Philips cd650 manual

I even demo picking up the unit and shaking it vertically as well as horizontally while a CD was being played - you would not heard any skips etc aka as if it was place on a iso-platform. That's 's quality for you!!! Someone else I know with a Marantz CD50 had to place the unit on a self-made iso-platform using springs to produce similar results. I realised I did not mention the following. I used a Philips BC 0. This website is not affiliated with or sponsored by Philips.

To purchase CD spares or accessories, please contact the company via their website or visit an authorised retailer. Gallery Requests Search. Reviewed Mar 12th, by emir a very good player indeed just need some more refinement to be among the best. Submitted by Resistor value on July 24th, Audibly it softens the sound, as one might expect, and the whole idea seems on the face of it to be an expensive and unnecessary pandering to the subjective assessment critics.

However, as a top Philips man who requested anonymity explained, "several manufacturers have made a lot of money doing similar things to past Philips models with the aid of those same subjective assessors, so why shouldn't we get in on the act? Additional features The additional operational features provided on the CD are considerable, in one case unique, and they are centred on a fold-out numeric keypad normally concealed at the right side of the front panel, above the headphone jack and its volume control.

First of all, this allows one to start with a particular track, or even at an index number within a track, with a minimum of effort and concentration, for the illuminated display has its indications extended to guide you along.

A little more effort you have to remember to press one button twice will enable you to start at a selected time within one second. Other little niceties are also now to be found on the main control panel; Repeat, A to B repeat, Scan ten seconds from each track and a selector switch enabling you to limit play to a single track, to insert a four second pause between tracks an invitation to copy discs on to cassette recorders with the AMS facility? The novel feature which I have not used before is FTSfavourite track selection; this enables one to make a choice of desired tracks from a disc and instruct the machine to memorize that choice so that, if you want to repeat your selection at a future date, just touch the FTS button before play and only your personal sequence will be repeated.

There is enough memory built into the machine to cope with an average of five tracks from up to discs. The remote control handset provided with the model CD is more elaborate than that of the CD, allowing all the features except FTS to be operated from your armchair. ConstructionM The internal construction of these machines shows how Philips manage to achieve these standards of elaboration and performance at such a modest cost.

There is extensive use of plastics; all the casework except the, lid and front panel, practically all the mechanism including gearing and slides for the disc access drawer and innumerable smaller parts, are all plastics.

Everything clips and slots together; there are a very few selftapping screws but no nuts and bolts. It is to Philips's credit the inventor of the Compact Disc system that their very first CD players, introduced way back in , employed digital filters and four-times oversampling. While other makers of CD players were employing steep analog output filters and a Gradually, more and more companies switched to oversampling and digital filtration, which is now the accepted standard for all higher quality CD players.

But even as companies have switched to digital filtering, most have opted to use two-times oversampling. The first unit using this best-of-both-worlds approach that I've had a chance to check out, the Philips CDB, is absolutely superb sounding. There's not much time wasted in getting from one track of a CD to the next, either. The new low-mass laser-pickup assembly has so little inertia that it moves from track to track in 1 sec or less.

While many of the circuit and structural refinements of this player account for its outstanding audible and measured performance, less technically oriented users will be equally enthralled by some of its unique convenience features. This not only lets you program your favorite selections from a disc in any order but also lets you automatically replay those selections, without reprogramming, each time you load that disc again.

The system can memorize over tracks; if you select an average of five tracks per disc, you can store enough information to handle more than discs in this manner! There's no need to tell the player what disc you've loaded, for it "recognizes" each programmed disc's unique digital codes as soon as that disc is inserted. Philips does, however, provide a sheet of stick-on numerals that you can affix to the label side of the discs you've programmed into the FTS system; these numbers can be used for reference if you want to change or erase a specific program.

Up to 20 selections can be programmed for whatever disc is currently playing. Unlike many CD players, this unit also allows you to program by index numbers if such numbers have been encoded on your discs. However, because this requires a bit more memory than programming by track number, you cannot store quite as many index references as tracks. Finally, you can also program the player to start and stop at given times within a track by punching in the times on a keypad; the CDB is the first I've ever seen with this capability.