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Denon CD Player Review - DCM-380 5-Disc Carousel
CD Players
The stately DCM-380 CD player offers Denon quality and convenience with 5-disc playback and multiple play modes. The unit handles prerecorded and recordable CDs, including MP3 CDs, which can store around 10 hours of music per disc. The carousel changer's play exchange feature lets you swap up to 4 discs while a fifth is playing, and you'll only hear the music, thanks to Denon's quiet changer mechanism.
The player also offers decoding for discs encoded with HDCD (High-Definition Compatible Digital), a 20-bit process used on many commercial CDs to deliver better sound than is possible through standard CDs. HDCD-encoded discs play on all CD players, but HDCD-enabled players deliver extra resolution. (Check your discs for an HDCD logo on the disc face or in the liner notes.)

Ensuring top-flight sound regardless of the source disc, the DCM-380 features a multilevel noise-shaping digital-to-analog converter. Multilevel modulation removes the adverse effects of jitter. And because the feature is built into the player's output amp, the player directly obtains a clean analog output with suppressed high-frequency interference.

You can customize a song sequence with 32-track programming, which lets you create a a custom music mix from the remote control. Program any combination of tracks from the 5 discs (not including MP3 CDs). Three-mode random playback includes full random, program random, and disc sequential random modes. The display shows total remaining time on the disc, elapsed track time, and remaining track time. Four-mode repeat play loops 1 track, 1 disc, all 5 discs, or a programmed sequence.

Outputs include a set of left/right RCA analog outs (which you'll want to use when listening to HDCD or MP3 sources) and a coaxial digital-audio output for direct connection to a surround receiver or a minidisc or CD recorder.

With intelligent disc scan, the disc skip button can rotate the carousel tray clockwise or counter-clockwise as you search for a disc. (Counter-clockwise rotation is operable only by remote controller.) When the DCM-380 is cable-connected to an amplifier or receiver that supports Denon's remote control in/out feature, you can operate the DCM-380 via the remote sensor on the amplifier or receiver. This feature is especially handy when the DCM-380 is located in another room.




Denon CD Player Technical Specification - DCM-380 5-Disc Carousel
Records CDs: No
Text display: No
MP3 playback: Yes
Compatible formats: CD, CD-R, CD-RW, MP3 CD (up to 99 folders over 7 levels; multisession compatible; not compatible with ID3 tags)
Includes radio: No
Built-in speaker: No
Changer type: Carousel
Audio DAC: Multilevel Noise Shaping DAC
HDCD decoding: Yes (available through analog outputs only)
Headphone jack: Yes (.25-inch)
Intro scan: No
Resume: No
Headphone volume control: Yes (via remote)
Audio outputs: 1 stereo analog (left/right) RCA, 1 coaxial digital-audio (MP3 audio only appears from the analog outputs)
Number of discs: 5
Play exchange: Yes
Random play: Yes (except with MP3 CDs)
Remote included: Yes (RC-258)
Repeat play: Yes
Music calendar: 20-selection display (shows total disc track numbers, up to 20)
Sleep timer: No
Intelligent disc scan: Yes
Track programming: 32 tracks (across 5 or fewer CDs, not including MP3 CDs)
Syncro recording: Yes
Oversampling: 8x
Dynamic range: 100 dB
Signal-to-noise ratio: 112 dB
Frequency response: 2 to 20,000 Hz
Total harmonic distortion: 0.0025 percent
Channel separation: 98 dB
Line-level output (variable): 0.2 to 2.0 V RMS
Remote in/out: Yes (when cable-connected to an amplifier or receiver that supports this feature, you can operate the DCM-380 via the remote sensor on the amplifier or receiver--handy when the DCM-380 is in another room)
Power supply: AC 120 V, 60 Hz
Power consumption: 15 watts
Item width: 17.1 inches
Item depth: 4.5 inches
Item height: 15.4 inches
Item weight: 12.6 pounds
Warranty: 1 year parts and labor
In the box: CD changer, remote control, remote batteries, a stereo analog audio interconnect, a user's manual, a warranty card, and a service-station list