AUX IN’s Menu Items Display Link, Input Names

Mark Levinson N390S owner manual AUX IN’s Menu Items Display Link, Input Names

AUX IN’s Menu Items:

• Display Link

This links the display intensity functions of the Nº390S and the other Linked components. When the components are linked, all displays will be set to the same brightness. Pressing display intensity on any of the Linked components will affect all the displays.

The Nº390S also allows you to rename the two auxiliary digital inputs, in order to give them a name that might be more meaningful in the context of your system than their factory-default, generic RCA and OPT input names. You may select from the following list of names (the same list is available for both inputs).

Input Names

DMX	Digital Music Express

DSS	Digital Satellite System

DAT	Digital Audio Tape

DCC	Digital Compact Cassette

MD	Mini-Disc

CDR	Compact Disc-Recordable

CDI	Compact Disc-Interactive

DBS	Direct Broadcast Satellite

LD	Laser Disc

CD	Compact Disc

ADC	Analog to Digital Converter

AUX	Auxiliary

DCA	Digital Cable Audio

PCD	Proceed CD

PDT	Proceed Digital Transport

CDD	Compact Disc Drive

N.U.	Not Used*

If, while playing the Nº390S you decide to change inputs (using either of its digital inputs), the Nº390S will place itself in pause. If you haven’t switched back to listen to the Nº390S again within 30 seconds, it will assume you are finished listening to it and place itself in the stop mode.

Note that if you elect “N.U.” (Not Used) as the name of an input, that input will be bypassed while cycling through the available inputs. Thus if you are using one of the two auxiliary inputs and not the other, setting the unused input to “N.U.” will change the

N390S specifications

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