Arcam CDS50

CDS50 | Arcam’s most advanced CD | digital audio and network streaming player yet

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Arcam CDS50

Discontinued replaced by Arcam CD5

Arcam’s most advanced CD, digital audio and network streaming player yet.

CDS50

In a sense, digital audio doesn’t exist. You’d have to be a particularly dull superhero to possess ears that can decode the millions of 1’s and 0’s that make up your CD collection or iTunes library.

Whatever the source – be it a laptop, CD player, smartphone, USB stick – the result is just a vibration in your speakers. In other words, it all winds up analogue in the end.

Arguably, when playing from a digital format, the most vital component is the DAC, or Digital to Analogue Converter. We’ll spare you the bulk of the science, but this is what translates that otherwise lifeless binary code into audible sound energy. Bit-depth, meanwhile, is a key measure of audio quality.

So, if you’re listening to a 24-bit WAV copy of your favourite album through a DAC that only converts to 16-bit, there’s a good chunk of detail going to waste right there.

That’s why Arcam have included 32-bit DACs on the entire HDA range – the most commonly used bit-depth in digital recording – so you’re guaranteed the full aural picture of whatever the artist intended.

Plays all disc formats, including SACD, CD-A, CD-R and CD-RW

  • Supports audio file formats including FLAC, WAV, AIFF, OGG, MP3, AAC and WMA
  • USB input
  • Superb 32-bit DAC built in
  • Streaming through the music life app
  • Total harmonic distortion + noise = 0.002%

CDS50 Specifications

Technical Specifications

Formats Supported

  • FLAC, WAV, AAC, AIFF, OGG, MP3, WMA
  • SACD/CD-A/CD-R/CD-RW

Analogue Audio Output

  • Digital to Analogue conversion: 24-bit 192kHz ESS Sabre 9038 DAC
  • Signal to noise ratio: 110dB CCIR
  • Harmonic distortion (1kHz): 0.002%
  • Frequency response (±0.5dB): 10Hz–20kHz
  • Output level (0dB): 2.2Vrms
  • Output impedance: 47Ω
  • Minimum recommended load: 5kΩ

Digital interfaces

  • USB: USB 2.0 High Speed (480 Mbit/s)
  • Network: 10 BASE-T / 100 BASE-TX / Wi-Fi
  • Digital output connection: 75Ω Co-axial, Optical TOSLINK

Physical

  • Dimensions: W433 x D278 x H87mm
  • Weight: 6.2kg nett/8.5kg packed
  • Power consumption: 20W maximum
  • Digital output connection: 75Ω Co-axial, Optical TOSLINK

Perfect Partner to the Arcam SA20

Arcam New Hifi Range

Brand

Arcam

Arcam Arcam been developing and making CD players for almost 30 years, and for 40 years the descendants of the amplifier with which the company started in consumer electronics, and as far back as 1995 expanded into home cinema electronics, developing a world-class reputation for making some of the best-sounding AV electronics

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In home cinema they have also developed their own DVD players and, more recently, Blu-ray players from scratch here in the UK, engineering them using  decades of experience in CD players to ensure they play music as well as they do movies, delivering better all-round performance than other brands' products. Hard-won techniques for preserving and handling the most delicate signal and reproducing music with all its subtleties, nuances and excitement intact are now in our blood. We know that as audio moves on from CD to even higher definition formats, we're determined our products should continue to serve the music faithfully and deliver maximum enjoyment to the listener.

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