Cambridge Audio Stream Magic 6 User Manual Download

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Network music player

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20,000 internet radio stations

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Music streaming from computer/NAS/USB

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Digital audio pre-amp featuring optional
digital volume and channel balance control

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Upsampling Digital to Analogue Converter
featuring S/PDIF and Toslink digital inputs
and USB audio input (all 24 bit compatible)

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Twin Wolfson WM8740 DACs

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ATF2 audio up-sampling to 24-bit/384kHz

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USB audio input allowing streaming of up to
24-bit/192kHz audio from computer

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Selectable digital filters – linear phase,
minimum phase, steep

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Free iPad/iPhone app giving full control of unit

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Support for optional BT100 Bluetooth receiver,
allowing audio to be streamed and up-
sampled from any paired aptX or A2DP
Bluetooth device

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Balanced and unbalanced analogue audio
outputs for superior connectivity

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Full metal casework design with thick brushed
aluminium front panel and dual layer damped
feet, giving enhanced resonance control

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Eco-friendly

<0.5W

Standby

power

consumption

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Azur Navigator remote control with Cambridge
Audio amplifier control

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Available in black and silver finishes

Stream Magic 6 Upsampling Network Player

Feb 2012

Detailed Specifications

DAC

Dual Wolfson WM8740 24-bit DACs

Digital filter

2nd Generation ATF2 up-sampling to 24-bit/384kHz.
Linear Phase, Minimum phase or Steep modes.

Analogue filter

2-Pole Dual Differential Bessel Double Virtual Earth Balanced

Digital Input

S/PDIF 75 ohms or TOSLink optical

USB Audio Input

USB Type B conforming to Audio profile 1.0 or USB Audio profile
2.0 (user 1.0 or USB Audio profile 2.0 (user selectable)

Analogue audio outputs

Balanced XLR and unbalanced RCA analogue audio outputs

Compatibility

UPnP 16-24 bit, 32-96kHz
Local USB media 16-24 bit, 32-96kHz
USB Audio1.0 16-24 bit, 32-96kHz
USB Audio 2.0 16-24 bit, 32-192kHz
Toslink 16-24 bit, 32-96kHz
S/PDIF 16-24 bit, 32-192kHz
BT100 Bluetooth receiver: A2DP plus aptX

Audio formats

WAV, FLAC, AIFF, WMA, MP3, AAC, HE AAC, AAC+, OGG Vorbis

Standby power consumption

<0.5W

Dimensions (H x W x D)

85 x 430 x 305mm (3.4 x 16.9 x 12.2”)

Weight

4 kg (8.8lbs)

Summary of Contents for Stream Magic 6

Page 1: ...Your music our passion Network Player User s manual 2 ENGLISH ...

Page 2: ...m naturally we particularly recommend components from the Cambridge Audio Azur range as these have been designed to the same exacting standards as this product Your dealer can also supply excellent quality Cambridge Audio interconnects to ensure your system realises its full potential Thanks for taking the time to read this manual we do recommend you keep it for future reference Matthew Bramble Ca...

Page 3: ...et with a protective earthing connection The unit must be installed in a manner that makes disconnection of the mains plug from the mains socket outlet or appliance connector from the rear of the unit possible Where the mains plug is used as the disconnect device the disconnect device shall remain readily operable Only use the mains cord supplied with this unit Please ensure there is ample ventila...

Page 4: ...h the limits for a Class B digital device pursuant to Part 15 of the FCC Rules These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference in a residential installation This equipment generates uses and can radiate radio frequency energy and if not installed and used in accordance with the instructions may cause harmful interference to radio communications However there...

Page 5: ...plug Connect them as follows The wire which is coloured BLUE must be connected to the terminal which is marked with the letter N or coloured BLACK The wire which is coloured BROWN must be connected to the terminal which is marked with the letter L or coloured RED The wire which is coloured GREEN YELLOW must be connected to the terminal which is marked with the letter E or coloured GREEN I D VWDQGD...

Page 6: ...ical 8VH D KLJK TXDOLW 726 1 ÀEUH RSWLF LQWHUFRQQHFW FDEOH GHVLJQHG VSHFLÀFDOO IRU DXGLR XVH 8 5 QIUD 5HG PLWWHU Q A 3 5mm mini jack socket that enables modulated IR commands from multi room or IR repeater systems to be received by the Stream Magic 6 1RWH Commands received by the IR Emitter In socket are not looped out of the Control Bus Refer to the Custom Installation section for more informatio...

Page 7: ...ly interactive button Press when listening to an Internet Radio station or Streaming Service that has some form of interaction with the user This function will bring up an interactive menu where available This feature is commonly used allow indication that you like or don t like the current stream so the service can tailor the music served to your personal taste For Media playback UPnP or Local th...

Page 8: ...ct the digital input source Home Go directly to the top Home Menu 5HWXUQ Press to return to the previous menu 1DYLJDWLRQ Press to navigate around the main menus Enter Press to accept the item function highlighted in the display menu In tuner mode press and hold to store the current station in the preset bank 5HSO This is the reply interactive button Press when listening to an Internet Radio statio...

