setting a maximum level You may also set a maximum volume level for the Nº383, a particularly useful feature if the system is sometimes used by people who may not be as careful as you yourself would be. (Teenaged children come to mind.)

To change the maximum level, press setup to enter the setup menu, turn the select knob until MaxVol = 73.2 shows in the display, and then use the volume knob to alter the maximum volume setting as you see fit. When finished, press enter to save your change. Pressing setup one last time will return you to normal operation (leaving the setup menu).

configuring You may wish to use the DC trigger output on the rear panel of the the DC trigger Nº383 to turn on some other component automatically when the

Nº383 itself is on. If so, you have two trigger options: either a 12V level (constant) voltage that is present whenever the Nº383 is opera- tional, and absent when the Nº383 is in standby; or a 5V pulse whenever the Nº383’s state is changed from one to the other (similar to the output of a momentary contact switch). This menu item allows you to choose which of these two options you want, given the needs of your particular system.

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If you are not sure what the receiving component needs for a trigger signal, please ask your Mark Levinson dealer for assistance.

checking the The last item in the setup menu is a software version number that iden- software version tifies what version of the Nº383 control software is running in the

preamplifier. Your dealer can inform you of the most current version of this software, and you can compare that number to the one shown in your display.

Although we do not anticipate frequent software updates for the Nº383 (after all, it does not have to contend with the ever-changing standards for digital audio decoding), it has been designed to readily accept new software should it become available. For example, if we were to add some new convenience feature to the Nº383 at a future date, your dealer could easily download the new software from our web site to his computer, and from there to your unit, all without having to open the product up. In fact, if the rear panel RS-232port is accessible, you do not even have to disconnect the preamplifier from the rest of the system for such an update.