-Yamaha CDS300 CD Player

The Yamaha CD-S300 CD Player, Inheriting many of the sound quality features of the S2000/S1000 Series components, this Yamaha CDS 300 CD player delivers sound that will satisfy devoted music fans. In addition to CDs, it also provides high quality play of music files stored on digital audio players like iPod or USB memory devices via a USB port on the front panel.

The Yamaha CD S300 provides the same Pure Direct feature that is a popular feature of Yamaha amplifiers and receivers. Pressing the button on the front panel or on the remote control shuts down the digital audio output and turns off the display. This achieves the lowest possible noise interference and thus highest sound quality of the analogue audio output.

Yamaha technicians devoted a great deal of time and effort to designing the overall interior layout of parts and circuit boards, a factor that significantly affect sound quality. As a result, the power supplies for the motor drive, display and USB sections, as well as the digital, and analogue sections are individually isolated, eliminating electromagnetic interference among them. To achieve ideal weight balance for stable performance, the drive mechanism is located in the centre of the unit.

Each of the individual elements in a CD player influences the sound quality, which is why Yamaha puts a great deal of effort into the selection and matching of parts and materials. Three examples in the Yamaha CD-S300 CD Player are a highgrade acoustic capacitor, a new low-noise, high-gain bandwidth op amp, and the use of damping material under the transformer and around the signal cables. In short, this CD player's internal sophistication is on a level generally found on much more expensive models.

The Yamaha CDS300 CD Player, Utilising a Burr Brown 192kHz/24-bit DAC, the high performance D/A conversion system takes full advantage of the digital technology refined by Yamaha over a period of many years, ensuring excellent conversion precision, S/N ratio and dynamic range.

Using a USB cable, you can plug your iPod into the USB port to enjoy your music library via your audio system. The digital signal is sent to the CD player with no degradation and then converted to analogue by the high performance DAC, and transmitted to the amplifier by the high quality audio circuitry, so you hear your music at the highest possible quality. As iPod or USB audio data input from the USB port can be also output by digital out terminals (optical or coaxial), digital signals can be transmitted as is to amps or audio systems with digital inputs.* You can use the remote control to command the play, pause, skip and forward/backward functions, and song, artist and album names will be displayed. Compatible iPods are the iPod classic (including 120GB classic), iPod nano (2nd Gen., 3rd Gen., 4th Gen.) and iPod touch (1st Gen. and 2nd Gen.). When the power is on and USB mode is and USB mode is selected, the iPod charges utomatically.

Pure Direct

Extremely sophisticated circuitry and layout

Short signal paths

High quality parts

High performance DAC for high conversion precision with low noise

Laser pickup floating mechanism

Intelligent Digital Servo

MP3 and WMA compatibility

USB port on front panel for iPod and other devices

iPod compatibility

CD-R/RW disc playback compatibility

Numerous convenient playback functions