Page 9: ...re similar to Internet Radio but come from other suppliers and often have an element of interaction with the user Because Streaming Services generally allow the user some choice over the content they listen to they are also licensed differently to iRadio by the music companies and often each service only has arrangements in certain countries and may also charge a subscription for membership Exampl...

Page 10: ...tems QWHUQHW 5DGLR 6WUHDPLQJ 6HUYLFHV 0HGLD 3RGFDVWV Digital Inputs Settings These allow acess to the four basic types of media choice plus a Settings menu for the unit You can return to this menu at any time by pressing and holding the button Simply scroll through the items with the scroll wheel or navigator buttons on the remote control and press in the scroll wheel or use the select button on t...

Page 11: ...of such services are Pandora Rhapsody Live365 SIRIUS XM Mp3Tunes and others When you enter this menu the ones that are available to you in your country will be shown Those that are free to use or have a free to use version will work straight out of the box Others will guide you to the relevant sign up page should you so wish For more details on what these services offer please go to our ZZZ VWUHDP...

Page 12: ... item is a track the Stream Magic 6 will repeat that track if it is an album or artist etc the Stream Magic 6 will repeat all tracks in that item The Stream Magic 6 displays a in the Now Playing screen when Repeat is On 86 0HGLD The Stream Magic 6 can also playback audio content from standard USB hard GULYHV DQG WKXPE GULYHV 6LPSO FRS RXU PHGLD ÀOHV RQWR RXU 86 GULYH DQG WKHQ connect it to the fro...

Page 13: ...ets will be deleted when a unit is registered re registered online Digital Inputs Digital Inputs 86 XGLR 6 3 RD Toslink Optical 7 LI ÀWWHG The Stream Magic 6 has 3 digital inputs USB Audio S P DIF co axial and Toslink optical The digital inputs allow you to play audio sent from a separate digital audio source such as a PC or CD player with digital outputs This can optimise sound quality for exampl...

Page 14: ...ginally invented by Steinberg ltd ASIO bypasses some of the normal audio path from the playback application through the Windows audio system including the Kernel Mixer for a more direct path to the Stream Magic 6 You will need to install and use a suitable playback application that supports ASIO output either natively or via a plugin One example of such an application with a suitable plugin is Foo...

Page 15: ...J XS RQ D VHFRQG Some devices stream empty data all the time even when paused or stopped These devices will cause the BT100s LED to be on even if playback is currently stopped or paused 7KLV PHQX FRQWDLQV YDULRXV VHWXS FRQÀJXUDWLRQ PHQXV DV VKRZQ EHORZ Settings 5HJLVWHU 8QLW Network Firmware Stream Magic 6 Name GYDQFHG DFWRU 5HVHW 5HJLVWHU 8QLW This will display a key that can be used to register ...

Page 16: ...enter the default gateway s IP address used by the Stream Magic 6 on the network Finally you will need to enter the DNS IP address for the Stream Magic 6 On some networks you may need to enter your ISP s DNS IP address which should be available on your ISP s support page on their website After entering the above information the Stream Magic 6 will now try to connect to your network If you wish to ...

Page 17: ...remember that this can t be done over the network i e from the iOS app and that it takes longer to reach the full operational state 8SJUDGH LUPZDUH 8VH WKLV RSWLRQ WR GRZQORDG QHZ ÀUPZDUH IRU WKH 6WUHDP 0DJLF IURP DPEULGJH Audio over the Internet If you select this item the Stream Magic 6 will contact our server and see if a newer version of software is available Checking for updates will be shown...

Page 18: ...wered Cambridge Audio products The application allows full control of the Stream Magic 6 including Stream Magic Radio Streaming Services UPnP Media Presets Queuing and more It also supports display of Album artwork and Station logos where available To use Stream Magic Remote you will need a Wi Fi network or Access point for the application to connect to the connection from your router to the Strea...

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Page 30: ...n the left hand side of the window Windows 7 To enable UPnP playback from your Windows 7 PC in Control Panel open Network and Sharing Centre dvanced sharing settings by clicking the link on the left hand side of Set up guide Windows 7 UPnP set up guide dvanced sharing settings by clicking the link on the left hand side of ...

Page 31: ...hoose media streaming options 4 Click Turn on media streaming Windows 7 Home or Work profile scroll down to Media streaming Choose media streaming options edia streaming Set up guide Windows 7 UPnP set up guide treaming and select ...

Page 32: ...omputer will be seen r name you have given your media library when you scan for UPnP servers in UPnP server Window s UPnP server works with most file formats but it is worth noting that it is not compatible with FLAC files for example not serve them to the NP30 If you do not wish to use Windows UPnP server or you specifically want to play FLAC files then you will need to manually install third par...

Page 33: ...P clients on your network Examples of UPnP server software http www elgato com elgato int mainmenu products software EyeConnect en html http www allegrosoft com ams html http www twonkyvision de http www cidero com radioServer html http www cybergarage org net cmgate java index html Please note that these links are to third party UPnP software providers so for technical assistance you will need to...

