Rotel Diamond Series DT-6000

Features

Smooth-Action Tray Loading CD Player: The DT-6000's smooth action tray loading CD player utilizes Rotel's formidable 30-years of experience engineering and manufacturing award winning disc spinners. The industrial design includes a spring-floating CD mechanism with damping materials to reduce mechanical noise and vibrations during playback. Precision motor controls and the optical laser pick-up extract every nuance and detail from CD collections both large and small.

• The Rotel DT-6000 supports playback of CD Audio, CD-R/RW, and CD Text discs. CD-R/RW discs must contain music files in CD Audio format (not MP3).
• This unit does not support MP3 or other compressed audio files via CD data discs.

Balanced Design Concept: Balanced Design Concept is the essential Rotel design philosophy that revolves around three major areas - Parts selection, circuit topology, and critical evaluation. These aspects influence final sound quality significantly and illustrate the holistic Balanced Design Concept approach to Rotel's product development. Thanks to the Balanced Design Concept, Rotel components easily exceed the performance of many mass produced audio products that offer plenty of features but skimp on audio quality, and compare favorably to components that are many times the price. Rotel continues its pursuit of extraordinary audio performance, which elevates the home entertainment experience through their core values of sonic accuracy, reliability, and affordability.

• Parts Selection: Rotel engineers carefully select premium components and parts for all their audio gear. At each stage of development, Rotel engineers listen to circuit prototypes and revise the design when they feel they can gain a sonic advantage by using a particular component from another manufacturer or by specifying tighter tolerances. Since Rotel is an independent manufacturer, they are free to source parts from highly respected suppliers around the world to fit their requirements.
• Circuit Topology: It’s not enough to simply use good parts. Where you put them is equally if not more important. That's why Rotel keeps their circuit paths as short as possible, so there's less chance that spurious emissions and unwanted leakages will corrupt delicate signal nuances. That’s also why Rotel often uses more expensive "on-board" relay source switching, rather than routing a signal from a rear-panel input to a front-panel control. Rotel also relies heavily on something called Symmetrical Signal Trace design. This keeps each channel's signal path identical to the others to preserve the imaging and soundstage. Rotel also uses electrically superior "star" grounding techniques to improve performance because star grounding routes all ground connections to a single point to reduce potential loops that might introduce noise or produce hum.
• Critical Evaluation: Rotel's development team places a lot of importance on critical listening sessions before the final product is sent to market. Rotel electronic and acoustic engineers, both in the UK and Asia, have honed their aural acuity over the course of decades of collective experience to evaluate each stage of product development from working samples, through pre-production and, finally, to verify that final production is the same as the pre-production units. Some sessions evaluate different circuit elements: capacitors, resistors, and active devices such as transistors or operational amplifiers. Others focus on differences in circuit layouts or differences caused by power supply elements. Only after this tuning process is complete with sonic performance confirmed will the product be launched to the market. 

Carefully Engineered Power Supply & Circuit Board Layout: Dedicated power supplies feed all critical circuits driven by an in-house manufactured low-emission shielded toroidal transformer with high efficiency, low ESR slit-foil smoothing capacitors delivering ripple free current. This low impedance power supply has ample power reserves, which enables the DT-6000 to easily reproduce the most demanding audio signals. The DT6000's printed circuit boards (PCB) are designed with Symmetrical Circuit Traces. This insures that the precise timing of the music is maintained and faithfully recreated. Physical circuit board isolation techniques and electronic decoupling design methods result in lower residual noise and reduced distortion in the sensitive analog stages including the external DAC output filters. All aspects of this design have been examined to ensure the most faithful music reproduction.

ESS Premium 32-Bit/8-Channel DAC: The Rotel DT-6000 is equipped with a 32-bit/8-channel ESS Sabre ES9028PRO DAC that dedicates four channels each to the left and right stereo outputs rendering unprecedented details with an ultra-low noise floor and and immersive, expansive soundstage. The onboard 32-bit/384kHz DAC has been optimized to retain your music's full dynamic with precisely tuned output filter circuits that deliver unprecedented acoustic detail, wide sound stage and exact positioning.

Balanced & Unbalanced Analog Outputs: The DT-6000 unit gives you a choice of two different kinds of stereo analog output connections - balanced XLR and unbalanced RCA. The balanced XLR and unbalanced RCA outputs utilize the built-in DAC and plug into a balanced or unbalanced analog audio component, such as a stereo receiver or integrated amplifier. Balanced XLR connections guard against induced noise and allow longer cable runs without compromising sound quality.

