That's encouraging - I have an old 2002 Arcam FMJ DV27 that's in mint condition, which I wanted to use just as a disc transport for my pre-ordered M-DAC. It's a bit behind the times as a DVD player, but is still a beautiful piece of kit with a rock-solid disc transport.Hi Sergiox,
Any Transport that can be Clock-Locked to the MDAC - Old Arcams, Cambridge Audio CDT (Diskmagic), Deltec / DPA.
But these will be hard to find (working) these days, although I understand that DPA will add a "Clock-Lock" board to most CD players for GBP250... But I'm only going by what I hear via the Internet...
Otherwise, any transport that passes MDAC's Bit Perfect test.
We will have a matching "Transport device" within the next 6 months...
John
Thanks for your patience JohnHI PhilCTTE,
With the addition of the MDAC's upgrade PSU (with AV Bypass), I dont see why you could not use the MDAC in your AV System.
With the PSU/AV bypass - you AV system should work exactly as is does now - but with the advantage of higher quality audio in "Two Channel Stereo" Mode.
John
That's encouraging - I have an old 2002 Arcam FMJ DV27 that's in mint condition, which I wanted to use just as a disc transport for my pre-ordered M-DAC. It's a bit behind the times as a DVD player, but is still a beautiful piece of kit with a rock-solid disc transport.
John - do you know if this particular model has the ability to be clock-locked to the M-DAC? If so through which output - optical or coax?
PS: Can't wait for my M-DAC now!
Thanks for your patience John
Just re-reading post 30#
"No the MDAC output will be directly Relay switched - so no extra active electronics - just connected to the MDAC's XLR outputs - then switched by relay to the "XLR / RCA" on the PSU "Bypass" outputs. Clean simple signal path. If you don’t need to use the PSU bypass function, then you would just connect the MDAC directly to your Power-Amps as usual.
Obviously the Single-end "Bypass" input is "actively" converted to Balance outputs / Buffered RCA outputs."
So would this infer that 2 channels from AV processor and 2 channels from MDAC switched via relay ?
The Marantz power amp requires 4 inputs in order to bi-wire my speakers. There's a confugration switch in the processor to duplicate the L to SBL and R to SBR. So I'd require a 4way bypass. I could unswitch the bi-amp option but would still require the 2 to output to 4 for the power amp.
I'm sure I'll get huge gains which ever way I implement the MDAC even if its only via 7.1 ch av bypass input on processor.
Hi Steven Toy,
The Transport will be the same size as the MDAC,
John
What sources do you want to have play through the power amp? Is it just the MDAC, or do you also want multi-channel video from your processor or other sources?
You could use the MDAC to drive the Marantz power amp directly. You just need some cables that split each channel into two, one for each input on the power amp.
Alternatively, if your processor has a stereo input, you could feed the MDAC into that.
The more complex setup is where you have both processor and MDAC connected directly into the power amp via a switch. The upcoming MDAC power supply will include that switch for you, but only for a stereo pair.
haha yes obviously a term I see to often on some of the other threads.
Not sure I'll be able to use the digital pre-amp of either DQ or MDAC in my Marantz AV setup , as I'm bi-amping. It uses FL, SBL and FR, SBR output from the processor to achieve this. Might have to get something built in order to split 2 channel into 4
I was planning to try routing the digital signal from my DVD and Blu Ray players via the Mdac and on to the Processor to see if the re-clocking gave any improvement.
As I route the front outputs from the processor to the pre amp and then on to the power amp I cant see that I will be able to use the MDac pre amp feature. The analogue bypass ( on the PSU) sounded interesting but I dont think it going to work in this set up. I would need to tell the Mdac which digital signal to pass through then play the analogue pass through. Guess it would need something like play and record features some pre amps have. It would be great if there was a way
Hi John,
Good to meet you at the show on Saturday.
Can you or Dominik give me some info, a few months ago Dominik gave me the following IR codes for the CDQ:
VIDEO sys 5, cmd 63
USB sys 20, cmd 101
These work fine, thanks
Can you let me know what the codes are for Volume up, Volume Down and Mute.
Will these codes also be the same for the DQ? If not can i have the above for that as well.
Also I have tried using the IR input on the back of the CDQ but this does not seem to work?
Thanks
Richard
Hi John,
Can I tease some more information from your tease about the transport?! Will this new device have an Ethernet connection to enable it to stream music files?
Best, Duncan
John,
Do you expect the new Audiolab stock to hit the colonies around the same time as it becomes available in the UK?
Joe
Hi Richard,
Very good to meet you and your dearest Wife at the show I'll bring Bobby and Co. next time.
As far as I'm aware (and I could be mistaken), there is no standard for the RC connection - so we have our own:-
Open Collector - Inverted Logic
Sleeve is Ground
Tip is Signel
No Power
Not sure if this helps, but we designed the RC loop really for our own Lakewest / Peachtree products - thus the Audiolab follows.
I'll ask Dom to post the full RC Code list
John
Hi Richard,
Not much info about the Electrical interface of the GC unit, but if you send me your unit I can probe it + modify it to work with our RC interface loop,
John
Hi John, if you get a moment can you PM some contact details so that we can organise your visit around Christmastime (I told my wife about the dogs and she was thrilled and wants to know whether she can take them out for a walk with our sons and leave us 'sad hifi types' to it (!)). I got my CDQ last Friday and very fine it is indeed, a quality product indeed (even if I can't read the display during the day...)