Teac HA-P50 manual

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    Z TEA C HR A udio Pla y er Music Playback Soft war e for TEA C USB A UDIO D A C Devices OWNE R ' S M ANUAL[...]

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    2 “DSD” is a registered trademark. “Direct Stream Digital” , DSD and their logos are trademarks of Sony Corporation. ASIO is a trademark and software of Steinberg Media T echnologies GmbH. Microsoft, W indows and Windows Vista are either regist ered trade - marks or trademarks of M icrosoft Corporation in the United States and/or other coun[...]

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    3 Ov er view An yone can easily enjo y high-qualit y audio file playback This Windo ws/Mac application supports playback of 11.2MHz DSD and 384kHz PCM audio files. TEAC HR Audio Pla yer , which is available for both Windows and Mac operating systems, is a high-quality audio playback application that can handle high-resolution audio files. Y ou will[...]

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    4 F eatures Easy music playback with high audio quality using suppor ted TEAC equipment Anyone will be able to enjo y the playback of high-resolution audio files simply by installing this application and using it with a UD-503 or another TEAC USB DAC device. Unlike specialized applications, this application uses very simple settings and does not re[...]

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    5 Making sett ings in Window s Installing the soft ware 1 Unc ompress the downloaded le . 2 Double- click “Setup TEA C HR Audio Play er .ex e ” to start the installation wizard. 3 Select the language to use during installation and click the “OK” button. 4 Click the “Next” button. 5 Check the c ontents of the Software License Agreemen[...]

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    6 Starting the sof tware Start this sof tware after connecting the USB DAC device. The main screen appears when TEAC HR Audio Play er is launched. Setting up the USB DA C device Select [Device] from the [Configure] menu. When the Configure window opens , set the Device item to the con - nected USB DAC (device name, et c.). This enables TEAC HR Audi[...]

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    7 Enabling playback with ev en higher audio quality Selecting the DSD decode mode With the TEAC HR Audio Player , you can choose the playback f ormat. Select [Device] from the [Configure] menu to open the [Configur e] window . Set the [Decode mode] item to [DSD over PCM] or [DSD Native], as you pref er . A T TENTION o T o play 11.2MHz DSD files whe[...]

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    8 Making settings in Mac O S Installing the soft ware 1 Unc ompress the downloaded le . 2 Double- click “Setup TEAC HR A udio Player .pkg” to start the installer . 3 Click the “ Continue ” button. 4 Select the hard disk where the software will be installed, and click the “ Con tinue” button. 5 C onfirm that the hard disk selected for[...]

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    9 Starting the sof tware Double -click the TEA C HR Audio Play er icon inside the Applications folder to launch it. NOTE: Start this sof tware after connecting the USB DAC device. The main screen appears when TEAC HR Audio Play er is launched. Deleting the soft ware If you want to delete the TEAC HR Audio Player software, delet e the TEAC HR Audio [...]

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    10 Enabling playback with ev en higher audio quality Selecting the DSD decode mode With the TEAC HR Audio Player , you can choose the playback f ormat. Select [Pref erences...] fr om the [ TEAC HR Audio Pla yer] menu to open the Pr eferences windo w . Set the [Decode mode] item to [DSD over PCM] or [DSD Native], as you pref er . A T TENTION o Selec[...]

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    11 Making sett ings Settings are made in the same way for both the Windows and Mac OS versions. In this manual, we explain these procedures using the Windows version. Preparing audio files Pr epare the audio files that y ou want for playback us ing TEAC HR Audio Play er . The playlist appears in the lower part of the main window . F irst, add the t[...]

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    12 Playing back audio files After creating a playlist, click the [PLA Y ] button to star t playback from the beginning of the list. Click the [STOP] butt on to stop playback or the [P AUSE] button to pause playback. After stopping playback with the [ST OP] button, press the [PLA Y ] button again to start playback from the beginning of the file wher[...]

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    13 Managing playlists T racks that have been added to the playlist can be saved as a playlist. This function is convenient for cr eating playlists of tracks that you play frequently . o If you do not save a playlist, it will be cleared when y ou quit TEAC HR Audio Play er . Saving playlists After adding the desired tracks to the playlist, select [S[...]

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    14 Sof t ware upd ate histor y W indows v ersion V ersion 1.0.0.12 o An installer is now used. o The UD-503 is now suppor ted. o 11.2MHz DSD files are now supported. o MP3 files with art work did not play properly sometimes. This has been fixed. V ersion 1.0.0.10 o Noise occurred when resuming playback fr om a paused state. This has been fixed. V e[...]

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    15 Sof t ware update histor y ( continued) Mac version V ersion 1.0.0.5 o An installer is now used. o The UD-503 is now suppor ted. o 11.2MHz DSD files are now supported. o OS X Y osemite (10.10) is now supported. V ersion 1.0.0.4 o Support has been added for the HA-P90SD and HR-S101 amplifier (AI-101DA). V ersion 1.0.0.2 o Support has been added f[...]