Classe Audio CDP-300 User Manual

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Rear Panel
Analog Outputs
In most installations, you will want to use both the analog and the digital 
outputs of the CDP-300. Doing so will allow you to take full advantage 
of high resolution multichannel formats such as DVD-Audio, while also 
passing the multichannel digital output to your A/V preamplifier when 
that is more appropriate.
The front left and right channels are supported with both balanced analog 
outputs on XLR connectors and single-ended analog outputs on RCA 
connectors.
using the balanced outputs
If your processor has balanced inputs for the front left and right channels, 
connect these XLR outputs to them using high quality balanced 
interconnects. Your Classé dealer can provide assistance in selecting 
appropriate balanced cables for your system.
Balanced audio interconnections were originally developed in the 
professional audio world, for preserving the delicate nuances of extremely 
small microphone-level signals. For many years now, they have also been 
used by performance-oriented consumer companies like Classé to preserve 
every nuance of the finest audio performances in your collection.
Technically, balanced audio interconnections provide two distinct benefits: 
they double the signal’s strength as it travels from one component to the 
next, increasing the potential signal to noise ratio by 6 dB; they also do an 
excellent job of rejecting noise and interference that might otherwise be 
picked up between the components, due to either EMI (electromagnetic 
interference) or RFI (radio frequency interference). In our modern world 
of wireless telecommunications, there is more potential interference 
floating around us than ever before—it makes sense to keep it all out of 
our music and movie soundtracks.