FRONT PANEL CONTROLS
1. POWER ON/OFF
Press this button to switch on the power to the disc player. Press again and release to switch the power off. The display window lights up when power is ON, and “NO DISC” is shown if there is no disc in the drawer. The blue LED above the ON/OFF button lights up briefly when ON/OFF is activated, but it goes out again immediately.
The blue LED lights up permanently only to indicate the S500 is in
If the unit is not going to be used for some time, disconnect the plug from the AC socket.
2. DISC DRAWER
To play a disc, press the STOP/OPEN button to open the disc drawer. Place the CD within the large circular recess in the drawer, with its transparent surface facing down. The label must face UP.
NOTE: This player was not designed to accommodate a “damping disc” placed on a CD, nor two CDs stacked together. It plays audio CDs, but not discs identified as
3. PLAY/PAUSE
This
The play mode is identified by the word “PLAY” in the display. In the pause mode, the word “PAUSE” is displayed instead.
To resume playback at the exact point where it stopped, press PLAY/PAUSE again. If you don’t want to resume play at the same point, you may use the SKIP controls to cue the pickup to a different starting point before pressing PLAY/PAUSE again.
4. STOP/OPEN
Press this button to open the disc drawer, and press it again to close the drawer. If this button is pressed once while a disc is being played, the playback will stop and the pickup will
When the disc drawer is open, the
CAUTION: DO NOT try to close the drawer by pushing it in by hand, no matter if the player is ON or OFF. The disc drawer is opened and closed by an internal motor, which may be damaged if forced.
When the drawer closes, the player scans the disc’s “table of contents” and displays the number of tracks and total playing time on the disc. If you press PLAY/PAUSE to close the drawer, this display is skipped, and play commences immediately at Track 1.
5. SKIP BACK 
& SCAN BACK 
The 
and 
functions are combined in one SKIP/SCAN Back button. One press skips back to the beginning of the previous track.
Press 
twice to skip back two tracks and so on.
If you try to SKIP Back past the first track on the disc, then “ERR” will appear in the display, then play the first track.
The SCAN Back 
function is activated by pressing the same button, but keeping it depressed for more than 2 seconds. This causes the laser to scan backwards continuously, first slowly, after a few seconds rapidly, until the button is released. This function works only while the player is in PLAY or PAUSE. After a STOP command, or after loading a new disc, you must press PLAY/PAUSE before the scan circuit will work.
If the scan is initiated while the player is in PAUSE, the scan is silent. If the scan is initiated during PLAY, the music will be heard in fragmentary form at reduced volume as the player scans through it. Use this “audible scan” to cue the player precisely to the spot where you want to resume play.
If you scan back to the beginning of the disc while playing Track 1, the player stops scanning and resumes PLAY or PAUSE when you let go of the button.
6. SKIP FORWARD 
& SCAN FORWARD 
The 
and 
functions are combined in one SKIP/SCAN
Forward button. During play, pressing SKIP Forward 
will jump
the laser to the beginning of the next track and resume play there. Thus, to sample each song on a disc, press PLAY/PAUSE and then tap
SKIP Forward 
after you’ve heard a few seconds of each track. If you try to SKIP Forward past the last track on the disc, then “ERR” will appear in the display, then play the last track.
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If you scan forward to the end of the disc while playing the final track, the scan will stop and the Time display will keep showing the final end time. (There is no
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