The CD-500 is an extremely compact CD player available as a standard or professional version. The slimline housing comprises a slot-loading drive with reliable brushless motor as well as a full set of functions ideal for small broadcast or recording studios, theatres, touring sound companies, fitness studios or any permanent installation.
Alongside the typical play and repeat modes, the player offers many functions for professional use, such as flash start, auto cue (search for beginning of track), auto ready (automatic pause at the end of a track), call (jump to the position at which playback was last started), pitch control (±16%) including the opportunity to alter the tempo while retaining the key, intro-check or fade-in/fade-out. In order to be able to integrate into media control devices and into permanent installations, there is a relay play function, fader start or event start capability, EOM signal and a serial port. Furthermore, the device can resume playback after being switched on again and can remember a variety of operating conditions after being switched off.
The standard version has an unbalanced analogue output as well as optical and coaxial digital output. The professional version (CD-500B) provides the user with an additional XLR balanced analogue output, an AES/EBU digital output and a parallel port.
Main Product Features
- Ultra-compact rack-mountable CD player (1U)
- Highly reliable brushless motor
- Slot-in CD drive mechanism
- Audio CD-R/RW, MP3 (192KBit/s) and WAV playback
- Flash start capability for up to 20 tracks
- Numeric keys for track selection and flash start
- Frame accurate search
- Call function (return to the point where playback last started)
- Skip back function (jump back a few seconds during playback)
- Auto cue, auto ready, intro check functions
- Resume function
- Index search for audio CDs
- Directory search for MP3 CDs
- Playback modes include Single, All and Program (up to 99 tracks)
- Memory for playback programs of up to 100 CDs
- Repeat modes include Single, All and A–B
- Selectable interval time between tracks
- ±16% pitch control with dedicated rotary encoder
- Key original function (change speed only)
- Fade in/out (up to 10 seconds, in 0.5-second steps)
- Time display (track elapsed / track remain / total remain)
