External disc control features

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Switching Display for Discs

Switch the display that appears while discs are playing.

Switching Display for Discs:

Each time you press the DISP button, the display during disc play switches as follows.

Track time

Disc name (DNPS)

Disc title (Units featuring CD text/MD only)

Track title (Units featuring CD text/MD only)

NOTE

You can give names to discs through the presetting disc name function (see p. 26). Note that depending on the unit, display may not be possible.

If you try to display the name of a disc that does not have one, "NO NAME" is displayed instead.

When there is an attempt to display the title of a disc for which the disc title/track title has not been recorded, "NO TEXT" is displayed for CD and "NO TITLE/NO NAME" is displayed for MD.

Depending on the type of characters of the CD Text, some characters may not be displayable.

You cannot use reverse play between tracks depending on the model being connected. Instead, the reverse play function is canceled when it reaches the beginning of a track, at which point normal play will automatically resume.

Track Search

Search forward or backward through the tracks on the disc until you reach the one that you want to listen to.

Making a Reverse Track Search:

Press the 4 button to display the desired track number. Press once to search back to the beginning of the current track, twice to search back to the beginning of the previous track, and so forth.

Play starts at the beginning of the displayed track number.

NOTE

Pressing the 4 button while listening to track 1 will only search back to the beginning of that track. The reverse search is not "recycled" to the last track on the disc.

Making a Forward Track Search:

Press the ¢ button to display the desired track number. Press once to fast forward to the next track, twice to fast forward to the track after that, and so forth.

Play starts at the beginning of the displayed track number.

NOTE

You cannot make a forward track search when listening to the last track on a disc.

Fast Forwarding and Reversing Disc Play

Fast Forwarding Disc Play:

Hold down on the ¢ button.

Release your finger to play the disc at that point.

Reversing Disc Play:

Hold down on the 4 button.

Release your finger to play the disc at the point.

NOTE

Disc Search

(Function of disc changers)

Search forward or backward through the discs in a disc changer.

Making a Reverse Disc Search:

Press the DISCbutton to display the desired disc number.

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Kenwood KRC-X858, KRC-708 Switching Display for Discs, Track Search, Fast Forwarding and Reversing Disc Play

KRC-708, KRC-X858 specifications

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