Harman-Kardon FL8350 owner manual Normal Play, Play Exchange, Time Display, Headphone Listening

Operation

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Normal Play

Once the discs have been loaded, they may be played in a number of different ways.

To play all of the tracks on each disc in order, starting with the first track on the disc currently in the play position, and proceeding through each disc that has been loaded, press the Play button $h.

To start play on a specific disc, press the Disc Select button (bthat corre- sponds to the desired disc’s position in the disc tray. If no disc is found in the selected position, the unit will search for the next disc.

To play the discs in the FL8350 in ran- dom order, press the Random button

@i. The RANDOM indicator will light and the FL8350 will select a disc from those loaded, and then select a track to play. At the conclusion of the first track selection, another disc and track will be selected. Playback will continue with each disc and track being randomly chosen by the FL8350’s micro- processor until all tracks on all discs have been played.

When a disc is in play, the Information Display will show a play indication ß, and the icon for the disc position in use will flash. The track being played will show both as a large number in the middle of the display and as a smaller, flashing number at the right side of the display. The elapsed time of the track being played will appear in the display. As the disc plays, the track numbers will change, and the time will reset to

at the start of each new track. To momentarily pause the play of a disc, press the Pause button #j. Note that a Pause indication ± will appear in the display to remind you that the disc is

paused. Press either the Play button $

hor the Pause button #jto resume to normal play.

You may also directly select a specific track on the disc being played directly by entering the track number via the Numeric Controls cd. To play tracks one through ten, simply press the button ccorresponding to the desired track. To select a track number above 10, first press the +10 button duntil the digit of the track number is shown in the display. For example, press the button once for tracks 11 through 19, twice for 20 through 29, and so forth. Once the first digit of the track number is selected, press the Number button ccorresponding to the second digit within five seconds. The unit will pause briefly to find the track and then go into the play mode.

To stop the disc, press the Stop button

%g. When the stop button is pressed the display will again show the total number of tracks and total running time of the last disc to be played.

Play Exchange

The FL8350’s Play Exchange feature allows you to change discs while the machine is playing. Using this feature you can have uninterrupted play of an unlimited number of discs, since the drawer may be opened and discs changed while the machine is still in play.

To use the Play Exchange function, sim- ply press the Open/Close button !

aat any time while the unit is in the Play mode. The disc drawer will open and two discs will be available for change. Replace either disc, or both, as desired. To reach the other two discs, press the Disc Skip button *p. You may now remove and change either of these two discs.

When you have finished making any disc changes, press the Open/Close button

!a. The drawer will close and play will continue with normal functions.

Time Display

The FL8350’s time display is capable of showing a wide range of information about a CD.

In normal operation the display will show the total running time of the CD that is currently being played. Each time the track changes, the time display will

reset to and begin to increase again as the disc plays.

To view the time remaining on an indi- vidual track, press the Time button 6

lonce. The display will now show the time left in the track currently playing.

To view the total time remaining to play on the disc, press the Time button 6

ltwice. In this time display mode the TRACK indication will show the tracks remaining, not the usual display of the track being played.

Headphone Listening

You may listen to the output of the FL8350 through headphones by plugging a set of standard headphones with a 1⁄4" headphone plug into the front panel Headphones Jack 3. The volume of the headphone output may be adjusted with the Headphones Level Control 4. Note that changing the headphone level will not change the volume for the main audio output. This is a fixed out- put, and it is changed using the volume control on your receiver, preamplifier or surround processor.