Arcam FMJ CD37 User Manual

CD37

HANDBOOK Compact Disc player

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ank you and congratulations for purchasing your Arcam FMJ CD player.

Contents

Arcam has been producing specialist audio products of remarkable quality for over three

decades and the CD37 – which plays both conventional audio CDs and Super Audio CDs – is

the latest in a long line of award winning HiFi equipment. e design of the FMJ range draws

upon all of Arcam’s experience as one of the UK’s most respected audio companies and is built to

give you years of trouble-free listening enjoyment.

safety guidelines.......................................e-2

Important safety instructions........................... E-2

Safety compliance ................................................ E-2

welcome......................................................e-3

welcome

installation .................................................e-4

Placing the unit ..................................................... E-4

Power......................................................................... E-4

Interconnect cables.............................................. E-4

is handbook has been designed to give you all the information you need to install, connect

and use the Arcam CD37 compact disc player. e CR90 remote control handset supplied with

this equipment is also described. Use the contents list shown on this page to guide you to the

section of interest.

operation....................................................e-6

Front panel operation......................................... E-6

Advanced operation............................................ E-7

MODE (Display Mode)......................................... E-7

Programming playback...................................... E-7

A note on Super Audio CD ................................ E-7

We hope that your FMJ compact disc player will give you years of trouble-free operation. In the

unlikely event of any fault, or if you simply require further information about Arcam products,

our network of dealers will be happy to help you. Further information can also be found on the

Arcam website at www.arcam.co.uk.

remote control...........................................e-8

The CR90 Universal remote controller.......... E-8

CD player commands.......................................... E-9

CD player panel – IR commands..................... E-9

e FMJ development team

speciﬁcations.......................................... e-10

Radio interference..............................................E-10

Laser radiation......................................................E-10

product guarantee ................................ e-11

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Arcam’s CD37 provides class-leading sound quality from compact discs.

e CD37 has a Delta-Sigma DAC (Digital-to-Analogue Converter)

with DSD (Direct Stream Digital) ﬁltering, allowing ﬁne details to be

reproduced with startling clarity from conventional CDs or Super Audio

CDs. e CR90 ‘universal’ remote control supplied with the CD37 is

simple to use and can control up to eight audio devices – such as an

amplifer, television or Personal Video Recorder.

installation

e high performance CD37 audio disc player is designed to truly bring

your music to life.

Placing the unit

Power

Interconnect cables

Place the CD player on a level, ﬁrm surface,

avoiding direct sunlight and sources of heat or

damp.

e CD player is supplied with a moulded mains plug

already ﬁtted to the lead. Check that the plug supplied

ﬁts your supply – should you require a new mains lead,

please contact your Arcam dealer.

We recommend the use of high-quality screened cables

that are designed for the particular application. Other

cables will have diﬀerent impedance characteristics

that will degrade the performance of your system (for

example, do not use cabling intended for video use to

carry audio signals). All cables should be kept as short

as is practically possible.

Do not place the CD player on top of an ampliﬁer

or other source of heat.

Do not place the CD player in an enclosed space

such as a bookcase or closed cabinet unless there

is good provision for ventilation. e CD player is

designed to run warm during normal operation.

If your mains supply voltage or mains plug is diﬀerent,

please contact your Arcam dealer immediately

Push the IEC plug end of the power cable into the

socket on the back of the CD player, making sure that it

is pushed in ﬁrmly. Plug the other end of the cable into

your mains socket and, if necessary, switch the socket

on.

It is good practice when connecting your equipment to

make sure that the mains power-supply cabling is kept

as far away as possible from your audio cables. Failure to

do so may result in unwanted noise in the audio signals.

Do not place any other component or item on

top of the CD player as this may obstruct airﬂow

around the unit, causing the CD player to run hot.

Make sure the remote-control receiver

(behind the FMJ badge on the front panel) is

unobstructed, or remote control will be impaired.

Do not place your record deck on top of this

unit. Record decks are very sensitive to the noise

generated by mains power supplies which will be

heard as a background ‘hum’ if the record deck is

too close.

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12V trigger input

is socket allows the CD37 to be switched on

remotely by an ampliﬁer (or another item of AV

equipment) with a 12V trig out function.

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Power inlet

Connect the correct

mains cable here.

