Sony CDX-MP70 Quickly attenuating the sound, Changing the sound and display settings

Adjusting the sound characteristics

You can adjust the bass, treble, balance, fader, and subwoofer volume.

The bass and treble levels and subwoofer volume can be stored independently for each source.

VOL control dial

1 Press (SOURCE) to select a source (radio, CD, MD, or AUX).

2 Press the VOL control dial repeatedly to select the item you want to adjust.

Each time you press the VOL control dial, the item changes as follows:

DSO t EQ7 t BAS (bass)

tTRE (treble) t BAL (left-right)

tFAD (front-rear)

tSUB (subwoofer volume)

3 Rotate the VOL control dial to adjust the selected item.

Note

Adjust within 3 seconds after selecting the item.

Quickly attenuating the sound

(With the rotary commander or the card remote commander)

Press (ATT) on the rotary commander or card remote commander.

“ATT on” appears in the display momentarily.

To restore the previous volume level, press (ATT) again.

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 settings

— Menu

The following items can be set:

Set Up

•Clock (page 11)

•Beep — to turn the beeps on or off.

•AUX-A (page 26) — to turn the AUX source display on or off.

Display

•D.Info (Dual Information) — to display the clock and the play mode at the same time (on). Functions only when SA is not set to B-1 – B-5.

•SA (Spectrum Analyzer) (page 25) — to change the display pattern of the equalizer display.

•Demo

–Select “on” to activate the Demo display. The Demo display will appear about 10 seconds after the unit is turned off.

•Dimmer — to change the brightness of the display.

–Select “Auto” to dim the display only when you turn the lights on.

–Select “on” to dim the display.

–Select “off” to deactivate the Dimmer.

•Contrast — to adjust the contrast if the indications on the display are not recognizable because of the unit’s installation position.

•Color — to select from a range of 7 display colors.

•A.Scrl (Auto Scroll)

–Select “on” to scroll all automatically displayed names exceeding 9 characters.

–When Auto scroll is set to off and the disc/ track name is changed, the disc/track name does not scroll.

Play Mode

•Local on/off (Local seek mode) (page 16)

–Select “on” to only tune into stations with stronger signals.

•Mono on/off (Monaural mode) (page 16)

–Select “on” to hear FM stereo broadcast in monaural. Select “off” to return to normal mode.

•IF Auto/Wide (page 16)

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