BCD-1 CD PLAYER OWNER’S MANUAL 2007-06-06
IMPORTANT SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS The lightning flash with arrowhead symbol within an equilateral triangle, is intended to alert the user to the presence of uninsulated “dangerous voltage “ within the product’s enclosure that may be of sufficient magnitude to constitute a risk of electric shock to persons. The exclamation point within an equilateral triangle is intended to alert the user to the presence of important operating and maintenance (servicing) instructions in the literature accompanying the product.
GENERAL DESCRIPTION Bryston’s BCD-1 is a Red Book CD/CD-R player featuring: • fully discrete class A output amplifiers • 24 bit/192K over-sampling DAC • Both balanced and single ended audio outputs • three isolated digital outputs: TOSLINK (optical), AES/EBU and SPDIF • Software updates possible via RS232 jack • Remote hardwired on/off control (external trigger) • full function remote control in a machined aluminum enclosure with machined aluminum buttons, can be used to control the volume of other Bryston
REAR PANEL CONNECTIONS Made in Canada by PUSH XLR jack XLR jack PUSH RIGHT 2 1 1 3 G 3 G DIGITAL OUTPUT PUSH LEFT TOSLINK AC INPUT Peterborough, Ontario, Canada SPDIF TRIGGER IN RS232 14 15 + _ 2 ANALOG OUTPUT + _ BALANCED 7 SINGLE ENDED BALANCED SINGLE ENDED 8 9 10 AES/EBU 11 12 13 16 7/9: BALANCED OUTPUT CONNECTORS The BCD-1 is supplied with one pair of gold plated 3 pin male XLR jacks (pin 1 is ground, pin 2 is positive & pin 3 is negative) which are driven by fully
1) If the BCD-1 is ON, place it in standby by pressing the POWER button either on the front panel or on the remote control. When the LED above the POWER button lights red, the BCD-1 is in standby. 2) Connect a suitable RS232 cable between your PC (sorry, but MAC’s are not supported at this time) and the BCD-1. In most cases (depending on your computer) this cable will be a DB9-male to DB9-female straight through cable.
POWER button: Toggles power to the BCD-1 on and off. Note that the POWER button (both on the remote and on the BCD1’s front panel) will not work when the External (Remote) Trigger has been enabled. VOLUME / : Increases / decreases the volume respectively. MUTE button: Mutes the audio outputs of the BCD-1 NUMERIC buttons: Used in conjunction with the PLAY button to advance to and begin playing specific tracks (enter a one or two digit number and press PLAY).
