Meridian
introduce the 500 Compact Disc Transport that combines major advances
in digital audio and engineering design to provide clear, pure and
natural sound
The
500 Compact Disc Transport incorporates
a precision engineered CD
turntable and drawer system, which
provides all the advantages of drawer
loading with the superior disc clamping
normally associated with top loading
players. It provides a precision digital
output which is re-clocked and uses
a very high power 75 ohms amplifier
for superlow jitter. In order to
improve the sound quality and disc
playability Meridian has updated
the design of the 500 to use a new
three beam laser CD mechanism. This
involves a new type of in-house software
that, amongst its many features,
adapts the player to the parameters
of each CD.
The
software is combined with radical proprietary
analogue processing system that “de jitters” the data coming from the
disc before it is decoded. The 500
is our best transport, ideal for Meridian
digital speakers or with the 565
Digital Surround Processor. Combined
with our 566 DAC, it’s the finest CD playback system Meridian offers to
get the sound of “being there”
Meridian has
eschewed the usual bought-in drive controller PCB in favour of its own
circuitry.
Decoding
of the signal lifted from CD is via Philips SAA7310, which handles error
correction as well as demodulation and subcode processing, and optical control
is provided by the TDA 8808/8909 servo electronics. From this a PCF2705
provides further digital processing from 12C to S/PDIF, before output to a high
power 75 Ω amplifier feeding the
co-axial output through a small toroidal transformer to improve the squareness
of the signal into the interconnect. A
high speed optical EIAJ "Toslink" output is also provided.
Specifications
Clock
accuracy: ±20 ppm.
Display: Eight
character display for track, time, and index.
Outputs
Digital:
Co-axial, 500mV p-p.
Optical: EIAJ.
AES/EBU: XLR
connector.
Communications: Two 5
pin 240 DIN sockets
Consumption: 20 VA
Finish: Black
textured enamel and glass.
Dimensions (H x W x D): 88 x 321 x 332 mm (3.46" x 12.64" x 13.07").
Weight: 6.4 kg (14 lbs).
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