Optical & Coaxial Digital Inputs: The Rotel DT-6000 features an optical (toslink) digital input and coaxial (SPDIF) digital input with support for 2ch stereo PCM audio up to 24-bit/192kHz.

Note: The digital audio inputs do not support Dolby Digital, DTS, and other multichannel audio formats.

USB-B 2.0 (PC-USB): The DT-6000's USB-B port allows connection to your Windows PC or Mac computer, so you can playback your laptop or desktop music libraries through the Rotel CD player. The DT-6000 supports USB Audio Class 2.0 for playback of 2ch stereo PCM (up to 32-bit/384kHz), DSD (up to 11.2MHz), and MQA. To take advantage of USB Audio Class 2.0 audio playback supporting up to 384kHz sampling rates you will need to install the Windows driver supplied on the included USB thumbdrive (USB driver not required for Mac). Some audio playback applications do not support 384kHz sampling rate. Please confirm your audio player supports 384kHz audio and you have 384kHz audio files to properly playback this sample rate. Also, you may need to configure the audio driver in your PC to output 384kHz or your computer may "down-sample" to a lower audio sample rate.

• MQA (Master Quality Authenticated): MQA (Master Quality Authenticated) is a revolutionary end-to-end technology that captures and delivers master quality audio in a file that's small enough to download and stream. MQA ensures the your will hear your favorite digital audio music soundtracks exactly the way the artist intended you to hear it when it was approved in the studio.
• Roon Tested: The RA-1572 MKII is certified as Roon Tested and compatible with software via the integrated amp's USB-B port when connected to a compatible Windows or Mac computer. Being  Roon Tested means that Rotel and Roon have collaborated to ensure you have the best experience using Roon software and the DT-6000 together, so you can just enjoy the music.

Note: You'll still control search and playback functions, as well as view song/artist/information from your your Windows PC or Mac computer (not the DT-6000).

USB-A (Firmware Only): There is also a rear-panel USB-A port that is used only for firmware and software updates. The USB-A port does not support charging or media playback.

Front-Panel Display: A 2-line display on the front-panel of the unit provides useful information about the status of the unit, activation of special features, and track/time information for the disc being played. The unit will also display CD Text. The front-panel display offers a dimmer function.

Front-Panel & Remote Control: The unit can be operated using its front-panel buttons or from corresponding buttons on the supplied back-lit IR (infrared) remote control. Specific instructions for each of these controls are detailed below. Many of the buttons are duplicated on the front-panel and on the IR remote control. However, there are several functions where the buttons are only available on one or the other. A dedicated button on the remote turn on the backlight function, so you can clearly see the remote in the dark.

• Power Operation: Power On/Off, and Open
• Playback Functions: Play/Pause/Stop, Previous/Next Track, Fast Forward/Reverse (2x, 4x, or 8x), Repeat/Random, Program Track (up to 20 tracks), and Direct Access (0-9) =
• Source Selection: CD, Coax, Optical, and PC-USB
• Volume Settings: Volume Up/Down, Mute (for Rotel integrated amplifier).
• Other Functions: Dimmer (front-panel display), Light (remote backlight), Setup (menu)

Custom Remote Integration: The Rotel DT-6000 CD player is outfitted with the following IR, 12V, and RS232 remote inputs for custom integration control.

• IR In: The IR Input (3.5mm) receives command codes from industry-standard infrared receivers via a hard-wired connection. This feature can prove useful when the unit is installed in a cabinet and the front-panel sensor is blocked.
• 12V Trigger Input: The unit can be activated by a 12 volt trigger signal. The trigger input accepts any control signal (AC or DC) ranging from 3 volts to 30 volts. When a mono-minijack cable is connected to the 12V input and a trigger signal is present, the CD Player is powered on. When the trigger signal is turned off, the unit goes into standby mode.
• RS232 Port: The unit can be controlled via RS232 for integration with automation systems. The RS232 input accepts a standard straight DB-9 Male-to-Female cable.

Auto Power Off: The CD player can be configured to automatically power off if unused for a specified period (20, 60, or 90 minutes). If the CD is stopped for the specified time, the unit will automatically go into standby mode.