BCD-1
CD PLAYER
OWNER’S MANUAL
2007-06-06
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 products as well as the BCD-1 (see Programming the Remote Control on page 3 for more
information)
POWER CONSIDERATIONS
In general, if your BCD-1 disc player has a three prong grounded line cord you can avoid local ground loops which could cause hum or
noise in the system by plugging its line cord into the same wall outlet next to the disc player and power amp.
FUSES & ELECTRICAL SAFETY
The BCD-1 contains a single fuse located inside the unit. IF it should become necessary to replace this fuse we recommend that you
seek the assistance of qualified service personnel. If you decide to change the fuse yourself we advise the following:
1st) Turn off the BCD-1
2nd) Disconnect ALL cables from the rear of the BCD-1, especially the power cord.
3rd) Remove the 10 screws securing the top cover to remove the top cover panel
4th) Locate the 5x20mm glass fuse on the CD1-PM circuit board (near the IEC power inlet) of the BCD-1. Replace a blown
fuse only with the same type and value of fuse. All fuses are rated 250V
For 100 volt models fuse value is T 630mA L
For 230 volt models fuse value is T 250mA L
For 120 volt models fuse value is T 500mA L
For 240 volt models fuse value is T 250mA L
5th) Replace the top panel and all 10 screws and reconnect all necessary cables
REMOTE ON/OFF CONTROL (External Trigger)
The BCD-1 can be turned ON and OFF remotely using a DC control voltage (between 3 and 12 VDC) applied to the TRIGGER inputs lo-
cated on the rear panel. To enable this feature the BCD-1 must be programmed via the infra-red (IR) remote control using code 241.
See PROGRAMING THE BCD-1 on page 3 for more information.
FRONT PANEL FEATURES & CONTROLS:
1: ALPHA-NUMERIC DISPLAY (2 lines of 16 characters). When this display is lit, the unit is ON.
2: INFRA-RED SENSOR for remote control.
3: STANDBY LED INDICATOR: When lit red the unit is on standby. If neither this LED nor the alpha-numeric display is illumi-
nated, the then there is no power entering the unit or the internal fuse is blown.
4: OPEN/CLOSE BUTTON: Push once to open disc drawer, push again to close.
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2
3
BCD-1 CD Player
PREV
NEXT
STOP
PAUSE
PLAY
POWER
OPEN/CLOSE
5: MAIN OPERATING CONTROLS:
PREVIOUS:
NEXT:
Move to the previous track.
Move to the next track.
STOP:
Stop playing disc. Pressing “play” again will return to the beginning of the first track.
PAUSE:
PLAY:
Stop playing disc while retaining the current position. Press Pause again to resume play.
Play the disc. Pressing Play when the disc is already playing will cause the BCD-1 to replay the disc from the
beginning of the first track.
6: POWER ON/OFF BUTTON. Toggles the power on and off. This button will not function if the External Trigger function has
been activated using code 241. See “TRIGGER IN Socket” on page 2 and “Programming the BCD-1”
on page 3 for more information
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REAR PANEL CONNECTIONS
Made in Canada by
AC INPUT
ANALOG OUTPUT
PUSH
DIGITAL OUTPUT
PUSH
PUSH
Peterborough, Ontario, Canada
XLR jack
RIGHT
LEFT
2
1
TOSLINK
SPDIF
TRIGGER IN
RS232
+
3
G
_
SINGLE ENDED
SINGLE ENDED
BALANCED
BALANCED
AES/EBU
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9
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14
15
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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 nega-
tive) which are driven by fully discrete active amplifier circuitry providing a buffered balanced output signal.
8/10: SINGLE-ENDED OUTPUT CONNECTORS
The BCD-1 is supplied with one pair of gold plated RCA (phono) jacks providing a buffered, single ended output signal driven
by fully discrete amplifier stages.
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TOSLINK optical connector providing fully isolated digital bitstream output conforming to EIAJ optical interface standard.
SPDIF (Sony/Philips Digital InterFace) digital bitstream output connector (gold plated RCA or phono jack)
AES/EBU digital bitstream output connector (gold plated 3 pin male XLR jack) conforming to AES3 standard.
