Rega Saturn User manual

WARNING
To prevent fire or shock hazard, do not expose the unit to rain or
moisture.
To avoid electrical shock, do not separate the top and bottom case
halves. Refer the servicing to qualified Rega dealers only.
The laser component in this product is capable of emitting radiation exceeding the
limit for Class 1.
CLASS 1
LASER PRODUCT
This appliance is classified as a CLASS 1 LASER product.
This label is located inside the unit.
CAUTION - INVISIBLE LASER RADIATION WHEN OPEN AND INTERLOCKS DEFEATED. AVOID
EXPOSURE TO BEAM.
VORSICHT! - UNSICHTBARE LASERSTRAHLUNG TRITT AUS. WENN DECKEL GEÖFFNET UND
WENN SICHERHEITSVERRIEGELUNG ÜBERBRUCKT IST. NICHT DEM STRAHL
AUSSETZEN!
VARNING - OSYNLIG LASERSTRÅLNING NÅR DENNA DEL ÅR URKOPPLAD. STRÅLEN ÅR FARLIG.
ADVARSEL - USYNLIG LASERSTRÅLING VED ÅBNING NÅR
SIKKERHEDSAFBRYDERE ER UDE AF FUNKTION. UNDGÅ UDSÆTTELSE FOR
STRÅLING.
ATTENTION - RAYONNEMENT LASER ET ELECTROMAGNETIQUE DANGEREUX SI OUVERT AVEC
L'ENCLENCHEMENT DE SECURITE ANNULE.
VARO! - AVATTAESSA JA SUOJALUKITUS OHITETTAESSA OLET ALTTINA NÄKYMÄTTÖMÄLLE
LASERSÄTEILYLLE. ÄLÄ KATSO SÄTEESEEN.
ADVARSEL - USYNLIG LASERSTRÄLING NÄR DEKSEL ÄPNES OG SIKKERHEDSLÄS BRYTES.
UNNGÄ EKSPONERING FOR STRÄLEN.
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Contents
The Story.................................................................................2
Design Innovation..............................................................3
Installation................................................................4
Interconnects..................................................................4
Output Connections............................................................5
In Use................................................................................6-9
Additional CD Functions.................................................10-16
The handling of CD’s............................................................17
Care of the Player.................................................................18
Troubleshooting..................................................19-21
Specifications...........................................................22
Owners Log...........................................................................23
Mission Statement
Rega's philosophy is to make high quality products at sensible prices, as a means
of reproducing music as faithfully as possible. Rega is committed to the design
and development of new and existing products, both in hi-fi and other areas, that
will perpetuate Rega's values of quality and value for money.
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The story
To the best of our understanding, there have only ever been five large multinational
companies with the technology and knowledge base to develop the remarkably complex
operating software for CD players.
Development of this software and chip-sets to operate CD transports was generally
curtailed around eight to ten years ago. All development effort was directed towards the
design of DVD players and other advanced formats.
Rega and other specialist Hi Fi manufacturers were totally reliant on companies like Sony
and Phillips to supply transports and their operating chip-sets.
In 2003 Sony stopped supply and sent the specialist Hi Fi industry into a flurry of activity
in search of feasible alternatives. Many manufacturers were able to resource their supply
from Far Eastern companies.
Rega has worked hard in locating a British software company who were in the
development of a totally new disc operating system. A system, which was highly
advanced, even in the early development stages.
Rega is the only manufacturer to develop the unique new disc operating system. Due to
ever increasing computer processing power and memory fabrication it has been possible
to build in an enormous amount of memory capacity. This has allowed the data retrieval
to meet the original CD 'Red Book' specifications without compromise to the musical
performance. All previous chip-sets were unable to achieve this due to their limited
memory and signal processing capacity.
Rega's new British designed chip set contains over 20MB of memory with 32 bit digital
signal processing capacity and Rega has used this computing power to give a far greater
musical performance.
