NAD Master Series M5 SACD/CD Player

NAD Master Series M5 SACD/CD Player

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M5 CD/SACD Player

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 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 as being the main 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.

Specifications

Plays SACD, CD, CD-R, CD-RW

AES/EBU balanced digital out for PCM sources

Coax and TosLink PCM digital audio outputs

Separate 2 channel and 5.1 channel analogue outputs

Balanced 600 Ohm Stereo Outputs

HDCD, MP3, and WMA decoding

Bass Management for SACD

24 bit 192kHz DACs with DSD mode

NAD Pure Class A Discrete Gain Modules

Separate power supplies; switch mode for digital circuits, linear for audio circuits.

Composite Video Output (switchable On/Off)

RS-232 port

IR Input

12V Trigger Input

Detachable AC cord

M5 Remote Control