Technical details
| MP3 playback |
Y |
| Channels quantity |
6 |
| Remote control type |
M5 |
| Disc loading type |
Tray disc loader |
| CD changer |
N |
Audio
| Frequency range |
10 - 41000 Hz |
| Total Harmonic Distortion (THD) |
0.0018% |
| Dynamic range |
110 dB |
| Bit rate |
24 |
Management features
| Handheld remote control |
Y |
M5, CD, CD-R/RW, SACD, MP3, 9.2kg, grey
<b>Super audio for all CDs</b>
The Super Audio Compact Disc offers a significant improvement in sonic performance when compared with a standard CD. SACD uses a fundamentally different approach to transferring the analog musical waveform into the digital domain for storage on the disc. This is called Direct Stream Digital, and is widely considered to be a fundamentally better approach to digital encoding. This requires very high speed processing that simply wasn’t available at the birth of the CD format. This high data rate process avoids the quantization errors inherent in the Pulse Code Modulation process used for the traditional CD and DVD. Extended high frequency response, enhanced detail and a more analog-like sound quality are often stated improvements of SACD over CD.
Many of us still have extensive CD collections, however, and luckily the M5 has sophisticated circuitry designed to also get the best possible sound quality from your existing CD recordings. In addition, the M5 includes an HDCD decoder which can increase the dynamic range of CD by 6dB with specially encoded and widely available CDs. CD-R and CD-RW recordable discs are fully supported, and even MP3 and WMA can be played on the M5 CD/SACD Player offering many hours of playback from a single disc.
The SACD format also offers the possibility of 5.1 surround sound playback, and the M5 is equipped to take full advantage of these exciting new multi-channel recordings. We have even included comprehensive bass management (redirection) for the 5.1 output. Several popular speaker configurations can be easily accessed from the front panel controls and navigated via the VFD display. A higher level of fine tuning is available via the Composite Video Output using the M5’s On-Screen-Display. This video output is also useful for managing MP3 playback. Since we expect most M5s to be used in music only systems, the video circuit can be switched off to afford the cleanest possible audio performance.
