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CASSETTE DECK OPERATION

You can play a cassette tape in either cassette deck, and you can record tapes in TAPE 1.

LOADING A TAPE

1.Take up any slack in the tape by turning the cassette’s hub with a pencil or your finger. If you do not remove excess slack, the tape might become tangled in the record/play- back mechanism. Avoid touching the tape.

2.Press STOP/EJECT to open the cassette compartment.

3.Load the cassette tape with its open edge facing down, the side you want to play or record on facing out, and the full reel to the left.

4.Close the compartment door.

PLAYING A TAPE

You can play a cassette tape in either TAPE 1 or TAPE 2, or you can load cas- sette tapes in both decks and play one side of each consecutively.

Warning: To protect your hearing, set MASTER VOLUME to MIN before you play a cassette tape.

Normal Play

Follow these steps to play a cassette tape in TAPE 1 or TAPE 2.

1.Load a cassette tape in TAPE 1 or TAPE 2.

2.Press POWER to turn on the system. The POWER indicator lights.

3.Set FUNCTION SELECTOR to TAPE.

4.Press PLAY on the deck where the tape is loaded.

5.Adjust the sound with the controls explained in “Adjusting the Sound” on Page 12.

6.Press STOP/EJECT to stop the tape. Press STOP/EJECT again to open the cassette compart- ment, then remove the cassette tape.

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Optimus CDG owner manual Cassette Deck Operation, Loading a Tape, Playing a Tape, Normal Play