Madrigal Imaging AVP2 owner manual Move to the 1 Item in the MENU, Press the Enter Button

defining input connectors

CD-AUDIO INPUT 1

AUDIO: DIGITAL

CONN: DIGITAL 1

example: setting up a laserdisc player

(S/PDIF) digital, and a pair of analog outputs for the occasional old disc that has only analog soundtracks. (This would be a pretty old disc, but they do exist.…) In this extreme case, you would need three sets of connections. We’ll come back to laserdisc later—for now, let’s stick with your CD transport, with its single connec- tion.

1MOVE TO THE “AUDIO CONNECTORS:” ITEM IN THE MENU, PRESS THE ENTER BUTTON, AND USE THE VOLUME ± BUTTONS TO INFORM THE SYSTEM HOW MANY CONNECTIONS ARE NEEDED; PRESS ENTER AGAIN TO SAVE THE CHANGE

As you work with the menu system a bit, the habit of pressing enter to work with an item and then pressing it again to save your work becomes second nature.

Once the AVP2 knows how many connections you need for this particular com- ponent, it updates its menu to provide for defining those connections. With only a single digital connection (for your CD transport), this is pretty simple. Just tell the system which digital input connector you used when you hooked up the CD transport.

1MOVE TO THE “1:” ITEM IN THE MENU, PRESS THE ENTER BUTTON

Since there are actually two things the system needs to know, and they would not have fit on a single line without confusion, you will be taken to the next-lower screen, which shows two items: audio and conn (short for “connector”).

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2PRESS ENTER AGAIN TO WORK WITH “AUDIO:” AND CYCLE THROUGH YOUR OPTIONS WITH THE VOLUME BUTTONS; CHOOSE DIGITAL AND PRESS ENTER TO SAVE

Once again, this is the factory default setting. Were you setting up a CD player that had only analog outputs, though, you would want to change this to analog and use a set of analog connectors on the AVP2 instead.

3MOVE TO “CONN:” WITH THE VOLUME BUTTONS, PRESS ENTER TO WORK WITH IT, AND CYCLE THROUGH THE LIST OF CONNECTORS UNTIL YOU SEE THE ONE YOU USED; PRESS ENTER TO SAVE THIS SETTING, AND MENU TO RETURN TO THE PREVIOUS/HIGHER MENU

As mentioned during the Quick Start for CD, you can connect any source component to any appropriate connector, and then simply tell the system what you have done. It is helpful to have written down what components are connected where during initial hookup, so you don’t have to try to peer around the back of the system with a flashlight later. A form for this pur- pose is included at the back of this manual. (Use a pencil, in case some- thing changes in the future.)

As mentioned earlier, a laserdisc player has several more connections that must be accommodated than does a simple CD transport. We will run through these additional settings next, without repeating the sections that remain the same.