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Voltage select

Remote in

Optical digital output

Analogue audio outputs

Ensure the voltage selected matches

is allows remote-control signals

to be received by the CD37 if

the remote sensor is covered

(or otherwise not ‘visible’ to the

remote-control).

Use this socket if you are using a

separate DAC or digital recorder with

an optical connection. Connect using a

suitable optical cable.

Connect these to your ampliﬁer’s CD (or other

line-level) input using suitable high quality

interconnect cables. Ensure that the leﬅ and

right audio outputs from the CD player are

connected to the same leﬅ and right inputs on

your ampliﬁer.

the local power supply.

See page 7 for more information.

e second set of sockets can be used to connect

to a second ampliﬁer set up for multi-room use.

Coaxial digital output

Use this socket if you are using a separate digital

to analogue converter (DAC) or digital recorder.

Connect to the DAC or recorder’s digital input

using a suitable 75Ω screened cable.

CAUTION: Never connect the digital output

socket to a conventional audio input.

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operation

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Front panel operation

ese functions can also be controlled by the CR90

remote control. (See pages 8–9.)

Play

Search (

)

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Press the front panel pLay button (or on the remote)

Press and hold to search backwards, or press and

Power

to play the CD. To restart from track 1, press stop and

hold to search forwards, for a particular passage

Press the front panel power button (or on the

then pLay.

within the currently playing track. If the player is in

‘PAUSE’ mode the search is made at high speed.

remote) to switch the CD player on and oﬀ. e CD37

initializes and (with no CD installed) displays:

Make sure your ampliﬁer’s input source selector is set

to ‘CD’.

Skip Track (

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Stop

To start a CD with a track other than the ﬁrst, press

Press the front panel stop button (or on the remote)

to stop the CD playing. e display shows the number of

tracks and the total playing time for the disc.

or on the remote to locate the desired track, then

press to play.

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To select another track during play, press or on the

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Pause

front panel or remote. e track is played automatically

aﬅer selection.

Load

Press pause (or on the remote) to pause the disc

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To install a CD, press LoaD (or on the remote). e CD

tray opens – it accepts 12cm and 8cm discs. Place the CD

in the tray with the label facing uppermost.

(interrupt play). Press pLay or pause to resume play

from the same point.

Shuﬄe play

Press ^LoaDagain (or or on the remote, or gently push

the tray in 5mm) to close the tray. e total number of

tracks and total playing time for the disc are displayed.

Press shuff on the remote to play tracks in random

order (ShuffleOnis brieﬂy displayed). Press shuff

again to restore sequential playing order (ShuffleOffis

brieﬂy displayed).

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e disc is now ready to play.

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A note on Super Audio CD

Advanced operation

SA-CD are discs which share the 12cm format of

audio compact discs but they encode the audio

data in a diﬀerent way from CD or DVD-Audio

discs. A carefully mastered SA-CD recording allows

an extended dynamic range and can avoid the

amplitude compression or digital clipping that is

present in some full-scale PCM signals.

MODE (Display Mode)

Programmed playback (CD Only)

AUDIO (Repeat A-B)

is button on the remote control enables you to repeat

any section of music within a track.

is function is only available when a CD is loaded

allows up to 100 tracks from an audio disc to be

programmed to play in any order.

Press MoDe on the remote control to cycle through

information about a currently playing disc.

While a disc is playing, press the ^auDiobutton at the

start of the section you wish to repeat. ‘Repeat A&’ is

shown on the display with the symbol ‘A--’.

Press ^MoDeonce to display the number and elapsed

time of the currently playing track. Press again to display

the number and remaining time of the currently playing

track. Press again to turn the scrolling text display on

and press again to return to displaying track number

and elapsed time.

In normal playback mode (display does not show the

letter P) select the track you want to add to the program

list using the up and down keys. When the desired track

is shown press the ^Menukey to store the track at the end

of the program list. e display brieﬂy shows “Stored”.

Select further tracks each time, followed by Menu to add

the track to the list. e same track can be added to the

list more than one time if required.

SA-CD uses Direct Stream Digital (DSD) – a 1-bit

delta-sigma modulation at the very high sampling

rate of 2.8224 MHz. is is 64 times the sampling

rate used in Compact Disc Digital Audio (CDDA),

which speciﬁes 44.1 kHz at a resolution of 16-bit

in Pulse Code Modulation (PCM) format. Because

the resolution of SA-CD is 1-bit, the bitrate for each

channel is only 4 times as large.

