Arcam SOLO MUSIC, Handbook

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E-17 E-16
English
disc & file
formats
Playable discs
The Solo movie supports the following
disc types:
Blu-ray 3D
Blu-ray Disc
DVD-Video
DVD-R
DVD-RW
CD-Audio
CD-R
CD-RW
Super Audio CD
DVD region
code Area
1 North America
2 Europe, Japan, Middle
East, Egypt, South Africa,
Greenland
3 Taiwan, Korea, the
Philippines, Indonesia,
Hong Kong
4 Mexico, South America,
Central America, Australia,
New Zealand, Pacific
Islands, Caribbean
5 Russia, Eastern Europe,
India, most of Africa, North
Korea, Mongolia
6 China
All All areas
Symbols indicating disc will play in North
America:
Blu-ray Discs: DVDs:
Symbols indicating disc will play in Europe:
Blu-ray Discs: DVDs:
The Solo music supports the following disc
types:
CD-Audio
CD-R
CD-RW
Super Audio CD
Playback of the followning file formats are
supported (over Disc, USB and network) by
both Solo movie and Solo music:
<
FLAC, up to 24 bit, 192 KHz
< WAV, up 24 bit, 192 KHz
< AAC, up to 24 bit, 96 KHz
< AIFF, up to 24 bit, 192 KHz
< OGG, up to 24 bit, 192 KHz
<
MP3, up to 320 kbps, 48 KHz
< WMA, up to 192 kbps, 48 KHz
Supported video formats
(Solo movie only)
Video file compatibility with your player is
limited as follows:
< Maximum resolution size: 1920x1080
(W x H) pixels
< File extensions: .wmv, .avi, .mp4,
.mpeg, .mpg, .vob, .mkv (Note: Files
encoded by Divx cannot be played on
this player)
<
Playable Audio format: Dolby Digital,
DTS, MP3, WMA, AAC
<
Sampling frequency: within 32 to
48kHz (WMA), within 8 to 48kHz (Mp3)
<
Bit rate: within 32 to 192kbps (WMA),
within 32 to 320kbps (Mp3)
< Not all of the WMA and AAC Audio
formats are compatible with your
player.
<
Blu-ray, DVD, or USB 2.0 are
recommended to play back HD WMA
movie files.
< Your player does not support files that
are recorded with GMC (Global Motion
Compensation) or Qpel (Quarter
pixel). Those are video encoding
techniques in MPEG4 standard, like
DivX.
Region coding (Solo movie
only)
Blu-ray disc players and Blu-ray or DVD
discs are assigned region codes according
to the region in which they are sold. If the
region codes do not match, the disc will
not play.
Blu-ray Disc
region code Area
A North America, Central
America, South America,
Korea, Japan, Taiwan,
Hong Kong and South
East Asia
B Europe, Greenland, French
territories, Middle East,
Africa, Australia and New
Zealand
C India, China, Russia,
Central and South Asia
A + B + C All areas
Region Selection
Limited by local law regulations, version
for North America does not have region
selection option.
basic operation
Operating your Solo
Introduction
This section explains the basic opration of
the Solo. Note that it may be necessary to
configure the Solo correctly for optimum
performance. Details regarding system
setttings can be found in “settings menu”
on page E-28.
Switching on
Switch the unit on by pressing the power
button. The status LED glows green when
the unit is powered up. If the power
button is pressed (or power is removed)
whilst in standby, the unit will enter
standby mode when power is re-applied.
Standby
The Solo has a standby mode which can
be entered by pressing
2
on the remote
control. When in standby mode, the
display is blank and the POWER LED glows
red.
If the unit is to be left unused for an
extended period, we recommend that you
disconnect it from the mains supply to
save power.
To switch on from standby, press the
2
button on the remote control.
Home screen
Press the button at any time to display
the Solo home screen. The home screen
will allow you to access the following:
Start playing a CD/DVD/
BD disc. See “playing a
disc” on page E-25.
Allows you to play
multimedia files. See
“network/usb operation”
on page E-26.
Access the Solo settings
options. See “settings
menu” on page E-28.
Allows the selection of
various inputs of the Solo
Selecting a source
To select a particular source, press
the
INPUT- or INPUT+ buttons on the
front panel until that source is shown
on the front panel display, or press the
corresponding source button on the
remote (see “Device mode / Source keys”
on page E-19).
The following sources are available:
RADIO Internal DAB/FM tuner
BT Internal Bluetooth input
MEDIA
Network input (e.g UPnP
devices), USB solid-state
device (e.g. pen drive) input
DISC Internal disc player
AV Audio-Visual HDMI input
SAT Satellite HDMI input
PVR
Personal Video Recorder
HDMI input
GAME Game console HDMI input
LINE
Phono jack analogue audio
input
AUX 3.5mm analogue audio input
STB
Set Top Box coaxial digital
audio input
TV TV optical audio input
A particular input source can also be
selected using the source option from the
home screen, as described in the previous
section.
Volume control
The volume can be increased or decreased
either by turning the top panel rotary
control (see “Top panel controls” on page
E-9) or by using the volume control
button on the remote control (see “Volume
control” on page E-19).
Headphones
To use headphones with the Solo, plug the
headphones into the phones socket on
the front panel.
When headphones are plugged into the
front panel phones socket, the speaker
and sub outputs are muted and the audio
will be down-mixed to two channels (2.0).