Harman HK 990 owner manual Operating Instructions, Making a Recording, Important Notes

HK 990

Operating Instructions

Listening to Your CD Player, Tape Deck, Tuner or Other Source

1.Press the Power switch 2 to turn on the amplifier. The power indicator lights white and the protection circuitry checks for short circuits or other problems for a few seconds before sound output.

2.Press “Speaker 1” to hear loudspeakers connected­ to the rear Speaker 1 terminals.

Press “Speaker 2” to hear loudspeakers connected­ to the rear Speaker 2 terminals. Press both to hear both speaker pairs at once. To listen to headphones only, press to turn off any active speaker pair.

3.Select desired source for listening by pressing the front-panel Source Selector (5) Up or Down button repeatedly until the name of the source is shown in the Main Information Display, or by pressing the desired System On button on the remote control. Please take the time to associate physical input jacks to source names; then press the Power button to place the amplifier in standby to have it save your preferences.

4.Begin playing the desired source.

5.Adjust the volume control to the desired level.

With the Input Setup, you may adjust bass and treble as well as balance if you have not already done this during the setup process.

With the EQ Preset you can select one, two or three stages of equalization, if you did already perform the EzSet‌/‌EQ Setup automated adjusting process as described above.

Making a Recording

You may record any source to tape or to CDR or to both simultaneously. You may also connect a second tape deck to the CDR inputs and outputs to record from tape to tape (in either direction).

To select the desired source for recording (it can be a source different from the one being

listened­ to), press the Record Out button, followed by the Source Selector Up or Down button on the front panel, repeatedly until the indicator for the name of the source to be recorded is shown in the Main Information Display. All input signals, digital or analog, are available for recording in both digital and analog form. This means that if you wish to copy a vinyl record to a digital recorder, you simply start vinyl play, select “Phono” as Record Source and begin recording on your digital recorder. The built-in analog/digital converters transform the analog Phono signal to digital form. The reverse is also possible: if you have connected a CD player to the HK 990 with a digital cable, its signal is available from the analog recording outputs as well as the digital outputs.

NOTE: The record-output signal is taken directly from the program source and is unaffected by the volume, bass, treble or balance controls.

Important Notes:

•• “Record Source” can be selected on the front panel only, not from the remote control.

•• Three-head cassette decks with monitoring function can be connected to Tape or CDR connectors, too, but their monitoring function cannot be used.

•• Always turn the HK 990 to Standby with the Power button before unplugging the power cord (or before switching off an external multiplug). This saves your current setup in the memory, in addition to safely switching off the power-amplifier section of the HK 990.

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