The brightness setting of the CP-500 has three possible values: low, medium, and high. Select the appropriate setting based on the level of ambient light typically found in your listening room while using the system. A high brightness setting usually works best in brightly-lit rooms; you may find that a lower setting is less visually intrusive under more subdued lighting conditions.
If you prefer listening to music in a dimly-lit or darkened room, you may find even the low brightness setting of the display somewhat distracting. If so, you can vary the timeout of the backlighting so as to turn it off entirely after a period of inactivity you select.
In this context, activity refers to any use of the user interface. This includes hard buttons, the LCD touchscreen, and the remote control.
For example, if you reduce the timeout to its minimum setting, the backlighting will illuminate the display as soon as you interact with any of the CP-500 controls, and stay on for only three seconds – just long enough for you to check on something. If you continue to use any of the controls (at least once every three seconds), the display will remain lit. It will then extinguish itself after three seconds of inactivity on your part.
If you prefer the display of the CP-500 to remain on whenever not in standby, choose the never timeout setting. The lamp in the LCD display was designed for harsh automotive environments and will give you many years of reliable operation. If you plan to leave the unit on continuously, however, we recommend that you keep the timeout delay set to less than one minute. (Note that setting the brightness to a lower setting does not increase the life of the lamp.)
The language menu offers you any of the different languages supported by the CP-500 GUI. Classé has provided our international distributors with a software tool that makes it possible for them to customize the translations to suit their local customs and terminology, in an effort to ensure that the CP-500’s operation is as intuitive to use in every country as it is in our home country of Canada.
The main balance control gives you both a numeric and a graphical indication of the current balance setting for the CP-500.
Some recordings are not balanced particularly well between the left and right channels. If the image presented by a particular recording seems heavily weighted to the left (for example), you can restore a more natural perspective with the balance control. To shift the image to the right, touch the right>> button one or more times as needed to correct the perceived imbalance.
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