Listening To Sacd, Compatibility With Recordable Media - T+A SACD 1260 R User Manual

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 1260 R can play back all of these discs. Please
follow the instructions below.
Play back of Super Audio CD (SACD)
Stereo SACD or
SACDs containing a stereo and multi-channel area
• 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.
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.
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Play back of the CD layer of hybid SACD
discs
The SACD 1260 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 1260 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
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manufacturers, disc recorders and software programs a
guarantee
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.
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