We hope you enjoy this very special CD player; we have spent a very long time creating
it, drawing on all of our 32 years of experience in specialist Hi Fi manufacturing.
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Design Innovation
Rega were the last major specialist hi-fi manufacturer to make a CD
player. We have used this time to observe the development of this
medium.
This has encouraged us to develop our own product that comes from
our own philosophies concerning sound quality, reliability and value
for money.
The Saturn CD player has a unique sound that harmonises with the
rest of our products and is in contrast to the tonal qualities of most
players.
Our proven top loading design remains for several reasons. Firstly,
complex motorised tray mechanisms are vulnerable to wear and
therefore a cause of unreliability. Secondly, the use of our underslung
transport location allows service engineers immediate access to the
next most unreliable part of any CD player (the laser diode
assembly).
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Installation
Ensure the operating voltage of the Saturn (stated on the rear) is the
same as that of your local power supply.
The Saturn will work well on most surfaces, such as a shelf, table,
stand, or wall bracket.
The Saturn should be placed to allow adequate access to the lid and
aperture. If access is limited there is a danger of scratching the CD
when placing it on the ball chuck system.
Interconnects
An interconnect is included with your Saturn CD player, which
provides entirely satisfactory performance.
Audiophiles may wish to upgrade to a more exotic interconnect at a
later stage, such as Rega's Couple.
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Output Connections
Outputs are made via RCA (Phono) type connector and the ‘Tos-link’
optical connection. The sockets on the REGA products are clearly
marked to help identify them.
Line Out: For output to an audio amplifier.
Right: Always the lower row and marked in RED.
Left: Always the upper row and marked in WHITE.
CAUTION: SOME AMPLIFIERS AND INTERCONNECTS HAVE BLACK COLOUR
CODING FOR THE LEFT CHANNEL.
Digital Out: for output to digital components such as D.A converter,
digital processor, DAT, or MD.
Always check that the connecting component is compatible with
44.1k coaxial S/PDIF input)
IMPORTANT: ALWAYS TURN OFF THE PLAYER WHEN CHANGING LEADS.
Rear Panel Connections
RIGHT CHANNEL OPTICAL
OUT IEC
LINE OUT White
Red Black
5
LEFT CHANNEL
DIGITAL
OUT
Fuse
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Powering up
Press the power switch on the front panel, the power indication LED
on the power switch will illuminate and the display shows ‘REGA
sATURN’
If there is a disc in the player it will initialise it.
If there is no disc in the player, “NO DISC” is displayed.
In Use
Apollo
Power switch and
power indicator
Lid
Display Track previous
Track next
Play/Pause
Stop
Finger Lift
Remote
sensor
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Saturn
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Loading a disc.
Turn on - with lid closed display shows "REGA saturn".
Open lid and place CD onto three point ball chuck.
Close lid and wait for the player to initialise the disc (initialisation
can take up to 12 seconds) this checks to see if it's MP3, WMA,
CDA and WAV. (The Saturn locks out both remote and keypad
functions whilst initialising the disc until track 1 total time is
displayed.)
The display will then show the contents of the disc.
CDA’s will show - Total tracks, total time and CD symbol followed
by track 1 and time
MP3’s will show - Total tracks, total albums and MP3 followed by
track 1 album 1 and zero time.
1. 2. 3.
6.
5.
TRACK SECMINCD
000000000.00
RANDOM PROGRAM REPEAT 1
4.
7. 8. 10.
9.
15.
14.13.12.11.
20.
19.18.17.16.
Play
Symbol
Pause
Symbol
Shuffle
Mode
Program
Mode
CD information
Track
Number
Time Music Calendar
7
888888888.888
Repeat
Mode
MP3 / WMA
information
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3. WMA - Total tracks, total albums and WMA followed by track 1
album 1 and zero time, spinning to remove the disc.
4. Combination - Total tracks, total albums and MP3/WMA followed
by track 1 album 1 and zero time.
All functions will show the music calendar however it will depend on
the disc loaded into the player to what this means.
