures
the RCD-12 will deliver the highest level of audio performance. When used
in a high-quality audio system, your Rotel CD player will provide years of
enjoyment.
RCD-12 Stereo Compact Disc Player