User manual CLASSE AUDIO CDP 1.5

[. . . ] CLASSÉ AUDIO CDP-1. 5 CD PLAYER CDP-1. 5 OWNER'S MANUAL CLASSÉ DESIGN PHILOSOPHY 1. REPEATED LISTENING DESIGN SESSIONS: Fine tuning the sound by exchanging and mixing different parts (transistors, capacitors, wiring, PCB boards etc. ), and adjusting many specific operating voltages within proper engineering ranges, has allowed us to produce an overall sonic recipe giving the most natural harmonic realism of music typical of instruments in a live performance. UPGRADABLE SINGLE CIRCUIT DESIGNS: All Classé products share exactly the same circuit design philosophy. This means all amplifiers and all high level circuits benefit from the same design goals. [. . . ] The remote control contains all the basic functions found on the front panel (except the LOAD and POWER buttons) as well as all advanced programming features. POWER: Press this button to turn the unit ON or OFF. LOAD: Press this button once to open the disk tray. PREVIOUS( ): Pressed once during playback, the CDP-1. 5 will start playing the previous track. Pressing it sequentially will cause the CDP-1. 5 to go back one track each time it is pressed. This button is also used to select tracks to play and program into memory. NEXT( ): Each time this button is pressed, the CDP-1. 5 will advance one track i. e. press it twice to advance two tracks, three for three tracks, etc. If pressed during playback, the CDP-1. 5 resumes playing from the desired track. If pressed while stopped, the CDP-1. 5 will await further commands. PLAY/PAUSE: Press this button to start playback. Pressing it again will pause the music until it is pressed once more. FORWARD(») AND REVERSE(«) SEARCH: The CDP-1. 5 employs a convenient 2-speed search. These buttons allow you to quickly search through the disk in both directions. Press and hold down the desired SEARCH button. The time counter will approximately double in speed, and the track heard will be reduced in volume. Once the desired point is reached, release the SEARCH button, playback will resume. If the SEARCH button is held for more than 4 seconds, the CDP-1. 5 goes into a high-speed search mode, and the time counter advances very rapidly. During high-speed search, the volume is completely muted. 8 In addition to all the above functions, the remote handset of the CDP-1. 5 contains the following additional functions. NUMERIC KEYPAD (digits 0 through 9):This is a convenient alternative to the PREVIOUS and NEXT buttons. Pressing the desired track number on the numeric keypad is usually faster than the PREVIOUS and NEXT buttons. For example, if you just inserted a disk and wish to play track 8, pressing 8 followed by PLAY is easier than pressing the NEXT button eight times, and then PLAY. REPEAT: Repeats the whole disk, the programmed tracks or just the single track being heard. STORE: Stores selected tracks into memory for playback. [. . . ] It features an exceptionally wide transmission angle to the IR receiver on the CDP-1. 5, and is engineered to last an extremely long time. The CDP-1. 5 features an HDCD decoder that, in addition to allowing full HDCD decoding, functions as a state of the art 8X oversampling filter if the input data is not encoded in HDCD format. The CDP-1. 5 employs a high performance 24-bit digital-to-analog converter, which serves to decode both left and right channel information. The digital information is oversampled by the HDCD decoder to a rate that is 8 times higher than the original sampling frequency. Oversampling the digital data to such a high rate allows the analog filter following the DAC to have far fewer poles than would be otherwise required. [. . . ]