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Adjusting the sound
characteristics
You can adjust the bass, treble, balance, and
fader.
The bass and treble levels can be stored
independent l y for each source.
1Select the item you want to adjust by
pressing (SOUND) repeatedly.
Each time you press (SOUND), the item
chan ges as fo ll ows:
BAS (bass) t TRE (treble) t BAL (left-
right) t FAD (front-rear)
2Adjust the selected item by pressing
either side of (SEEK).
When adjusting with the rotary commander,
press (SOUND) and rotate the VOL control.
Note
Adjust within 3 seconds after selecting the item.
Quickly attenuating the
sound
(With the rota ry commander)
Press (ATT) on the rotary commander.
After “ATT-ON” mom entarily a ppears, th e
“ATT” appears in the display.
To restore the previous volume level, press
(ATT) ag ain.
Tip
When the interface cable of a car telephone is
connected to the ATT lead, the unit decreases the
volume automatically when a telephone call comes in
(Telephone ATT function).
Changing the sound and
display setti ngs
— Menu
The following items can be set:
SET (Set Up)
•CLOCK (page 8)
•CT (Clock Time) (page 16)
•BEEP — to tu rn the beeps on or off.
•RM (Rotary Co m mander) — to change the
operative direction of the controls of the rotary
commander.
– Select “NORM” to use t he rotary co mmander
as the fac to ry -set positio n.
– Select “REV” when you mount the rotary
comm ander on the right sid e of the stee ri ng
column.
DSPL (Display)
•D.INFO (Dual Information) — to displa y the
clock and the play mode at the same time (on).
•AMBER/GREEN — to change the
illumination colour to amber or green (CDX-
L550 onl y)
•DIM (Dimmer) — to change the brightness of
the display (CD X - L550V onl y) .
– Select “ON” to dim the display.
– Select “OFF” to deactivate the Dimmer.
•M.DSPL (Mo t io n D isplay) — to select the
Moti on Display mode fr om “1,” “2,” and
“OFF.”
– Select “1” to show decoration lines in the
displa y and activate Demo dis play.
– Select “2” to show decoration lines in the
displa y and deactivate Demo di splay.
– Select “OFF” to deactivate the Motion
Display.
•A.SCRL (Auto Scro l l)
– Select “ON” to scroll all automatically
dis played names exceeding 8 characters.
– When Auto sc roll is set to off a nd the disc/
track na m e i s changed, the disc/tr ack name
does not scroll.
SND (Sound)
•LOUD (Loudness) — to enj o y bass a nd treble
even at low volum es . Th e bass and tr eble will
be reinforced.