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Super Audio CD
Super Audio CD is a new high-quality audio
disc standard where music is recorded in the
DSD (Direct Stream Digital) format
(conventional CD is recorded in the PCM
format). The DSD format, using a sampling
frequency 64 times higher than that of a
conventional CD, and with 1-bit quantization,
achieves both a wide frequency range and a wide
dynamic range across the audible frequency
range, and so provides music reproduction
extremely faithful to the original sound.
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Super Audio CD types
There are two types of discs, depending on the
Super Audio CD layer and CD layer
combination.
• Super Audio CD layer: A high-density
signal layer for Super Audio CD
• CD layer
1)
: A layer that is readable by a
conventional CD player
A Super Audio CD layer consists of the 2
channel area or the multi-channel area.
• 2 channel area: An area in which 2 channel
stereo tracks are recorded
• Multi-channel area: An area in which multi-
channel (up to 5.1 channels) tracks are
recorded
1)
You can play the CD layer on a conventional CD
player.
2)
Since both layers are on one side, it is not necessary
to turn the disc over.
3)
To select a layer, see “To select a playback layer
when playing a hybrid Super Audio CD” (page 39).
4)
To select an area, see “To select a playback area on a
2 c Multi-channel Super Audio CD”
(page 38).
Single layer disc
(a disc with a single Super Audio CD layer)
Super Audio CD
layer
Hybrid disc
2)
(a disc with a Super Audio CD layer and a CD layer)
Super Audio CD
layer
3)
CD layer
3)
Super Audio CD
layer
Multi channel area
4)
2 channel area
4)
