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Playback Designs MPS-5 User Manual

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MPS-5
Music Playback System
USER MANUAL
Version 2.5

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  • Page 1 All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com MPS-5 Music Playback System USER MANUAL Version 2.5...
  • Page 2 All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com...

  • Page 3: Important Safety Instructions

    All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com MPS-5 User Manual IMPORTANT SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS  Read and follow these instructions and keep this manual in a safe place.  Do not use this apparatus near water.  Clean only with dry cloth.

  • Page 4: Information To The User

    Playback Designs will pay for return shipping charges (domestically) back to the owner when the product is sent to Playback Designs within the first 30 days after purchase and the fault can be confirmed by Playback Designs. Otherwise, owner will be responsible for all shipping charges to and from Playback Designs.

  • Page 5: Before Using The Product

    Warning: copy protected discs, DualDiscs and other discs that do not conform to the CD or SACD standard may not play correctly in this player. If you use such discs in this player, Playback Designs cannot be held responsible for any consequences or guarantee the quality of reproduction.
  • Page 6 Before connecting the player to the AC mains, please make sure that the rated voltage for the MPS-5 is set correctly as indicated on the rear panel. Operating the player at the wrong voltage will damage the unit. The voltage rating of the power supply cannot be...

  • Page 7: Front Panel Functions

    All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com MPS-5 User Manual FRONT PANEL FUNCTIONS Alphanumeric status display Time display during disc playback Buttons: Open / Close tray Play / Pause toggle, can also be used to close the tray and immediately start playback.

  • Page 8: Remote Control Unit

    All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com MPS-5 User Manual REMOTE CONTROL UNIT MUTE Mutes the analog outputs, but not the digital ones. Input Selections: DISC Selects and activates the drive system. Selects the AES input for conversion to analog.
  • Page 9 All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com MPS-5 User Manual REMOTE CONTROL UNIT (continued) LAYR This toggles the layer selection for SACD discs. In order to change the layer the player must be stopped. This has no effect for CD’s. In order to play...
  • Page 10 1. CONNECTING THE MPS-5 TO A PC VIA ITS INTERNAL USB INTERFACE Again, the MPS-5 is equipped with an internal USB port that only supports PCM in 16bits and 44.1/48kHz. In order to guarantee the best sonic performance of the MPS-5 when playing from other sources connected to other inputs or from its internal transport the USB port is disabled.
  • Page 11 In order for your computer to communicate with the MPS-5 and to exchange audio data custom driver software needs to be installed before you can connect it to the MPS-5. If your computer is a Mac running OSX 10.6.6 or later you don’t need any driver software as OSX already supports all PCM formats up to 384kHz sample rate.
  • Page 12 This will install the driver necessary to communicate with the Playback Designs products via USB. 4. Once your computer is properly configured, power on the MPS-5 and connect the USB cable that was included with the MPS-5 between USB-X and your computer. Since the USB-X interface is powered by your computer, but receives the clock signal from the MPS-5 you must always power the MPS-5 first before connecting the USB cable.
  • Page 13 MPS-5 User Manual 6. The computer will take a moment to enumerate the MPS-5 on its USB bus and notify you when it is installed successfully. Do not attempt to play anything before the computer tells you that the device is ready to use.
  • Page 14 PLINK input is selected. 4. If all the controls on your computer are set correctly then the front panel on the MPS-5 will indicate this by displaying ”BIT PERF” for 5 seconds at the end of the playback. If it doesn’t show this then at...
  • Page 15 1. The USB-X interface is powered by the computer via the USB cable, but the clock signal is coming from the MPS-5. So every time you turn off the MPS-5 you will have to unplug the USB cable from the computer and plug it back in once the MPS-5 is powered up again.

  • Page 16: Setup Menu

    This function is only programmable for the MPS-5. 6. PLINK Input format: The MPS-5 needs to know if the device you are connecting to its PLINK input is the optical USB-X interface (USB-XII) or any other device that supports the PLINK format.
  • Page 17 The MPS-5 can be configured for various different applications in multi channel setups and SACD MCH playback. As the MPS-5 is equipped with 2 internal analog outputs it can be combined with the Playback Designs companion stereo D/A converter (MPD-5) for external analog processing of the additional channel data from SACD MCH discs.

  • Page 18: External Clock

    In fact, the MPS-5 performs equally well with jittery sources as with higher quality ones. For this reason the MPS-5 does not require an external clock nor does it require to be set up as a clock master.
  • Page 19 CHANGING THE FUSE ON THE MPS-5 Inside the power connector on the rear panel of the MPS-5 is a fuse that protects the player from dangerous power surges. If the player fails to power up or no light on the front panel is lit then proceed as follows to change the fuse: 1.

  • Page 20: Appendix A: Serial Remote Control (Rs-232)

    Received commands are not stored in a stack and, therefore, need to be sent in intervals of at least 100ms to allow enough time for the MPS-5 to execute a command before receiving the next one.
  • Page 21 All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com MPS-5 User Manual Status info from MPS-5 The MPS-5 continuously sends back 7 Bytes terminated with a unique Sync Byte (xFF). Byte 0 Byte 1 Byte 6 Sync Byte 0 Bit1-0 0: CD...

  • Page 22: Appendix B: Upgrading The Software In Your Mps

    MPS-5 that may further enhance the sonic performance or add new features. As new releases become available you will be able to download it to the MPS-5 from a PC via a dedicated USB connection on the back of the unit. It will be distributed along with a software application...
  • Page 23 In case the programming has been interrupted accidentally, please follow the steps below: 1. Turn off power to the MPS-5 via its back panel switch. 2. Press and hold the Boot button on the back panel. 3. Turn power back on. Release the Boot button.

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