Press the button a second time when you reach the end

of the section you wish to repeat. ‘Repeat A-B’ is shown

on the display with the symbol ‘^A--B’.

e selected loop repeats until you press or or

to terminate. e forward search button ( ) moves

forward only within the selected loop. Pressing auDio

again cancels the Repeat A-B function and ‘Repeat Off’

is displayed in conﬁrmation.

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For CDs with text (all SA-CDs are of this type), pressing

MoDe while the disc is loaded but not playing toggles

between a scrolling text display and displaying the total

number of tracks and the total playing time.

To play the programmed tracks press ^setupto enter

Program playback. Press pLay or on the remote to

start playback.

RPT (Repeat)

To repeat the entire disc or a pre-programmed selection

of tracks press rpt on the remote control.

e three types of SACDs – Hybrid, Single-layer

and Dual-layer – are all playable on Arcam’s CD37.

Of course, the CD37 also plays conventional audio

CDs (CDDA) impeccably.

SUBT (Changing layers in an SA-CD)

When in ‘Program Playback’ mode, the programme can

Hybrid SA-CDs contain a conventional ‘CD layer’ and

a 4.7GB SA-CD layer – the ‘HD layer’. e much less

common Dual-layer SA-CDs contain two ‘HD layers’

but are not compatible with legacy CD players.

be reviewed using the and keys on the remote.

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In ‘Program Playback’ mode, tracks can be removed

from the program when playback is stopped. Use the

To repeat a particular track, select that track and then

press ^rpttwice.

and keys on the remote to select the unwanted track

For further information, see:

To cancel the repeat function press ^rpta third time.

To switch layers, press ^subton the remote. ‘Layer

Change’ is brieﬂy displayed and the disc is reloaded in

the new mode.

and then press Menu to remove the track. e display

brieﬂy shows ‘deleted’. If the last track of the program is

deleted (i.e. the program list is empty) the display shows

brieﬂy ‘All Deleted’, and the unit returns to ‘Normal

Playback’. e programme can be deleted in one step by

stopping playback and then pressing stop again.

www.sa-cd.net – this includes an expanding list

of available material on SACD and a useful FAQ

section.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SA-CD – a useful

technical overview, including explanations of

DSD (Direct Stream Digital) and PSP (Pit Signal

Processing).

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The CR90 Universal remote

controller

e CR90 is a sophisticated ‘universal’ remote control

that can control up to eight devices, it can also ‘learn’

functions and store macros. For detailed information on

these features please refer to the CR90 handbook.

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Inserting batteries into the

remote control

Select the source key ﬁrst

Remember to select a source key before pressing

command buttons – commands vary depending on the

source selected!

1. Open the battery compartment by pressing

the button on the back of the handset.

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To operate the CD37, press the ^CDsource button.

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SAT

DVD

AMP

TUN

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AUX

PVR

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2. Insert four ‘AAA’ batteries into the battery

compartment – two facing the top of the unit,

and two facing the end, as in the diagram.

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3. Lower the end cap onto the plastic locating

plate in the handset. is acts as a hinge, and

you can now push the end cap ﬁrmly into its

locked position with a click.

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CD player panel – IR commands

CD player commands

ese are the IR commands generated from the CD

player ‘page’ on the CR90 remote control, and accepted

by the CD37. e codes are useful if you wish to

programme another remote handset to control the

CD37.

Source Selects the ampliﬁer input:

keys

DVD

sat

DVD input

Satellite decoder input

AV (television sound) input

DAB/FM/AM tuner input

Ampliﬁer input

tun

aMp

auX

pVr

Key name

Decimal

20-0

Auxiliary line input

Personal Video Recorder input

CD input

20-1

20-2

20-3

0 to 9 e numeric keys allow direct access to

individual tracks on the disc. To select

a track, press the corresponding keypad

button. For tracks greater than 9, enter the

digits in sequence. For example, to play

track 15, press 1, then press 5.

20-4

20-5

20-6

20-7

20-8

20-9

20-11

20-18

20-28

20-29

20-32

Open/close disc tray

LoaD

MoDe

Disp

shuff

rpt

Play

pLay

pause

Pause playback

Stop playback

;

stop

Decrease (–) or increase (+) ampliﬁer

volume

20-33

‘prog’

Toggles the mute function of a compatible

ampliﬁer.

