Bryston BCD-1 user manual

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BCD-1
CD PLAYER
OWNER’S MANUAL
2007-06-06

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IMPORTANT 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 equilateral triangle is intended to alert the user to the presence of important operating and mainte- nance (servicing) instructions in the literature accomp

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GENERAL DESCRIPTION Bryston’s BCD-1 is a Red Book CD/CD-R player featuring: • fully discrete class A output amplifiers • 24 bit/192K over-sampling DAC • Both balanced and single ended audio outputs • three isolated digital outputs: TOSLINK (optical), AES/EBU and SPDIF • Software updates possible via RS232 jack • Remote hardwired on/off control (external trigger) • full function remote control in a machined aluminum enclosure with machined aluminum buttons, can be used to control the

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REAR PANEL CONNECTIONS Made in Canada by AC INPU T ANAL OG OUTPUT DIGIT AL OUTPUT PUS H PUSH PUS H P eterborough, Ontario, Canada XLR jack XLR jack RIGHT LEF T 2 1 2 1 TOSLINK SPDIF TRIGGER IN RS232 3 G 3 G BALANCED SINGLE ENDED BALANCED SINGLE ENDED AES/EBU 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 7/9: BALANCED OUTPUT CONNECTORS The BCD-1 is supplied with one pair of gold plated 3 pin male XLR jacks (pin 1 is ground, pin 2 is positive & pin 3 is nega - tive) which are driven by fully discrete active amplifi

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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 your computer) this cable will be a DB9-male to DB9-female straight through cable. 3) IF your computer does not contain an RS232 serial port, but do

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POWER button: Toggles 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) Trigger has been enabled. VOLUME  / : Increases / decreases the volume respectively. MUTE button: Mutes the audio outputs of the BCD-1 NUMERIC buttons: Used in conjunction with the PLA Y button to advance to and begin playing specific tracks (enter a one or two digit number and press PLAY). Also used in conjunction