Sony SCD-XE670 User Manual

• Super Audio CD is a new high-quality audio

disc standard where music is recorded in the
DSD (Direct Stream Digital) format
(conventional CDs are recorded in the PCM
format). The DSD format, using a sampling
frequency 64 times higher than that of a
conventional CD, and with 1-bit
quantization, achieves both a wide frequency
range and a wide dynamic range across the
audible frequency range, and so provides
music reproduction extremely faithful to the
original sound.

• The Super Audio CD has two types; a 2

channel stereo disc and a Multi-channel disc
which holds up to 6 independent channels.
The multi-channel characteristic of the Super
Audio CD features a speaker allocation
system basically similar to the 5.1 channel
output of current AV systems.

This player is designed to play back 2-channel
and multi-channel Super Audio CDs, and
conventional CDs, and provides the following
features:

• Mounted with a Discrete Dual Laser Optical

Pickup, capable of reading a Super Audio
CD or conventional CD depending on the
exclusive wavelength.

• Quicker track access performance enabled by

an advanced servo mechanism.

• A Multi-Channel Management function that

allows you to adjust the multi-channel
playback environment according to the
allocation and size of your speakers.

• A Super Audio D/A Converter and Direct

Digital Sync System, which allows higher-
quality sound reproduction.

• A Super Audio CD can mark up to 255 track

numbers.  This feature applies to SCD-
XE670.

• The supplied remote is capable of controlling

both the SCD-XE670 and a conventional
Sony CD player.

Front Panel ................................................ 4
Rear Panel ................................................. 4
Remote Control ......................................... 5

Checking the supplied accessories ............ 6
Inserting Batteries Into the Remote .......... 6
Hooking Up the System ............................ 6

Compatible Disc Types ............................. 9
Playing a Disc ......................................... 10
Using the Display .................................... 11
Locating a Specific Track ....................... 14
Locating a Particular Point in a Track .... 15
Playing Tracks Repeatedly ...................... 16
Playing Tracks in Random Order (Shuffle

Play) .................................................. 17

Creating Your Own Programme

(Programme Play) ............................. 18

Listening to a Multi-channel Super Audio

CD (Multi-channel management
function) ........................................... 19

Precautions .............................................. 23
Notes on Discs ........................................ 24
Troubleshooting ...................................... 25
Specifications .......................................... 25