Press and release to skip back to the

beginning of the current/previous track.

20-41

20-45

20-48

20-50

LoaD

pause

Press and release to skip forwards to the

beginning of the next track.

20-52

Fast search backwards

pLay

20-53

20-54

20-59

20-64

20-65

20-67

stop

a-b

Fast search forwards

Disp

MoDe

shuff

Cycles through the front panel display’s

brightness options (oﬀ, dim, bright).

Cycles through the available display modes

(see page 7).

Used to enter a track number in a

programmed track list (see page 7).

Toggles random (‘shuﬄe’) track selection

on and oﬀ

'prog’

subt

store

Mute

VoL+

VoL–

16-13

16-16

16-17

auDio

A-B repeat function (see page 7).

subt

Toggle between selecting the HD- and

CD-layer of SACD disc.

setup

Toggles between Program and Normal play

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Digital to Analogue conversion

Laser pick-up

24-bit multilevel Delta-Sigma DAC

Continual improvement policy

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Arcam has a policy of continual improvement for its

products. is means that designs and speciﬁcations

are subject to change without notice.

Laser wavelength

780nm

Numerical aperture

Signal to noise ratio

Harmonic distortion (1kHz)

Frequency response ( 0.5dB)

Output level (0dB)

Output impedance

Minimum recommended load

Physical

0.45

speciﬁcations

109dB (20Hz–20kHz bandwidth)

0.002%

0.3Hz–20kHz

2.3Vrms

47Ω

5kΩ

Dimensions

W430 x D355 x H85mm

6.2kg nett/8.0kg packed

32VA maximum

Weight

Power consumption

Digital output connection

75Ω co-axial

optical TOSLINK

Supplied accessories

Mains lead

CR90 remote control

2 x AAA batteries

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NOTE: All speciﬁcation values are typical unless otherwise stated.

Radio interference

e CD37 compact disc player is a digital audio device

which has been designed to very high standards of

electromagnetic compatibility.

All CD players generate, and can radiate RF (radio

frequency) energy. In some cases this can cause

interference with FM and AM radio reception. If this is

the case, keep the CD player and its connecting cables as

far from the tuner and its aerials as possible. Connecting

the CD player and the tuner to diﬀerent mains sockets

can also help to reduce interference.

Laser radiation

If the CD37 compact disc player

is operated whilst the outer

casing is removed, invisible

laser radiation could cause eye

damage.

EC COUNTRIES – is products have been designed to

comply with EMC Directive 2004/108/EC.

USA – ese products comply with FCC Part 15

Class B.

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Worldwide Guarantee

is entitles you to have the unit repaired free of charge, during the ﬁrst two years

aﬅer purchase, at any authorised Arcam distributor provided that it was originally

purchased from an authorised Arcam dealer or distributor. e manufacturer can take

no responsibility for defects arising from accident, misuse, abuse, wear and tear, neglect

or through unauthorized adjustment and/or repair, neither can they accept responsibility

for damage or loss occurring during transit to or from the person claiming under the

guarantee.

product

guarantee

The warranty covers:

Parts and labour costs for two years from the purchase date. Aﬅer two years you must pay

for both parts and labour costs. e warranty does not cover transportation costs at any

time.

Claims under guarantee

is equipment should be packed in the original packing and returned to the dealer from

whom it was purchased, or failing this, directly to the Arcam distributor in the country of

residence.

It should be sent carriage prepaid by a reputable carrier – not by post. No responsibility

can be accepted for the unit whilst in transit to the dealer or distributor and customers are

therefore advised to insure the unit against loss or damage whilst in transit.

For further details contact Arcam at:

Arcam Customer Support Department,

Pembroke Avenue, Waterbeach, CAMBRIDGE, CB25 9QR, England

or via www.arcam.co.uk.

Problems?

If your Arcam dealer is unable to answer any query regarding this or any other Arcam

product please contact Arcam Customer Support at the above address and we will do our

best to help you.

On-line registration

You can register your product on-line at www.arcam.co.uk.

Correct disposal of this product

is marking indicates that this

product should not be disposed with

other household waste throughout

the EU.

To prevent possible harm to the

environment or human health from

uncontrolled waste disposal and to

conserve material resources, this

product should be recycled responsibly.

To dispose of your product, please use your local

return and collection systems or contact the retailer

where the product was purchased.

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