C 538 Compact Disc Player

NEW IN BOX FULL WARRANTY

NAD has an enviable reputation for creating great
sounding products at very affordable prices and nowhere is this more
evident than in NAD’s CD Players. NAD’s veteran engineers know exactly
where to spend just a little extra money for a better quality part, in
order to extract the very best sound from the Compact Disc. CD Players
use mechanical, digital, and analog technology to produce sound, and
all three forms of engineering greatly affect the end result and
require careful design and engineering.

NAD has an enviable reputation for creating great sounding products at
very affordable prices and nowhere is this more evident than in NAD’s
CD Players. NAD’s veteran engineers know exactly where to spend just a
little extra money for a better quality part, in order to extract the
very best sound from the Compact Disc. CD Players use mechanical,
digital, and analog technology to produce sound, and all three forms of
engineering greatly affect the end result and require careful design
and engineering.

A solid mechanical foundation is paramount in
reducing external vibration and providing precise location of the CD
drive mechanism. This allows smooth operation and a minimum of tracking
errors. Heavy gauge steel and non-resonant plastic moldings are
carefully engineered to provide optimum results. The transport is
mounted on reinforced steel rails and over 30 fasteners are used to
lock the assembly together and maintain precise dimensional integrity.

Precise clocking of the digital data stream allows
the Wolfson 24 bit DAC to provide accurate linearity for the PCM data
conversion to analog waveform. Audio OP Amps buffer the output without
adding noise or distortion to the music. Multi-layer PCBs using surface
mount components allow for an enhanced circuit layout with very short
signal paths. Powering these elements is a custom designed active power
supply that provides multiple regulated voltages to the transport,
digital circuits, analog circuits, and the control and display
circuits. The result of this careful engineering is a sound that is at
once both detailed and natural, with dramatic dynamic contrasts.

The NAD C 538 includes many desirable features
that enhance listening pleasure. Front panel controls are duplicated on
the hand held remote allowing Play, Pause, Skip, and Scan functions.
In addition, many more features are available from the remote handset,
such as RANDOM: Tracks/files are played at random mode, PROGRAM: Enter
or exit program mode, REPEAT: Track, file, folder or whole disc is
repeated, RPT A-B: Playback sequence is repeated. The dimmable dot
matrix display shows tracks, total playing time. Track time, disc time,
and remaining time are all available. The C 538 also can play
CD-R/CD-RW discs allowing you to burn songs from your computer for
playback on your CD Playing system.

Because these songs are encoded in MP3 or WMA
format, you can fit up to 10 hours of music on a single disc which is
great for party mixes and ambient listening. There are also both
optical and coaxial digital outputs that allow connection to an
external DAC or digital component (like an AVR) to provide the most
efficient and best sounding system setups.

Although music downloads and streaming continue to grow in popularity,
CDs are still the primary listening source for millions of people
around the world. NAD continues to innovate and improve its CD Players
to get improved performance while keeping prices low. Whether you are
creating your first home system, or upgrading your current CD Player,
you should consider NAD’s 45 year record of excellence, and its
commitment to music lovers everywhere,
when selecting a new player.

GENERAL PARAMETERS

• Output level


• Analog: 2.2 ± 0.1 V


• Frequency response


• ±0.5 dB (ref. 0 dB 20 Hz-20 kHz)


• Total harmonic distortion


• ≤0.01% (ref. 1 kHz, Audio LPF)c


• Signal-to-Noise Ratio


• ≥110 dB (ref. 1 kHz, A-weighted)


• Channel balance


• ±0.5 dB (ref. 0dB 1kHz)


• Channel separation


• -4.6 ±0.8 dB (ref. 0dB 1 kHz, 5 kHz)


• -9.0 ±1.0 dB (ref. 0dB 1 kHz, 16 kHz)


• Standby power


• <0.5W


• Idle power


• <7.5W

DIMENSION AND WEIGHT

• Gross dimensions (W x H x D)


• 435 x 70 x 249 mm (Gross)*


• 17 3/16 x 2 13/16 x 9 13/16 inches


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