Tascam CD-500 Single Rackspace CD Player

TASCAM’s best-selling line of single-rackspace CD players has been updated to the CD-500. The CD-500 is a slot-loading CD player with a new transport, featuring brushless motors and an edge-grabbing mechanism to prevent disc damage. A front-panel 10-key pad gives you instant access to CD tracks, and flash start is available for instant playback. The CD-500 supports MP3 and WAV file playback from CD-ROM as well as traditional audio CDs.

The TASCAM CD-500 includes 16% pitch control for CD playback speed. Other features include incremental play, fader start, Call/return to last play point, fade in/out, power on play and more. Controllable through RS-232C, footswitch or wireless remote control, the CD-500 is the perfect solution for installation, touring, house of worship and anywhere else rackspace is at a premium.

Also available, the CD-500B adds XLR balanced outputs, AES/EBU digital I/O and parallel control.  

 

Slot-loading mechanism

RCA unbalanced output

Optical and Coaxial S/PDIF digital outputs

All, single, random, A/B and 99-track program play

Incremental play

Track elapsed, track remain, disc remain time display

Call function: return to last play start point

Intro check

Fade in/out (0 to 10 sec., in 0.5 sec. steps)

Power on play

Frame-accurate search

Skip back play

Activate or deactivate the wireless remote

Relay play with multiple units through 1/8” relay in/out jack

Index search (CD-DA discs) and directory search (MP3 discs)

Mono output

Resume

Fader start / event start

EOM (End of message)

WAV file (up to 48kHz/16bit) and MP3 file (up to 320kbps VBR) playback

Headphone output

RS-232C control

Wireless remote controller included

Footswitch input (for optional RC-3F footswitch)