North Star Design SAPPHIRE Operating Manual

Manual is about: SACD/CD PLAYER

Summary of SAPPHIRE

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    Sapphire sacd/cd player operating manual north star design ® sapphire sacd/cd player.

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    Rev. 1.0 july 08.

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    Warning: to reduce the risk of fire or electric shock, do not expose this appliance to rain or moisture. The lightning flash with arrowhead symbol, within an equilateral triangle, is intended to alert the user to the presence of uninsulated “dangerous voltage” within the product’s enclosure that may...

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    Important safety instructions please read all instructions and precautions carefully and completely before operating your north star design ® sapphire sacd player. 1. Always disconnect your entire system from the ac mains before connecting or disconnecting any cables, or when cleaning any component....

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    Introduction welcome to the north star design “family” and congratulations on your purchase of our new sacd/cd player sapphire. With its combination of features, precision electronic circuitry and accurately machined chassis components throughout, your sapphire sacd player will offer you many years ...

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    Front & rear panel function controls before attempting any system interconnection, please familiarize yourself with the front and rear panel controls of the sapphire sacd player. The descriptions below refer to the numbers and letters associated with the features in the diagram above. Front panel 1 ...

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    7 remote sensor receiver 8 operate led indicator the operate led show the operating mode of your sacd player: glows blue when the sacd player is in operation mode. Off the sacd player is in stand-by. 9 stand-by led indicator the stand-by led show the operating mode of your sacd player: glows red whe...

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    18 unbalanced analogue output use this output to connect the sacd player to the input of a preamplifier or integrated amplifier using interconnect provided with rca connectors (not shipped with the equipment). 19 balanced analogue output use this output to connect the sacd player to the input of a p...

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    Remote control.

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    1 . Stby standby on/off 2 . 0-9 press these buttons to select a specific track on the disc. For track 10 and above, the second digit of the number must be pressed within one second. Then press play button to change rapidly. 3 . Audio when the player is in stop, with a sacd inside, press to change la...

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    Specifications channel separation better than 110db cd formats supported sacd stereo, cd, cd-r digital to analogue converter dual differential 24 bit dacs frequency response 0 hz – 2 0 khz (pcm) 0 hz – 39 khz (dsd) dynamic range > 1 00 db (pcm) > 1 3 0 db (dsd) maximum output (0dbfs) 3.66 v balanced...

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    Notes n o r t h s t a r d e s i g n north star design s.R.L. Via lenin, 132 – fraz. San martino ulmiano 56017 san giuliano terme (pi) italy phone: +39-050-859945 fax: +39-050-859166 e-mail: info@northstar.It web: www.Northstar.It.