CD53 & CD50 Compact Disc Player

7.At the end of the last track the CD will return to a waiting mode.

NOTES:

If the CD is deeply scratched, too dirty, or not recorded to Sony/Philips ‘Red Book’ standards, the disc may not play. If an improperly centered disc is played, noise will be heard in the mechanism. Avoid using such discs.

Some discs of poor manufacture may not be readable or may skip. Check another disc should this occur.

Some discs will take longer to read the T.O.C. if they have a lot of tracks, i.e. more than 25.

OPERATION

STANDBY

When switching-on from Standby, with no disc in the tray, the display will show no dISC.

If there is a disc in the tray the track display will show dISC until the T.O.C. (table of contents) has been read.

When the T.O.C. has been read, the information will be displayed, i.e. the total number of tracks and total playing time.

INSERTING A DISC

Press the OPEN/CLOSE button on the front panel or DISC on the handset, the disc tray will open and the OPEN sign will be displayed.

Insert the disc and press the OPEN/CLOSE or DISC button again to close the tray.

The disc will start spinning and the total number of tracks will be read. The disc will then stop and the display will show the T.O.C. (table of contents), being the total number of tracks and the total playing time.

TO PLAY A DISC

Press the PLAY button. The disc will start playing.

The track number 1 will be displayed, together with

the PLAY symbol and the elapsed time of the track being played.

TO STOP DISC PLAY

Press the STOP button. The disc will stop playing,

the PLAYsymbol will disappear and the track indicator will show the total number of tracks. The time indicator will display the total playing time.

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Creek Audio CD50, CD53 operating instructions Standby, Inserting a Disc

CD53, CD50 specifications

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