1. CDA - Total number of Tracks on CD.
2. MP3 or WMA - Total number of track in the current album
Playing or pausing the Disc.
After disc has been initialised select play function on either the
remote or front panel. The disc will start playing from track 1 of the
first album on the disc regardless of disc content.
The Display will show -
1. The word PLAY will appear briefly showing it is about to play the
track.
2. MP3 and WMA will show the name of the track and track number.
3. The play symbol will then appear.
4. The track number and time played. It will also show the Album
number if MP3 or WMA was initialised.
NB: If playing CDR’s they must be recorded at no greater than 8x as we cannot
guarantee the readability of the disc.
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Once playing the CD you can then activate the Pause function by
pressing the pause button on the remote or pressing play/pause
button on the front panel.
Pause will then hold track position until the play button is pressed
on either the remote or front panel.
Once play is activated again the display shows all information about
the track and will continue to play from held position.
Stopping the player
Pressing the stop button on either the remote or front panel will stop
the current action and return the player back to track 1 of album 1.
Whilst in ‘stopping mode’ the player locks out all other functions.
Track Previous
When pressed while the disc is playing, the current track will start
again from the beginning.
Pressing again in quick succession will take you to the start of the
previous track.
Track Next
Pressing once while the disc is playing, the next track will start from
the beginning. Pressing again takes you to the beginning of the next
track after that, etc.......
If the TRACK buttons are pressed in pause and stop modes, a
specific track can be selected, and when the PLAY button is pressed
the selected track will start from the beginning.
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3
456
789
0
10
Prog
Shuffle Repeat
Display
Eject I/P2
I/P1
Text
-10 +10
>100
Time
ClearCheck
>10 (for tracks above 9)
Numeric Keypad
Track previous
Album down
Track next
Play
Album up
Program
Stop
Pause
Display on/off
Eject* Input 2*
Input 1*
Repeat
Search forwards
Search backwards
Shuffle
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Additional CD Functions
(Activated by the Remote)
-10 tracks +10 tracks
Clear Time
* - Functions/Buttons
incorporated for any
possible future
designs not active on
the Saturn.
Check
Text >100 (for tracks above 99)
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Remote Functions
Play, pause, stop, track previous, and track next
The PLAY and PAUSE buttons on the Remote Control are the same
as PLAY/PAUSE on the front panel except they have been
separated.
Stop, track previous, and track next work in the same way as on the
front panel of the player. (See pages 8 & 9.)
Search Back, Search Forward
Pressing the SEARCH BACK / SEARCH FORWARD buttons in play
mode, plays the disc at high speed, allowing you to find a specific
position in a track.
In pause mode, the track is scanned at a higher speed without
playing music.
To stop the search press the SEARCH BACK / SEARCH FORWARD
button again.
Numeric Keys
You can start from the beginning of a desired track by pressing the
corresponding NUMERIC KEY. If the track number is greater than 9
press >10 button followed by the number (ie for 15 press >10 then 1
then 5) if the track number is greater than 99 press >100 button
followed by the numbers you require (ie for 105 press >100 then 1
followed by 0and 5)
Once you have entered the track number press play to start the track.
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When the disc is played in...
Continuous Play
Shuffle Play
Program play (see page 15)
The Saturn repeats...
Track / Album / Disc
Track / Disc
Program Again
Shuffle
To play tracks in a random order press SHUFFLE then press PLAY.
To play tracks in a random order whilst in play mode, press the
SHUFFLE button once. ‘SHUFFLING’ will be displayed and ‘RANDOM’
will be highlighted, the tracks will be played in a sequence generated
by the player.
To cancel shuffle play, press the SHUFFLE button again. Play will
continue in the discs original sequence, after current track being
played has finished.
Repeat
To repeat track, album or disc press the repeat button until the
mode is selected.
Pressing the repeat button in quick succession will toggle between
the various repeat functions.
