Cambridge Audio NP30 manual

- Y our music + our passion NP30 ENGLISH Network Play er User’s manual 2[...]

2 Thank you for purchasing your Sonata NP30 Network Music Play er. We are confident that you will enjoy many years of listening pleasure from it. Like all Cambridge Au dio products the Sonata NP30 adher es t o three core principl es – stunning performance, ease of use and incredible value. The Sona ta NP30 can ac cess a wide ran ge of audio fr o[...]

3 NP30 ENGLISH For your own safety please r ead the following impor tant safety instru ctions careful ly before attempting to conne ct this unit to the ma ins power supply. They wil l a lso enable you to get the be st p er f ormance from and pr olong t he life of the unit: 1. Read these instructions. 2. Keep these instructions. 3. Heed all warnings[...]

4 V entilation IMPORT ANT – The unit will become hot when in use. Do not stack multipl e uni ts o n top of e ach othe r . Do no t pl ace in a n en closed are a s uch as a bookcase or in a cabinet without sufficient ventilation. Ens ure tha t small o bject s d o not fal l t hrough a ny ven tilat ion gri lle. If t his hap pens, swi tch of f im med[...]

5 NP30 ENGLISH Cambridge Audio warrants this product to be free fr om defects in materials and workmanship (subject t o the t erms set forth below). Cambridge Audio will repair or replace (at Cambridge Audio’s option) this pr oduct or any defective parts in this product. W arranty periods may v ar y fr om country to country. If in doubt consult y[...]

6 On Off Pow er Pow er AC www.cambridge-audio.com Pow er Rating: 100-2 40V AC ~ 50/60Hz Rated P owe r Consumption: 21W Designed and engineered in London, England Sonata NP30 Network Pla yer L R Tos link Optical S/P DIF Co-axial For local media Ethernet USB Aud io Out Digital Outputs 12V Tip +ve Tr i gger In 1 2 3 4 6 7 8 5 Pow er On/Off Switches th[...]

7 NP30 ENGLISH USB Use to connect a USB storage device or another por table de vice containing music files. 500mA maximum current consumption. Standby/On When po wering up from standb y the Standby/On LED will flash appr oximately once a second as the unit boots up , the display will initially be blank before 'Star ting…' appears. Not[...]

8 Remot e control Important! The default mode for the re mote allows combined contr ol of the NP30 and Cambridge Audio Azur range am plifiers. The r emote can be set to cont r ol t he Cambr idge Audio Sona ta range receiv ers (AR30 /DR3 0) or Cambri dge Audi o A/V Receivers inst ead. See later section on this page. Standby/On Swi tches the N P30 b[...]

9 NP30 ENGLISH Basic connections Network connections Be fo re you can use yo ur NP 30 fo r iRa dio /Str ea min g yo u must h av e th e fo llo wing : • A broad band inte rnet c onnect ion ( such as A DSL) to a sui table inte rnet service provider (ISP). • A network conn ection eithe r wirelessl y via 802.11b/g or n Wi-F i or wired Ethernet conne[...]

Connecting to a wireless netw ork Plac e the NP30 in range of y our wirele ss networ k (usu ally 10 -30m of a s uitab le wireless transmitter , although this is af f ected by walls and the construction of your building) and turn it on, via the back panel switch and then on the front panel. The NP 30 will a utomati cally co nnect a nd obta in an IP [...]

11 NP30 ENGLISH Media UPnP Ser vers Local Media Queue UPnP is by far the pref erred method as it allows for br owsing by artist, album and other metho ds, has s upport for contro l fro m W i-Fi c ontr oller a nd the media can be shared amongst several de vices. UPnP ser vers Y our NP30 can connect with Computers or Network Attached Storage devices [...]

12 Alphameric Search This is a search function menu inser ted by the NP30 into the br owse tree of UPnP servers that suppor t an ext ernal search function. Where available you can select Alphameric search and then enter the name or partial name of an album or track you wish to find. Simply select each character in order using the Navigation/Select[...]

Presets The NP30 suppor ts 20 pr esets. These ca n be UuV ol Radio stations or st reams from most Streaming Services. UPnP/Local media cannot be set as a preset.. T o add a station/stream to a preset first select that stream for playback in the normal way . Now press the button this will bring up the presets menu. Sel ect the prese t l ocati on yo[...]

14 Enter the networ k name This option allows the NP30 t o sear ch f or and connect to a particular netw ork name only . T ype your network name in using the alphanumeric entry screen. If no matching network is f ound 'Network not f ound' will be display ed. View Config Thi s me nu fi rstly di splays the IP mo de (st atic or d ynamic ). [...]

15 NP30 ENGLISH Wired/Wireless connection It is possible t o connect y our NP30 t o your network via an a vailable Ethernet connection (RJ45) or via a Wi-Fi router . By default the unit is in AUT O mode, each time you turn the unit it lo oks fo r t he presen ce of a wired connectio n, and tries t o use this, if none is present or it cannot connect [...]

16 T echnical specifications DA C Wolfson WM8 728 24 bit 96kHz capable THD+N 0.003% @ 1kHz F requency Response 20Hz-20kHz +/- 0.2dB Signal to Noise ratio > 95dB T otal correlated jitter <200pS Digital outputs* ** S/PDIF Co-axial and TOSLink Optical 1 6-24 Bits, 32-96kHz Audio Formats** WA V containing uncompressed PCM 1 6-24 bit 32-96kHz FLAC[...]

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