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Operating the XMC-1
If your player only supports converting DSD content to PCM, then the XMC-1 will treat it as it
would any other PCM digital audio input. If you require bass management, or any other features
not available with a DSD signal input, then you should configure your player to send its output to
the XMC-1 in PCM format when playing SACDs.
Note: To play digital audio from an sACD, you MUsT use an hDMI connection. The copy
protection present on all sACD discs (including the sACD layer of hybrid discs) restricts the
formats in which players are legally allowed to provide an audio output when playing them.
When playing an sACD disc, players are allowed to provide analog audio (if they have analog
outputs), and they are allowed to provide a digital audio output over an hDMI connection.
They are NoT allowed to provide digital audio from other standard types of digital audio
outputs (like Coax s/pDIf or Toslink). When playing an sACD disc, the player will mute all
digital outputs oThER ThAN hDMI.
(If you connect only the Coax digital output of your universal disc player to the appropriate
input on your XMC-1, you will be able to use that connection to play CDs, and to play the CD
layer on hybrid sACDs, but you will get silence if you attempt to play an sACD, or the sACD layer
of a hybrid disc, through that output. some players may provide a lower quality digital audio
output from their non-hDMI outputs, and some players will play a few seconds of music from
those outputs before the copy protection mutes them, but the only output you can use to play
full quality digital audio from an sACD disc is hDMI.)
Using the XMC-1 Tuner
The XMC-1 includes a high-quality AM/FM tuner, which can play all standard content from
terrestrial radio stations. The XMC-1's tuner plays standard FM broadcasts (but not "digital" or
"HD" radio broadcasts).
The XMC-1's display will show station or program identification information that is received via
the RBDS data system used by many FM stations.
Note: The Name field, which can be configured for each station that is entered as a preset, is
manually entered by the user, and is NoT derived from the RBDs information.
Operating the XMC-1's Tuner is slightly different depending on whether you're using the front
panel controls or the remote control.
From the front panel: Pressing the Tuner direct input button will select the Tuner as the active
input. To choose or configure a station, or set other Tuner parameters, use the Menu button to
bring up the Menu, use the up and down arrows to move to the Tuner Menu, and then use the up,
down, left, and right buttons to choose a station or enter other information.
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