Advanced Operation; Shuffle Play; A Note On Super Audio Cd - Arcam FMJ CD37 Manuel

advanced operation

Mode (display Mode)
Press on the remote control to cycle through
MoDe
information about a currently playing disc.
Press once to display the number and elapsed
MoDe
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
while the disc is loaded but not playing toggles
MoDe
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 on the remote control.
rpt
To repeat a particular track, select that track and then
press twice.
rpt
To cancel the repeat function press a third time.
rpt

Shuffle play

Press on the remote to play tracks in random
Shuff
order. The display briefly shows 'Shuffle On' , replaced
by the letter 'S' on the left-hand side of the display to
show that Shuffle play is active.
Press again to restore sequential playing order
Shuff
('Shuffle Off' is briefly displayed).
Programming playback (cd only)
This function, only available when a CD is loaded,
allows up to 100 tracks from an audio disc to be
programmed to play in any order.
aDDing traCKS
In 'Normal play' mode (i.e. the display does not show
the letter 'P'), select the track you want to add to the
program list using the and navigation keys
B C
on the remote. When the desired track is shown, press
to store the track at the end of the program list.
Menu
The display briefly shows 'Stored' .
Select further tracks followed by to add each new
Menu
track to the programme list. The same track can be
added to the list more than once if desired.
pLaying prograMMeD traCKS
To play the programmed tracks, press : 'Program
Setup
play' is briefly displayed. Press (or on the
pLay oK
remote) to start playback.
When in 'Program play' mode, the letter 'P' is displayed
on the left-hand side of the display, followed by the
number of tracks that have been programmed. When
playing a programmed sequence of tracks, the program
sequence number is displayed, not the disc track
number.
When in 'Program play' mode, you can review the
programme using the and keys on the
B C
remote. The key toggles between 'Program play'
Setup
mode and 'Normal play' mode, without deleting the
programme.
DeLeting traCKS froM a prograMMe
In 'Program play' mode, tracks can be removed from
the programme when playback is stopped.
Use the and navigation keys on the remote to
B C
select the unwanted track and press to remove
Menu
the track. The display briefly shows 'Deleted' . If the last
track of the programme is deleted (i.e. the programme
list is empty) 'All Deleted' is briefly displayed, and the
unit returns to 'Normal play' mode.
The whole programme can be deleted in one step by
stopping playback and then pressing / again, or
<
Stop
by ejecting the disc.
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 button at the
auDio
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
to terminate. The forward search button ( ) moves
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forward only within the selected loop. Pressing
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 on the remote. 'Layer
Subt
Change' is briefly displayed and the disc is reloaded in
the new mode.
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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
/ or 0
delta-sigma modulation at the very high sampling
rate of 2.8224 MHz. This is 64 times the sampling
auDio
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:
– this includes an expanding list
www.sa-cd.net
of available material on SACD and a useful FAQ
section.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SA-CD
technical overview, including explanations of
DSD (Direct Stream Digital) and PSP (Pit Signal
Processing).
– a useful