Listening To Sacd, Compatibility With Recordable Media - T+A Sacd 1245 R Betriebsanleitung

Listening to SACD
It exist three types of SACD discs: single layer, double
layer and hybrid discs. The hybrid discs contain a
standard CD and a SACD layer.
The SACD layer should always contain the music in a
pure stereo format. Additionally it may contain the music
in multi channel format. Some rare discs however contain
only multi channel signals on the SACD layer. The
SACD 1245 R can play back all of these discs. Please
follow the instructions below.
Play back of Super Audio CD (SACD)
Stereo SACD
• The player will automatically select the stereo SACD
layer as the default. After reading the disc, the SACD
indicator will light up.
• Now the disc may be started by pressing the 
button.
SACDs containing a stereo and multi-channel area
• After loading and reading such a disc, the player will
automatically select the stereo SACD area as the
default. This is indicated by the SACD indicator.
• Start the disc by pressing the 
Note:
If you want to play back the multi-channel part of the disc,
press the   button (repeatedly) until you get the
 
indication ' SACD MCH SACD SACD SACD MCH MCH MCH '. If you now start the play back by
pressing the   button, you will hear the multi  
channel part of the disc in a 2-channel downmix version
(see also paragraph below).
MCH-SACD (multi-channel SACD)
• This device can play back pure multi-channel SACDs. It
will perform a stereo-downmix of the multi channel
recording. In this way nothing of the musical content of
the disc is lost when the multi-channel recording is
reproduced over a normal 2-channel amplifier and
loudspeaker stereo system.
• To play back a multi-channel SACD, wait until the disc
is read and recognised by the player. The SACD and
MCH indicators will light up. Now start the disc by
pressing the   button.
 

 
 button.
 
Play back of the CD layer of hybid SACD
discs
The SACD 1245 R can play back both of the SACD and
the CD layer of these discs. Switching between CD and
SACD layer is accomplished by pressing the 
button while the disc is stopped. After switching to the CD
layer, the "CD" indicator in the display will be lit.
Note:
During play back it is not possible to switch between CD
and SACD layers. First stop a playing disc before
switching layers.
Compatibility with recordable media
The SACD 1245 R can play back recordable and
rewritable discs (for details refer to the technical data
section of this manual).
Due to the vast number of different disc types, disc
manufacturers, disc recorders and software programs a
guarantee for compatibility
hardware / disc combination can not be given.
If compatibility problems occur we recommend to use a
different type of disc, a different recording device and / or
a different software.
40
  
with every software /