Mark Levinson N390S owner manual Play button, Pause button

The Extended Pause Mode

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17. play button

As you might guess, press this button in order to play a disc. If a programmed sequence of tracks exists for that particular disc, the program will be played from its beginning. Also, as you might expect, you may press the play button immediately after placing a disc in the Nº390S’s drawer; the drawer will close and the Nº390S will enter the play mode as soon as it has confirmed its internal conversion rate (24-bit, 352kHz), has read the disc’s table of contents and checked to see if a program exists that ought to be played.

The play button has another important function: if you wish to return to the beginning of the track currently playing, simply press play to restart at the beginning of that same track. If the Nº390S is in pause, pressing play will re-cue the disc at the beginning of the current track.

18. pause button

Pressing this button once during play will pause the Nº390S at that point within the track; the display will show double bars ( ) as a reminder that you are in the pause mode.

Pressing the pause button a second time will resume play.

After two minutes in pause, the Nº390S will go into an “extended pause” mode. Extended pause stops the disc and turns off the laser against the possibility that you have been called away and may not return for some time. The Nº390S will slowly flash the double bars ( ) to indicate that you are in the extended pause mode rather than normal pause.

You may force the Nº390S into extended pause mode by pressing and holding the pause button (on either the front panel or the remote control) until the double bars begin to blink.

In effect, extended pause is much like stop, with the exception that pressing pause will return you to the point on the disc where you had left off listening after only a momentary hesitation to spin the disc back up to speed and scan to the appropriate point.