Before Operating the System

The indications on the display teach you a lot of things while you are operating the System.

Before operating the System, be familiar with when and how the indicator illuminates on the display.

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MP3

SOUND TURBO AHB PRO MONO ST

REC

 

GR.

 

 

 

 

1CD

 

 

 

REC

ALL

 

 

 

PRGM RANDOM

A.STANDBY SLEEP 123

 

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9

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Indications on the main display

 

 

• While listening to radio:

• While selecting AUX:

 

ST REC

 

 

REC

Band

Frequency

Source name

• While playing a TAPE:

• While playing a CD:

 

REC

 

 

REC

 

Tape direction *1

Track

Elapsed playing

 

 

number

time

 

• While playing an MP3*2:

MP3REC

Current track number Elapsed playing time

• While disc play is stopped:

CD:

REC

 

Total track number

Total playing time

MP3:

 

 

 

• While in “TRACK” mode:

• While in “GROUP” mode:

MP3

REC

MP3

REC

 

 

GR.

 

Total track number

Total group

Total track

 

 

number

number

*1 While playing back a tape, “F-PLAY (Forward play)” or “R-PLAY (Reverse play)” appears on the display.

*2 When you start playing an MP3 disc, the group number, track number, track name, (and ID3 Tag) will be shown before the elapsed playing time appears.

1Disc tray indicators

•1–5: Disc tray number

•: Tray indicator

–Lights when the disc is detected.

–Blinking while playing back a disc.

–Goes off when there is no disc in the tray.

•: Shows the current disc.

2MP3 indicator

•Lights when an MP3 disc is detected. 3 SOUND TURBO indicator

•Lights when the SOUND TURBO is activated (see page 13).

4AHB PRO (Active Hyper Bass Pro) indicator

•Lights when the AHB PRO is activated. 5 FM reception indicators

•MONO: Lights while the FM monaural mode is activated.

•ST (stereo): Lights while an FM stereo station with sufficient signal strength is tuned in.

6Tape operation indicators

•REC indicator

–Lights while recording.

•2 3 (tape direction):

–Lights to indicate the current tape running direction.

–Flashes slowly during playback and recording.

–Flashes quickly while rewinding a tape.

•(Reverse mode):

–: Tape play continues endlessly.

–: Tape automatically reverses once.

– : Tape play stops at the end of one side.

7Disc operation mode indicators

• : Lights when Repeat mode is activated.

–GR.: Repeats all the tracks in the selected group.

–1: Repeats the track.

–CD: Repeats the disc.

–ALL: Repeats all the discs.

•PRGM (program): Lights when Program Play mode is activated.

•RANDOM: Lights when Random Play mode is activated.

8Main display

9A(auto). STANDBY indicator

•Lights when Auto Standby is activated.

•Flashes when disc playback stops with Auto Standby activated.

pTimer indicators

• : Lights when Daily Timer or Recording Timer stands by; flashes while working.

•1/2/3: Lights when a Daily Timer (1, 2, or 3) stands by; flashes while setting or working.

•REC: Lights when the Recording Timer stands by; flashes while setting or working.

•SLEEP: Lights when the Sleep Timer is activated.

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