Additional Information
Learning More about This System
Before Operating the System (see pages 8 to 11)
Playable Disc Types:
•If you play back an NTSC disc with this setting set to “PAL,” you can watch the playback pictures (the disc will be reproduced using “PAL 60” format), but the TV screen may roll over upward and downward rapidly.
•If you play back a PAL disc with this setting set to “NTSC,” you can watch the playback pictures, but the following symptoms may occur:
–The items on the disc menu will be blurred, and be shown slightly shifted when highlighted.
–The aspect ratio of the picture may differ from the original aspect ratio.
–The picture movement is not smooth.
•About audio format
–Linear PCM: Uncompressed digital audio, the same format used for CDs and most studio masters.
–Dolby Digital: Compressed digital audio, developed by Dolby Laboratories, which enables
–DTS (Digital Theater Systems): Compressed digital audio, developed by Digital Theater Systems, Inc., which enables
–When playing back a DVD Audio disc recorded by MLP (Meridian Lossless Packing; a lossless audio compression system that can completely recreate the PCM signal), the signals recognized as the linear PCM signal, however, no indicator lights up in the display window.
Daily Operations—Playback (see pages 12 to 16)
Listening to the Radio:
•If you store a new station into an occupied preset number, the previously stored station in that number will be erased.
•When you unplug the AC power cord or if a power failure occurs, the preset stations will be erased in a few days. If this happens, preset the stations again.
Playing Back a Disc:
•On some DVD, SVCD, or VCD discs, the actual operations may be different from what is explained in this manual, due to the programming and disc structure; such differences are not a malfunction of this System.
•Some DVD Audios prohibit downmix. When you play back such a disc, “LR ONLY” appears on the display and the System plays back the left front and right front signals.
•For MP3/WMA/JPEG playback...
–MP3/WMA/JPEG discs are required a longer readout time than regular CDs. (It depends on the complexity of the group/file configuration.)
–Some MP3/WMA/JPEG files cannot be played back and will be skipped. This results from their recording processes and conditions.
–When making MP3/WMA discs, use ISO 9660 Level 1 or Level 2 for the disc format.
–This system can play back MP3/WMA/JPEG files with the extension code <.mp3>, <.wma> or <.jpg> (regardless of the letter
–It is recommended that you make each MP3/WMA file at a sampling rate of 44.1 kHz and at bit rate of 128 kbps. This System cannot play back files made at bit rate of less than 64 kbps.
•When discs* in more than one tray are loaded on the disc trays, they are played in sequence as follows:
Ex.:When DISC 2 is pressed:
DISC 2]DISC 3]DISC 4]DISC 5]DISC 1 (then stops)
*When no disc is loaded on the tray, that disc number is skipped.
Daily Operations—Sound&Other Adjustments
(see pages 17 to 20)
Adjusting the Volume:
•Be sure to turn down the volume before connecting or putting the headphones.
Reinforcing the Bass Sound:
•RHYTHM AX function also affects the sound through the headphones.
•While listening with the headphones, you cannot adjust the subwoofer level.
•RHYTHM AX function and subwoofer level setting does not affect recording.
•You can adjust the subwoofer level while RHYTHM AX is on.
•The subwoofer lamp changes brightness according to the subwoofer level.
Selecting the Sound Modes:
•The sound mode lamp and Surround mode lamp change brightness according to selecting Sound mode.
Creating Your Own Sound Modes—User Mode:
•When you unplug the AC power cord or if a power failure occurs, the USER mode settings will be erased in a few days. If this happens, set the USER Modes again.
Selecting 3D PHONIC Mode:
•While you use the headphones, 3D PHONIC mode is canceled temporary.
•3D PHONIC setting is also applied to the optical digital output signals through the OPTICAL DIGITAL OUTPUT terminal.
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