SCD-XA5400ES: The Super Audio CD player for the true music lover
For
those who want the ultimate sound quality from audio discs, the new ES
range features the SCD-XA5400ES Super Audio CD/CD player, designed to
deliver superlative audio quality from stereo and multi-channel
software.
This is Sony’s first Super Audio
CD player to allow the transfer of Super Audio CD’s native Direct
Stream Digital audio format over HDMI, and ensures a perfect transfer
to its matching AV receiver, the STR-DA5400ES via Sony’s
H.A.T.S., or High-quality digital Audio Transfer System. This allows
the AV receiver to control the flow of data from the player, and this,
in association with buffering in the AV receiver, ensures the smoothest
possible transfer between the two – and the best possible sound.
If
the player is used with other amplifiers or AV receivers it employs its
high-quality Super Audio CD conversion system, which uses the
equivalent of 12 separate digital-to-analogue converters, to output the
audio as stereo analogue, either on phono or balanced XLR connectors,
or as conventional multi-channel audio via HDMI.
This
is a player built to perform; as well as the remarkable H.A.T.S. system
it uses a super-rigid frame and beam chassis and utilises separate
R-Core power supply transformers for the audio and digital/control
sections.
And just in case you thought CD
had been forgotten, the SCD-XA5400ES plays those too, as well as
CD-R/RW discs. The designers have even used a twin-laser system to
ensure the machine plays both Super Audio CDs and CDs to the same
standard: there’s a dedicated laser for each kind of disc, ensuring it
is read as accurately as possible.
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