Denon Professional’s most affordable pro grade CD player, the DN-C620, was launched at the beginning of this month. The DN-C620 incorporates all of the features required by today’s most demanding broadcast facilities.

“The broadcast-grade drive boots up almost instantly; time taken to ‘read and ready to play’ all supported media is significantly faster than with consumer based CD players” says Denon.

The DN-C620 boasts a 1U form factor and full broadcast functionality, offering professional specifications and performance to low cost infrastructure facilities.

A professional feature set includes

Instant start
Auto CUE
Frame accurate search capability
User-definable quick replay
+/- 12% pitch control.

Advanced playback features are as follows.

A ‘finish’ mode function, with a selectable preset option of either Stop / Cue of the following track, or Recue of the current track, when the unit is in single play mode.

RS-232 control provides for integration with third party serial control systems and can output ISRC and POS codes from commercial CD releases, as well as CD-Text and ID-3 tag information. A 25 pin GPIO parallel control port facilitates full integration within broadcast systems, including fader start functionality.

iZotope today unveils the ANR-B – an adaptive realtime noise reduction unit at NAB, bringing the company’s signature to a dedicated hardware unit for use in real-time broadcast applications.

ANR-B intelligently identifies and suppresses environmental broadband noise, hum, phone line artifacts and more, dramatically increasing the quality of audio broadcasts involving radio call-in programs and on-location broadcasting. iZotope’s ANR-B actually detects noise in real-time and adapts to changing noise over time, allowing for automatic operation with little to no input required from the user.

“Broadcasters face realtime noise challenges ranging from cell phone call-ins to noisy air conditioners and bad wiring,” says Mark Ethier, CEO of iZotope, Inc. “ANR-B automates the process of high-quality noise reduction in realtime so noise issues no longer make or break a segment.”

WGBH Boston, America’s preeminent public broadcasting producer, has been employing a prototype of the ANR-B in its state of the art facility to produce the renowned radio program “The World,” a co-production of Public Radio International and the BBC.

“At WGBH Radio our reporters and guests are often interviewed in war zones and some of the most remote locations on Earth,” says Ray Fallon, Engineer at WGBH. “These places are only accessible by phone line, ISDN and satellite phone, leading to audio quality that is far below the standard for our award winning news radio programs. iZotope’s ANR-B reliably and quickly removes ambient and path noise automatically, allowing us to focus on getting the interview completed instead of fiddling with controls to get usable audio.”

Key Features
• Automatically removes noise from audio in real-time
• Two channels can work independently or as a stereo pair
• Includes presets for specific scenarios
• Residual Noise switch lets user quickly preview the noise being removed
• Single knob controls noise suppression on each channel for fast operation
• Learn button allows for manual operation by capturing a noise profile
• PC/Mac interface for managing presets and designing advanced programs
• Remote control capability

Specifications
• Power – 110/220 VAC, 50/60 Hz
• LAN – (PC/Mac host connection)
• Analog Audio – Balanced XLR, Conversion: up to 24-bit, 96KHz, Output +4 dBu
• Digital Audio – AES-EBU, Impedance: 110 ohms, Interface: Balanced, transformer coupled
• Sync – DARS, AES-EBU

Pricing and Availability
ANR-B will be available in Summer of 2008 for $4995 MSRP.