Sony SCD-XA5400ES SACD Player – Black

Here we have a high quality Super Audio Compact Disc player from Japanese company Sony. Our example of the SCD-XA5400ES is in good condition noting some minor blemishes – please refer to photographs. It is supplied in all original packaging along with remote control, manuals, mains cable, interconnect cable, spare drive belt plus our usual three month warranty.
Sony Said….
In 1985, the engineers of Sony ES surprised the world of high fidelity. The Sony CDP-650ES was the world’s first CD transport with a digital output, enabling unheard-of sound quality and unprecedented flexibility in audio system configuration.
In 2008, the engineers of Sony ES have done it again. The SCD-XA5400ES is Sony’s first Super Audio CD player to provide an uncompressed digital output via HDMI for the Super Audio CD’s Direct Stream Digital™ signal with H.A.T.S.. This is a HDMI digital output, compatible not only with Sony’s own STR-DA6400ES receiver, but also with latest generation of
outboard D/A converters from other high-end audio companies. In this way, the Sony SCD-XA5400ES helps deliver Super Audio CD sound with effortless clarity, transparency, impact and presence.
For owners who will connect the player to conventional receivers and amplifiers, Sony has equipped the SCD-XA5400ES with a six separate SA DAC chips that deliver the precision of 12 DACs. With either digital or analogue outputs, the SCD-XA5400ES establishes a new and altogether higher standard in music reproduction.
Specifications:
Frequency Response: 2 Hz to 20 kHz (CD), 2 Hz to 50 kHz (SACD)
Dynamic Range: 100 dB (CD), 110 dB (SACD)
Total Harmonic Distortion: 0.0017% (CD), 0.0012% (SACD)
Analogue Out Un-Balanced –
Jack Type: Phono Jacks
Output Level: 2 Vrms (at 50 kilohms)
Load Impedance: Over 10 kilohms
Analogue Out Balanced –
Jack Type: XLR
Output Level: 2 Vrms (at 50 kilohms)
Load Impedance: Over 600 ohms
HDMI –
Jack Type: HDMI
Digital Out (CD) Optical –
Jack Type: Square optical output connector
Output Level: – 18 dBm
Load Impedance: (Light emitting wave length: 660 nm)
Digital Out (CD) Coaxial –
Jack Type: Coaxial Output Connector
Output Level: 0.5 Vp-p
Load Impedance: 75 ohms
Phones –
Jack Type: Stereo phone jack
Output Level: 5 mV
Load Impedance: 32 ohms
Power Requirements: 230 V AC, 50/60 Hz
Power Consumption: 25 W; 0.5 W (Standby)
Dimensions: 430 (W) x 390 (D) x 124 (H) mm
Weight: 10.2 kg

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