Page 34: ...tivation code to continue using EyeConnect s full range of features or continue using EyeConnect in EyeConnect requires a Macintosh computer with built in USB 2 0 ports and Mac OS X 10 4 11 Tiger or later We recommend Mac OS X 10 6 2 Snow Leopard with all software and security updates installed EyeConnect is software that you install in your OS X System Preferences It can be activated ll find any ...

Page 35: ...Save the file and open it once the download 3 Click on EyeConnect Installer Mac ave the file and open it once the download has completed Click on EyeConnect Installer icon Set up guide Mac UPnP set up guide ...

Page 36: ...4 4 Click Open if prompted 5 Software Licence Agreement 6 Click Install Mac if prompted Agreement will appear click Continue and then Set up guide Mac UPnP set up guide and then click Agree ...

Page 37: ...yeConnect should then launch automatically and any UPnP devices Stream Magic product should appear in the Devices window should be enabled by default within EyeConnect At this point ac should now appear in the Stream Magic product s UPnP servers EyeConnect ComputerName You will now be able to stream music from your Mac to the over your network Set up guide Mac UPnP set up guide EyeConnect should t...

Page 38: ...hlight the Stream Magic product isable This will either enable or disable the Stre from accessing the music on your Mac If you don t wish EyeConnect to automatically also serve your video files o over your network you can also choose what content on your Mac that you wish to ved over the network First Stop EyeConnect Set up guide Mac UPnP set up guide t the Stream Magic product Stream Magic serve ...

Page 39: ...t to serve over your network Then use the buttons to c or not to serve this type of content Then restart EyeConnect in the Start Stop window so that EyeConnect once agai serves your music to your Stream Magic product When you shut down your Mac EyeConnect will also be shut down and your longer be available to the Stream Magic product over the When you restart your Mac you must launch EyeConnect so...

Page 40: ...our Mac click the Apple Home menu and select Then click on the EyeConnect icon within System Preferences to launch the EyeConnect should then reappear in the Stream Magic product s menu if you scan for UPnP servers You will once again be able to play the t from your Mac through the Stream Magic product Set up guide Mac UPnP set up guide click the Apple Home menu and select to launch the appear in ...

Page 41: ...ther computer on your network or music stored on a Network Attached Storage NAS device on your network Using UPnP the Stream Magic product can connect to these devices and play back or stream this music via the network Many NAS drives support a built in UPnP server that can automatically serve any content stored internally so that having a computer switched on is no longer necessary When connectin...

Page 42: ...ions to a particular MAC addresses You can view the Stream Magic product s MAC address using the menu item Settings Network Config View Config MAC address If you have an encrypted Wi Fi network check that you have entered the correct key or passphrase into the Stream Magic product Remember that text format keys are case sensitive If when attempting to connect to an encrypted network your Stream Ma...

Page 43: ...NAS drive and from operating system to operating system e g NAS manufacturers are aware of this and do provide a basic set manufacturer software is intended to make the NAS drive easy to install and quick to you don t wish to install the NAS software on your computer and know the name of into the windows address bar followed by the NAS drive name in the case mybook Firstly you will need to make su...

Page 44: ...unblock This will not damage affect the security or affect the performance of the PC It is standard protocol if the Firewall is turned on Set up guide NAS drive set up guide Then by selecting MyBookWorld you will then access Map Network Drive Things To Do list You will need to map the network drive When installing the NAS drive if the Windows firewall at any time attempts to block the setup proces...

Page 45: ... folder will be empty This is where the fun begins music onto the NAS drive for the Stream Magic product to play This procedure We will show you It is simply a copy and paste Set up guide NAS drive set up guide There are two drives Public and Download You can change what letter drive they are if you already have a drive being used for example You can now close the WD Discovery installation window ...

Page 46: ...d be the T drive and then music When you are in the shared music folder simply right click to paste the album s or track s your choice onto the NAS drive Set up guide NAS drive set up guide on your computer select and copy the music that you wish to transfer to the NAS After your music has been selected to copy you will ook music folder in our and then shared you are in the shared music folder sim...

Page 47: ...ay have installed when setting up your NAS to go straight to its login page Alternatively if you know the IP address of your NAS drive eg 192 168 0 04 you can type this into your browser to take you to the NAS s web configuration login page Once you are in the NAS s web configuration page you must navigate to enable media streaming or similar option please refer to your NAS user manual for precise...

Page 48: ...se Music There are then a ber of options available to you We are going to choose Artist for the purpose of this nts of the NAS by using the Stream Magic product s remote control or or from the Stream Magic Remote application How the NAS is browsed depends on the option UPnP server presents For example one UPnP server may give you the option to browse by album etc but another may give you the optio...

Page 49: ...iendly 0 5W Standby power consumption Azur Navigator remote control with Cambridge Audio amplifier control Available in black and silver finishes Stream Magic 6 Upsampling Network Player Feb 2012 Detailed Specifications DAC Dual Wolfson WM8740 24 bit DACs Digital filter 2nd Generation ATF2 up sampling to 24 bit 384kHz Linear Phase Minimum phase or Steep modes Analogue filter 2 Pole Dual Differenti...

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