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[familyman]

i just bought a new pcdp from The Bay, it's an ascent acd01-sl. i cant find any info on the net about it.

i need some professional feedback from all you audio brainiacks

its got a line out that is not effected by volume.
anyways heres what the specs in the manual say:

PICK-UP
system - compact disc digital audio system
laser diode- material: GaAIAs
properties - wavelength: (weird symbol) =780nm
emission duration: continuous
laser output: <44.6 uW
error correction - cross-interleave reed-solomon code

AUDIO
D/A conversion - 1-bit DAC 8 times oversampling
frequency response - 20-20,000hz (+1/-3 db)
no. of channels - 2 channels (stereo)
output level - line output:0.5 V rms (47K (ohms symbol, i think))
earphone: 22mw (32 (ohms symbol again))
bass boost effect(100hz) - +7.5 db.
wow and flutter - below measurable limits

I DONT KNOW WHAT ANY OF THIS MEANS!!
any feedback is good feedback!

 

[familyman]

should i pop it open and take a picture of the guts and post it?

(it comes with this cool tiny remote that you can plug into the headphone out to control the play/stop/fw/rw when your pluged into the line out.

)

 

[familyman]

anyone?

 

[Filburt]

If you take some pictures of the guts, I might be able to help you on the technical parts of the ICs on it, but I can't guarantee that.

As far as the specs, they're pretty standard for something like one of those $20-30 PCDPs that are still sold. 8 times oversampling isn't so hot for 1bit D/A, but it'll probably still get decent dynamic range in the portions of the audible spectrum that matter the most...unless it has a _really_ good noise shaper...which I doubt.

 

[familyman]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Filburt If you take some pictures of the guts, I might be able to help you on the technical parts of the ICs on it, but I can't guarantee that. As far as the specs, they're pretty standard for something like one of those $20-30 PCDPs that are still sold. 8 times oversampling isn't so hot for 1bit D/A, but it'll probably still get decent dynamic range in the portions of the audible spectrum that matter the most...unless it has a _really_ good noise shaper...which I doubt.

check out http://www6.head-fi.org/forums/showthread.php?t=159782

 

[Filburt]

Ah, okay. It actually looks similar to one of Sony's units. I forget the model number. Although the lack of tantalum caps distinguishes it from the newer Sonys.

Glad you're enjoying it

 

[Oddball]

It reminds me of this Sony PCDP, which was a pretty standard one.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...Fencoding=UTF8