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Safety Warnings 

 

It is important that your Red Reference is earthed at all times via its own mains lead. Failure 

to  do  this  may  be  hazardous.  The  power  supply  components  within  the  transport  are 

designed to operate at lethal voltages and energy levels. Circuit designs that embody these 

components conform to applicable safety requirements. Precautions must be taken to prevent 

accidental contact with power-line potentials. Do not connect grounded test equipment. 

 

Caution: 

This  product  employs  a  laser  that  emits  both  visible  and  invisible  radiation. 

Removal  of  the  top  cover  or  tampering  with  any  of  the  enclosed  electronics  may  result  in 

exposure  to  hazardous  levels  of  laser  radiation  that  could  cause  eye  damage.  To  prevent 

injury this product should be returned for qualified service to Chord Electronics Ltd.  

 

 

There  are  no  user  serviceable  parts  within  the  Red  Reference  CD  player. 

Unauthorised  tampering  or  dismantling  of  this  product  will  invalidate  the 

warranty and could cause injury. 

 

Summary of Contents for Red Reference MK III

Page 1: ...1 Red Reference MK III CD Player...

Page 2: ...down short term 6 Connecting your equipment 7 Coaxial digital output 8 AES EBU digital outputs 9 Optical digital output 10 Wordclock input 11 Digital inputs 11 Using USB HD Digital Audio 12 Balanced a...

Page 3: ...ology to give the most accurate reproduction of compact disc that can be obtained With internal 176 4KHz upsampling data transfer selectable RAM buffer clock retiming and now 18000 tap length filterin...

Page 4: ...live terminal Connect the yellow green wire to the earth terminal if you need to fit a plug for US Canada Connect the white wire to the neutral terminal Connect the black wire to the live terminal Con...

Page 5: ...t with power line potentials Do not connect grounded test equipment Caution This product employs a laser that emits both visible and invisible radiation Removal of the top cover or tampering with any...

Page 6: ...owing both system status and disc information The red multi function display will read CHORD followed by the status information showing input buffer frequency settings and lock information If Red Refe...

Page 7: ...d unbalanced analogue outputs In addition to the standard digital outputs a special Dual Data output provides an upsampled digital output at 176 4KHz Connection to both AES EBU is required for this mo...

Page 8: ...edance behaviour and are essential for the correct transfer of digital audio data If your digital analog converter only has RCA phono coaxial digital inputs it is worth having a cable made by a specia...

Page 9: ...data output Frequency settings When the front panel frequency switch is set to 176K the AES EBU outputs send the Dual Data output as outlined in the previous section This may be useful when using Red...

Page 10: ...al connection can be very useful in the prevention of earth loops as there is no electrical connection between two products in a system This may be required when combining Red Reference with products...

Page 11: ...a signal is connected Digital inputs The Red Reference comes equipped with three different types of digital inputs allowing compatibility with virtually any digital audio source equipment Digital aud...

Page 12: ...our computer this can be on your desktop Double click on the zip file contained on the CD to open it Select and drag all files in the temporary folder this will automatically unzip all the files Autom...

Page 13: ...to launch uninstalling Manually uninstalling the driver on a Windows based PC Connect Red Reference to the PC Go to the control panel and launch the System utility then select Hardware tab Open the De...

Page 14: ...onfiguring a PC with Windows Vista or Windows 7 A PC with Windows Vista or Windows 7 can use Red Reference in three different ways Direct Sound DS Kernel Streaming KS and WASAPI DS is suitable for pla...

Page 15: ...window and set parameters 5 2 Winamp and MediaMonkey These two players are actually the same player with different skins so they can share the same plug ins A freeware plug in for Kernel Streaming by...

Page 16: ...ence to the computer with the supplied USB cable Run the Windows Control panel and select Hardware and Sound The select Manage Audio Devices Here you have a list of the connected audio devices The Red...

Page 17: ...the Advanced tab at the top of the window Here you can change the default format to the sample frequency you require We recommend 2 channel 24 bit 192000 Hz Studio Quality Click the arrow and select t...

Page 18: ...ea at this stage to set the Digital Output as the default sound output device Highlight Digital Output as shown then click the Set Default button at the bottom of the page Click the OK button to conti...

Page 19: ...e pre amplifier RIGHT LEFT Unbalanced outputs You need to connect the outputs on the back of your Red Reference to a pre amplifier which in turn will feed a signal to a power amplifier in order to dri...

Page 20: ...tly but firmly in the CD housing so that the centre of the disc sits right on the spindle Now press the open button to close the lid again Wait a short time for Red Reference to read the disc Table of...

Page 21: ...nel and on the supplied remote control For the purposes of the instructions below it does not matter which set of controls are being used The Red Reference uses a dual display The left hand side indic...

Page 22: ...output a source connected via the XLR USB or optical digital inputs select XLR USB or OPT as appropriate This uses the high quality internal QBD76 decoder to reproduce the analogue signal Lock Indica...

Page 23: ...t signal for any errors and to correct them There are three buffer settings to choose from These are no buffering 0BUF minimum buffering MIN and maximum buffering MAX The three buffer settings are cho...

Page 24: ...ection hold down Search Back or Search Forward To speed up the search press the FAST key once while Search Back or Search Forward are held down The FAST key has no effect if pressed on its own STANDBY...

Page 25: ...ion If you press STOP a second time then you will exit program mode and your track selection will be lost REPEAT While the disc is playing press REPEAT once to repeat the whole disc REPEAT will be sho...

Page 26: ...ts The Red Reference features two trigger outputs that can be used to remotely trigger other Chord equipment The external trigger should be connected via a standard 1 8th inch 3 5mm mono or stereo jac...

Page 27: ...LANCED XLR SWITCHABLE RAM BUFFER Position 1 No Buffering Position 2 Minimum Buffering Position 3 Maximum Buffering WORD CLOCK INPUT 44 1KHz Word Clock Synchronisation via BNC input SAMPLE FREQUENCIES...

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