Arcam FMJ-DV27a

The Famed Arcam Full Metal Jacket DV27A DVD player. Beautiful used condition in original packing. Please see the pictures. 4 ring marks on the top surface from other components. Very faint.
First DVD player in the FMJ Range Based on the award winning DiVA DV88 DVD player Sil503 Silicon Image de-interlacer for stunning progressive scan video output Wolfson WM8740 audio DACs for superior sound Dual toroid transformer power supply Outstanding audio and video quality The
DV27 DVD player was designed in the UK by the Arcam team of specialists
in video and audio electronics. They were set a demanding brief to
produce a class leading DVD player to complement Arcams existing FMJ
range of high end electronics. It had to play music CDs to the same
level of quality as a dedicated CD player and also meet the highest
standards for its performance on video and movie sound track replay.
The
DV27 incorporates many innovative features, such as the use of dual
power supplies, with a frequency locked switch mode supply for the
digital electronics and separate linear supplies for the sensitive
analogue circuitry. The twin mains transformers are both toroidal types
for high efficiency and low radiated magnetic field. A vibration damped 3
layer Sontech chassis and 8mm solid aluminum faceplate add considerable
mechanical integrity to the design as well as helping the overall
performance of the player.
Two
separate multi bit sigma delta Wolfson WM8740 audio DAC's are used in
differential mono mode, with one DAC handling each stereo channel. Each
DAC can operate up to 24bits, 192 kHz sampling rate, for future
compatibility with DVD-Audio and has its own separately regulated DC
supply. These, and the analogue filters and output stages, all receive
their DC power supplies via a separate dedicated low noise toroidal
mains transformer. This arrangement improves upon the acknowledged high
standard of audio playback already available in Arcam's award winning
DiVA series DV88 DVD player, launched in September 2000.
As
in the DV88, great care has been taken to reduce the high levels of
jitter seen in many DVD players. The DV27 uses two audio clocks and an
asynchronous master video clock, all derived from separate crystal
oscillators, to ensure excellent jitter performance. (Nearly all DVD
players derive the audio clocks from the video oscillator at 27MHz and
commonly suffer from poor jitter.) The coaxial SPDIF (digital) audio
output uses a high bandwidth coupling transformer to provide the
cleanest possible signal to an external decoder.
The
DV27 supports the major analogue interlaced video connection standards,
with component, RGB, S-VHS and composite outputs. All video signal
paths use the best quality video op-amps instead of transistors for
superior bandwidth and distortion. Additionally, state of the art
progressive scan video output is provided for use with suitable
projectors and other display devices. The progressive scan decoder
board, designed and built by Arcam, uses Silicon Image's SiI503 motion
adaptive de-interlacer chipset, with DVDO Pure Progressive@ technology -
this is arguably the most advanced solution available on the market
today and is visibly superior to the de-interlacers incorporated into
all currently available Japanese DVD players. The SiI503 uses advanced
algorithms for 2:3 pulldown and video mode detection, coupled with 4
field storage of video and sophisticated motion interpolation, to
deliver top quality artifact free progressive scan digital video even
under adverse conditions. This is converted back to analogue video with
an Analog Devices ADV7196 triple 11 bit video DAC running at a sampling
rate of 54 MHz, and is followed with top quality wide bandwidth video
buffers for the Y, Pr and Pb component video outputs, to ensure state of
the art video quality. This chipset supports both 480p and 576p video
standards and YUV to RGB transcoding. To comply with current licensing
standards only 480p YUV is available, but the player will in principle
be able to provide the other types of output via a firmware upgrade
should this be appropriate in future.
The
player is designed to playback regular DVD-Video discs and CDs as well
as CD-R and CD-RW discs. It will also playback HDCD and some MP3 encoded
CDs.
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