NB: Please give the Saturn enough time to process the
information each time a new or different function is selected.
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Display information while playing a disc.
While Playing a disc, the display shows the current track number,
playing time, and the music calendar.
The track numbers in the music calendar disappear after they are
played.
The ‘TEXT’ button on the remote can be pressed to show information
on WMA and MP3 files.
Turning off the display
Pressing the ‘Display’ button on the remote once will turn off the
display pressing it again will turn it back on.
1. 2. 3. 4.
6. 7. 8.
5.
9. 10.
10
TRACK SECMIN
37.18
2.39
1
Current track
number Track playing time
Music calendar
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Displaying remaining track time
Checking the remaining playing time of the track is done by
pressing the TIME button on the remote whilst the CD is
playing.
This button can be used to alternate between the track playing
time and the remaining playing time of the track.
NB: The ‘TIME’ function does not work for MP3 or WMA files.
1. 2. 3. 4.
6. 7. 8.
5.
9. 10.
10
TRACK SECMIN
1.39
Track remaining playing
time
Track number Music calendar
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Creating a program
The program function allows you to program up to 99 tracks from a
disc or album in any order you specify.
1) Press PROGRAM to create your new program list. ”PROGRAM”
will appear on the display.
2) When the first programme location appears you can enter the
required track number, continue this until your program is complete
up to a maximum of 99 locations.
3) Use the >10 and >100 buttons to enter track numbers above 9 and
99.
1. 2. 3. 4.
6. 7. 8.
5.
9. 10.
10
TRACK SECMIN
37.18
23.18
Track number
programmed
Memory location number
PROGRAM
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Creating a Program (continued)
4) If you enter the wrong track number it can be deleted by pressing
the clear button. This will clear the last location entered.
5) Press ‘program’ again to finish programming. The display will now
show ‘ACCEPTED’.
6) Pressing PLAY will activate your programme.
7) If program is pressed again you can enter further tracks from the
last location in your program. This can be done either when the
Saturn is playing your program or when stopped.
8) To clear your programs make sure the Saturn has stopped then
press the clear button.
The display now shows the first track that was entered into your
program.
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The handling of CD’s
To keep the CD clean, handle by its edge only. Do not touch the
surface; natural oils from skin can stop the laser from reading the disc
accurately.
Do not expose the disc to bright sunlight, or leave near hot places
such as electrical equipment or in a parked car. Excess heat can
cause the disc to warp.
Do not use any cleaning fluids or anti-static sprays on the disc, they
can damage the disc and the player.
Store the disc in its case when not in use to prevent it from becoming
scratched.
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Care of the Player
Do not touch the lens or electronic parts inside the player, it is a very
sensitive optical device and is easily damaged.
If dirt gets on the lens, the player may not work.
Do not attempt to clean the lens or lubricate in any way. Fluids
and abrasive materials could easily damage the lens. Your
REGA dealer will be trained in cleaning this component, but
provided you take care with your player, it should not need any
servicing.
Do not leave the lid open, as dust will get into the player and onto the
lens.
Do not drop objects into the player. If any objects fall into the player,
switch off and disconnect from the mains supply immediately, and
contact your REGA dealer. Do not open the case or stick implements
into it to retrieve the item.
If you are not going to use the player for a long time, we recommend
that you switch it off.
Always pull the plug itself when disconnecting from the wall socket,
never the cord.
WARNING
Misuse of the player could invalidate your Rega warranty.
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Troubleshooting
(No power, power switch LED does not light up)
Is the mains supply
connected and the socket
switched on?
Is the front panel on/off
switch fully depressed?
Has the fuse in the mains
plug blown? (Plug in another
appliance to check)
Is the mains socket
live? (Plug in another
appliance to check)
Contact your Rega dealer
Correct the fault
Correct the
fault (Contact your
Rega Dealer if it
appears faulty)
Replace fuse in
plug
Check household
fuses or contact an
electrician!
NO
NO
NO
NO
YES
YES
YES
YES
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