TRIGGER IN socket. This two pin socket mates with the CO110A-11102 bare-wire terminal block connector supplied
with your BCD-1. Supplying a DC control voltage between 3 and 12 volts (at greater than or equal to approximately 3mA)
will allow you to remotely power your BCD-1 on or off. When the External Trigger operation is enabled the presence of an
appropriate control voltage will cause the BCD-1 to be powered up. Withdrawing the control voltage will turn the BCD-1 off
(i.e. it will return to standby mode).
To enable the External Trigger operation:
1st: Place the BCD-1 in standby. The POWER button on either the front panel
of the BCD-1 or on the remote control can be used to do this. The LED on
the front panel, above the POWER button, will light red when the unit is
in standby mode
2nd: On the remote control, press CODE momentarily. The red LED on the
remote control will light.
3rd: While the red LED is still lit, press 2 4 1 on the remote control. When
entered correctly the red LED will flash twice and then extinguish. The
alpha-numeric display on the front of the BCD-1 will display one of two
messages. IF the External Trigger operation has been invoked the display
will read “Ext Trigger Entered”. If the unit was already in External Trig-
ger mode, the display will read “Ext Trigger Disabled” indicating that the
BCD-1 is no longer in External Trigger mode and that the front panel and
remote control POWER buttons will now operate again and that the Trig-
ger In connector has been deactivated. Be sure to point the remote control at the BCD-1 while doing this and ensure
that there is line of sight.
4th: To toggle the External Trigger mode on or off just repeat steps 1 through 3 above. If the unit is in External Trigger
mode, remove the DC control voltage to place the unit in standby mode before beginning.
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RS232 port. For uploading new software into the BCD-1. Connects to an RS232 serial port on a computer capable of run-
ning a Windows executable program.
BRYSTON BCD-1 CD PLAYER FIRMWARE UPDATES
BCD-1 firmware updates, when available, will be downloadable from www.bryston.ca in the Technical Information section
(http://www.bryston.ca/BrystonSite05/BrystonDocs.html). Firmware update files will be archived files with a *.ZIP file
extension. These *.zip files will contain both an executable (*.exe) file and instructions in a PDF file. The executable file is
a program which, when executed on your PC, will search for available serial ports on your computer and then search for
the BCD-1 CD player before uploading and automatically installing the new firmware in your BCD-1. We supply this program
as an archive (ZIP) file because most computer systems impose security against downloading executable (exe) files. Once
downloaded the EXE file must be un-archived or extracted from the ZIP file. Most computers contain an application to
extract files from ZIP files but if your computer does not, there are many free or trial version of suitable programs available
over the internet, such as WinZIP or WinRAR.
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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 sup-
ported 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.
3) IF your computer does not contain an RS232 serial port, but does contain a USB
port, there are modestly priced USB to RS232 serial port adaptors available.
4) Once the executable file (*.exe) has been extracted from the ZIP file, simply double
click on it to execute.
5) Upon execution the 1st dialog box at the right will be displayed. Click on OK and the
program will search for the BCD-1’s serial port via any available serial port on your
computer.
6) When the BCD-1’s serial port has been found, the dialog box will indicate this by dis-
playing the message “BDC1 found on ComX”. Click on UPDATE to initiate the update
procedure.
7) When completed and the final dialog box is displayed, click on EXIT to finish.
N.B. In some cases it may be necessary to obtain a newer version of the Visual Basic con-
trol MSCOMM32.OCX. Contact Microsoft if you see warnings or cautions concerning this
control.
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IEC Power Inlet. Use only approved IEC-320 power cords with C13 type connectors to
mate with the BCD-1’s IEC-320-C14 power inlet.
IR REMOTE CONTROL
CODE button:
Programming the BCD-1:
CODE
POWER
Display Brightness: To adjust the brightness of the alpha-numeric display:
1st) Press the CODE button momentarily until the red LED is continuously lit.
2nd) Enter the code 240. The word “BRIGHTNESS” will be shown on the bottom line of the alpha-numeric
display.
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4
2
5
3
6
VOLUME
3rd) Within the next 3 to 5 seconds, press the PREVIOUS or NEXT buttons to decrease or increase, respec-
tively, the brightness of the display.
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0
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MUTE
Enable or disable the External (remote) Trigger:
1st) Place the BCD-1 in standby mode by pressing the POWER button on either the BCD-1 itself or on the
remote control until the red standby LED on the front panel of the BCD-1 (immediabely above the
front panel POWER button) lights.
TIME
SCAN RANDOM REPEAT
2nd) Press the CODE button momentarily until the red LED is continuously lit.
