Bryston BCD-1 manual

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    BCD -1 CD PL A YER OWNER’S MANU AL 2007-06-06[...]

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    IMPORT ANT SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS The lightning flash with arrowhead symbol within an equilateral triangle, is intended to alert the user to the presence of un- insulated “dangerous voltage “ within the product’s enclosure that may be of sufficient magnitude to constitute a risk of elec- tric shock to persons . The exclamation point within an eq[...]

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    GENERAL DESCRIPTION Bryston’ s BCD-1 is a Red Book CD/CD-R player featuring:  •fullydiscreteclass A outputampliers • 24 bit/192K over-sampling DAC • Both balanced and single ended audio outputs • three isolated digital outputs: T OSLINK (optical), AES/EBU and SPDIF • Software updates possible via RS232 jack • R[...]

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    _ + 3 G 2 1 XLR jack RIGHT LEFT BALANCED BALANCED SINGLE ENDED SINGLE ENDED TOSLINK SPDIF RS232 TRIGGER IN AC INPUT ANALOG OUTPUT DIGITAL OUTPUT AES/EBU Made in Canada by Peterborough, Ontario, Canada PUSH PUSH PUSH 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 _ + 3 G 2 1 XLR jack REAR P ANEL CONNECTIONS 7/9: BALANCED OUTPUT CONNECT ORS The BCD-1 is supplied with on[...]

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    1) If the BCD-1 is ON, place it in standby by pressing the POWER button either on the front panel or on the remote control. When the LED above the POWER button lights red, the BCD-1 is in standby . 2) Connect a suitable RS232 cable between your PC (sorry , but MAC’ s are not sup- ported at this time) and the BCD-1. In most cases (depending on you[...]

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    POWER button: T oggles power to the BCD-1 on and off. Note that the POWER button (both on the remote and on the BCD- 1’ s front panel) will not work when the External (Remote) T rigger has been enabled. V OLUME  /  : Increases / decreases the volume respectively . MUTE button: Mutes the audio outputs of the BCD-1 NUMERIC buttons: Usedin?[...]