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5.FRONT PANEL OPERATION
The AVM 30 is best understood as a piece of equipment that contains three control components in one chassis. Path best describes how this tremendous flexibility of the AVM 30 is arranged:
•It is first of all a
•It is also a
5.1POWER ON/OFF
When turned on, the AVM 30 comes on at the
Always turn the power amplifier on last to prevent
•MAIN On: There are various ways:
•Press MAIN in the POWER group (fig. right) or PATH group (fig. below).
•If ZONE2 and ZONE3 are off, press any SOURCE, FM•AM preset
(1 through 6), or TUNE to immediately
•ZONE2 or ZONE3 On: Press ZONE2 or ZONE3 in the POWER or PATH group.
•RECORD On: Press RECORD in PATH group. MAIN will turn on simultaneously if not already on. The Front Panel Display will show MAIN Path information (see highlighted notation in section 5.2).
•MAIN or ZONE2 or ZONE3 Off: Press MAIN or ZONE2 or ZONE3 in the POWER group.
•RECORD Off: Press MAIN in the POWER group. This turns off MAIN and RECORD simultaneously.
5.2PATH SELECTION
Path routes Sources to the MAIN, ZONE2, ZONE3, or RECORD outputs.
•MAIN: As the name suggests, MAIN routes the audio/video sources to your main listening/viewing room, with outputs for your MAIN TV monitor and
•ZONE2 and ZONE3: Routes any audio/video source to other listening/viewing rooms in your home. The chosen Source can be either the same or different from the Source selected in other paths. ZONE2 and ZONE3 each have outputs for a TV monitor and
•RECORD: Allows you to record audio/video sources independently of what is selected in other paths. Composite and
The AVM 30 automatically returns to MAIN a few seconds after an adjustment is made in ZONE2, ZONE3, RECORD, or HEADPHONE*. This is designed to prevent accidents. Say, for example, someone enters the MAIN room and turns up the volume – if the AVM 30 stayed in ZONE2, then the volume would increase in ZONE2, not MAIN. Since the person adjusting the volume doesn’t hear any change, chances are he or she would just keep turning it up and wonder what’s wrong, until something potentially ‘bad’ happens in ZONE2. If you’ve seen “The Party” and remember the hilarious scene where Peter Sellers messes with the console, you probably understand. The timeout setting can be changed in the Setup (see section 7.4.10).
* Except when MAIN is off or HEADPHONE is set to ‘Mute’ the MAIN speakers (see section 7.4.8).
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