Compact Disc Player Alpha
A&R Cambridge Ltd. (ARCAM); Waterbeach, Cambridge
- Country
- Great Britain (UK)
- Manufacturer / Brand
- A&R Cambridge Ltd. (ARCAM); Waterbeach, Cambridge
- Year
- 1989 ?
- Category
- Sound/Video Recorder and/or Player
- Radiomuseum.org ID
- 312672
- Number of Transistors
- Semiconductors present.
- Semiconductors
- Main principle
- Audio-Amplification
- Wave bands
- - without
- Details
- CD-Player, -Writer, MD, MOD (audio); Remote Control (with wire or wireless)
- Power type and voltage
- Alternating Current supply (AC) / 120 or 220 or 240 Volt
- Loudspeaker
- - For headphones or amp.
- Material
- Metal case
- from Radiomuseum.org
- Model: Compact Disc Player Alpha - A&R Cambridge Ltd. ARCAM;
- Shape
- Book-shelf unit.
- Dimensions (WHD)
- 430 x 85 x 287 mm / 16.9 x 3.3 x 11.3 inch
- Notes
-
A stereo hi-fi compact disc player with a digital display and remote control (CR10). With a twin power transformer and oversampling digital to analogue conversion. RCA sockets for audio output and digital output.
Specification
Playback system
16 bit Compact Disc Digital Audio, using ultra linear, dual DACs (TDA1541) and high performance analogue filter and output stagesOptical readout system (Philips CDM-4)
Laser type semiconductor Al Ga As
Numerical Aperture 0.45
Wavelength 800 nmTypical Audio Performance 20Hz-20kHz unless otherwise stated)
Frequency response ± 0.1dB 10Hz-10kHz,
- 0.5dB at 20kHz
Channel balance ± 0.2dB
Channel phase balance ± 0.5 deg.
0.007% at 1 kHz, 0dB
Signal to Noise Ratio 98dB CCIR/ARM weighted
Dynamic Range 96dB
Channel Separation 90dB at 1 kHz
Wow and flutter Quartz precision controlOutputs
Output level 2.2V rms at MSB (0dB)
Output impedance 22ohms
Minimum load impedance 5k ohm
- Net weight (2.2 lb = 1 kg)
- 3.7 kg / 8 lb 2.4 oz (8.15 lb)
- Literature/Schematics (1)
- - - Manufacturers Literature (Alpha CD Handbook dated June 1991)
- Literature/Schematics (2)
- - - Manufacturers Literature (Alpha CD Player Service Manual Issue 2 October 91)
- Author
- Model page created by Howard Craven. See "Data change" for further contributors.
- Other Models
-
Here you find 22 models, 22 with images and 2 with schematics for wireless sets etc. In French: TSF for Télégraphie sans fil.
All listed radios etc. from A&R Cambridge Ltd. (ARCAM); Waterbeach, Cambridge