Basic operations

See page 16 for button locations.

Adjusting the volume [VOLUME]

CAUTION

•Always set the volume to minimum level before starting any source. If the volume is set at a high level, the sudden blast of sound may damage your hearing and/or blow out the speakers.

On the remote control:

Press AUDIO VOLUME +/–.

On the center unit:

Press VOLUME +/–.Listening with headphones (not supplied)

CAUTION

Be sure to turn down the volume;

•Before connecting or putting on headphones as high volume may damage both the headphones and your hearing.

•Before disconnecting headphones as high volume may suddenly come out of the speakers.

While connecting a pair of headphones to the PHONES jack on the center unit, the system automatically cancels the surround mode (see page 27) currently selected, deactivates the speakers, and activates the headphone mode. “HEAD PHONE” appears on the display window.

Headphone mode

When using the headphones, the following signals come out regardless of your speaker setting;

•For 2 channel sources, the front left and right channel signals are come out from the headphones.

•Multi-channel signals are downmixed and come out from the headphones.

Turning off the sound temporarily [MUTING]Press MUTING.

To restore the sound

Perform one of the following:

•Press MUTING again.

•Press AUDIO VOLUME +/–.

•Press VOLUME +/– on the center unit.

Adjusting the brightness of the indications [DIMMER]Press DIMMER.

Each time you press the button, you can change the brightness level in 3 steps.

Sleep Timer [SLEEP]

The system turns off automatically when the specified period of time has passed.

Press SLEEP repeatedly.

Each time you press the button, the shut-off time changes as follows:

10 Z20 Z30 Z60 Z90 Z120 Z150 Z180 Z

–– (Canceled) Z(back to the beginning)

•The SLEEP indicator lights up on the display. Example:

SLEEP indicator

shut-off time

To check the remaining time

Press SLEEP once.

To change the remaining time

Press SLEEP repeatedly.

To cancel

Press SLEEP repeatedly, until “SLEEP – –” appears.

•The SLEEP indicator goes off.

•Turning off the power also cancels the Sleep Timer.

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