3rd) Enter the code 241. Every time the code is successfuly entered the state of the External Trigger will
toggle between enabled and disabled and the status of the External Trigger will be dislayed on the
alpha-numeric display for 2 to 3 seconds.
BACK PREVIOUS NEXT FORWARD
The External Trigger utilizes a control voltage (3 to 12 volts, either AC or DC) connected to the
TRIGGER IN port on the rear of the BCD-1. A wire-clamp connector that mates with the TRIGGER IN
port is provided with every BCD-1 (See page 2 for wiring details). Once enabled the BCD-1 will only
be powered on when a control voltage of 3-12V AC/DC at ≥3mA is present. As soon as the control
voltage is withdrawn the BCD-1 will power down and go
EJECT
STOP
PAUSE
PLAY
BCD-1 REMOTE CONTROL
into standby mode.
Programming the remote control:
The infra-red remote control suppplied with the BCD-1 can also be used to control the volume and mute functions several other
Bryston products including the BP26 & BP6 preamps, B60R and B100 integrated amplifiers and the SP2 Surround Sound Proces-
sor/Preamp. To program the BCD-1 remote control to operate other Bryston models follow these steps:
1st) Press and hold the CODE button on the BCD-1 remote until the red LED begins to flash (usually takes about 5 seconds).
2nd) Enter a three digit code as follows:
711 : SP2 PreAmp/Processor
712 : B100 integrated amplifier
715 : BCD-1 (since there is no volume/mute control in the BCD-1 code 715 merely disables those buttons on the remote)
721 : BP26 preamp
722 : B60R integrated amplifier & BP6 preamp
The red LED will flash twice after a code has been entered successfully.
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POWER button:
Toggles power to the BCD-1 on and off. Note that the POWER button (both on the remote and on the BCD-
1’s front panel) will not work when the External (Remote) Trigger has been enabled.
Increases / decreases the volume respectively.
VOLUME / :
MUTE button:
NUMERIC buttons:
Mutes the audio outputs of the BCD-1
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). Also used in conjunction with the CODE button to program both the IR
remote and the BDC-1 itself (See above for more details).
TIME button:
Pressing the TIME button initially causes the displays to show the elapsed time of the track that is play-
ing. Pressing the TIME button again changes the display
to show the remaining track time. Pressing it a 3rd time
shows the elapsed time for the entire disc, and press-
ing it a 4th time shows the remaining time for the entire
disc. The time display will continue to cycle through these
various modes with every subsequent press of the TIME but-
ton.
TRACK TIME ELAPSED
DISC TIME ELAPSED
DISC TIME REMAINING
TRACK TIME REMAINING
SCAN button:
Automatically plays the first 10 seconds of each track. To stop scanning the disc and
play the track currently being previewed, press SCAN again. Pressing the PLAY button
while in the middle of scanning a track will restart the 10 second scan of the current
track. Both the NEXT and PREVIOUS track buttons can be used while scanning
Plays all tracks on the disc in a random order. Display will show “RANDOM” when
engaged.
RANDOM button:
REPEAT button:
Press once to repeat the current track; display will show “RPT
TRACK”. Press again to repeat the entire disc; display will
show “RPT DISC”. Press REPEAT again to cancel repeat modes.
BACK button:
Back or review plays in reverse at several times the normal speed until the button is released.
PREVIOUS button: Advances immediately to the beginning of the previous track.
NEXT button:
Advances immediately to the beginning of the next track.
FORWARD button:
EJECT button:
STOP button:
Fast forward or preview plays at several times the normal speed until the button is released.
Stops play immediately and opens the disc drawer.
Stops play immediately. Subsequently pressing PLAY will begin play from beginning of disc.
Stops play immediately. Subsequently pressing PAUSE will resume play from the paused position. Pressing
PLAY after the disc has been PAUSED will cause play to resume from the beginning of the current track.
Plays disc. Entering a 1 or 2 digit number and then pressing PLAY will play that track number.
PAUSE button:
PLAY button:
CAUTION
The BCD-1 contains a class 1 laser and although this is considered inherently safe do not operate the BCD-1 without the top panel on.
ELECTRICAL SPECIFICATIONS
Power Consumption:
Standby: 0.84W
Idle: 7.2W
Play: 9W.
BCD-1 EXTERNAL DIMENSIONS
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