LINK Menu Items:
• Locked Volume
Lastly, if (and only if) the volume control circuitry is engaged, you have the option of setting a maximum volume beyond which the Nº390S will not go. This is particularly helpful if you have a combination of high sensitivity speakers and high sensitivity power amplifiers, which might make the normal maximum volume setting on the Nº390S dangerously loud for your particular system. (It was designed to be able to drive even relatively insensitive systems.) Alternatively, it can serve as a helpful “party control” to guard against indiscrete guests becoming somewhat overzealous in the heat of the moment.
If you want to set a maximum allowable volume, select your chosen volume setting and then toggle from UNLOCKED to
LOCKED.
• Standby Link
This feature links the standby modes of the various Mark Levinson Linked components. For example:
–If CD processor, preamplifier and power amplifier(s) are in standby mode, pressing the CD processor’s standby button will take all three components out of standby mode (making them ready to use).
– If CD processor, preamplifier and power amplifier(s) are | 49 |
“on” (not in standby mode), pressing the Nº390S’s standby button will place only the CD processor in standby mode (presuming that you may wish to use your digital processor with some digital source other than the Nº390S).
–If CD processor, preamplifier and power amplifier are “on” (not in standby mode), pressing the preamp’s standby button will place all three components into standby mode.
•Name Link
If you use the Nº390S as a transport with a Linked processor with your Nº390S (via one of the digital outputs), having the NAME link on will allow the Nº390S to show up in the display of the processor by name, e.g., No39 rather than a generic CD.
• Play Link
When you press the Nº390S’s play button, this link automatically selects the appropriate inputs on the preamplifier so you can listen to the CD (if you have named that input “No39” as described in the preamp’s owner’s manual). This function also works on the Linked processor if the Nº390S is used as a transport (functioning as a “slave” on the communication system rather than as the “master.”)