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OPERATING THE DEVICE

 

 

GENERAL

 

 

 

Operation

Button

Description

 

 

 

Switching on and off

POWER (5)

The appliance does not have a standby switch, it is switched on and off at

the front. When switched off it is disconnected from the power supply.

 

 

 

 

 

 

VOLUME

 

 

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On the appliance: Turn the “VOLUME” knob clockwise to turn up the volume

Volume setting

 

and anti-clockwise to turn it down. On the remote control: Hold down the

VOLUME

“VOLUME UP” button to turn the volume up. Use “VOLUME DOWN” to turn

 

 

UP/DOWN

it down.

 

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INPUT (2)

On the appliance: By turning the “INPUT” knob.

 

CD

On the remote control: Briefly pressing the button for the required input

 

DVD

channel, e.g. “CD” or “AUX”, changes to playback of the appliance

Input selection

AUX

connected there.

 

SACD

The name of the input channel appears on the display.

 

LINE

 

Before switching over the input channel, the volume should be turned down

 

TUNER

 

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as a precaution!

 

 

 

 

 

Mute can only be operated with the remote control. It switches off the loud-

Volume mute

MUTE (28)

speakers, the headphones and the “PRE” (15) preamp output. Pressing it

 

 

again restores the volume to its original setting.

 

 

 

 

TREBLE (7)

The sound control can only be operated on the front of the appliance.

Controlling the treble

The “TREBLE” knob is used to influence the high-pitched sounds, the “BASS”

BASS (8)

and bass

knob the low ones. Turning clockwise increases the set intensity, whilst an

 

 

 

anti-clockwise movement reduces the intensity.

 

 

 

 

 

The loudness function can only be operated on the front of the appliance

 

 

using this button. It is a feature of audio amplifiers that enables the user

 

 

to boost high and low frequencies at the press of a button. The loud-

Loudness function

LOUD (3)

ness function therefore corrects the impression of loudness at low volume.

 

 

This is necessary because the human ear registers high and low frequen-

 

 

cies at low volume but identical sound pressure much less than the

 

 

middle ones (sound frequencies around 1 kHz).

 

 

 

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TUNER

 

 

 

Operation

Button

Description

 

 

 

Selecting the RDS

INPUT (2)

To activate radio mode you can either press the “TUNER” button on the

radio as the input

TUNER (18)

remote control or select this input on the front panel of the appliance with the

source

 

“INPUT” knob.

 

 

 

 

 

This button is found on both the remote control and the front of the appliance.

Selecting the

AM/FM

This allows you to switch between the FM (VHF) and AM (MW) modes when

frequency band

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the radio is on. VHF offers better sound quality and a greater selection of

 

 

stations.

 

 

 

 

 

This button is found on both the remote control and the front of the appliance.

Switching between

ST/MONO

If a station can only be received with poor quality in stereo, there is an option

of listening to it in mono mode. This can improve the sound quality.

stereo/mono

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Switching between these two is only possible for the radio. Whilst this setting

 

 

 

 

is active, the display shows “MONO” in small letters.

 

 

 

 

TUNING

When the radio is on, use the “TUNING MODE” button on the front of the

 

appliance or on the remote control to select one of the two following options

 

MODE

 

from the three possible settings (function of the Tuning/Preset buttons):

 

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• MANUAL The display briefly shows “MANUAL”. If this mode is

 

 

Selecting a radio

￿TUNING

selected you can change the radio frequency up or down with the

￿TUNING PRESET￿” buttons on the front of the appliance or

frequency in

PRESET￿

￿TUN/PRE￿” on the remote control step by step (in steps

search mode

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of 0.05 MHz for FM and 9 kHz for AM).

 

 

 

￿TUN/PRE￿

• AUTOSCAN The text “AUTOSCAN” can be seen briefly on the display.

 

In this mode the selected frequency band is automatically searched up or

 

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down (automatic frequency search) when “￿TUN/PRE￿” is pressed, and the

 

 

 

 

tuner stops at the next frequency with sufficiently strong reception.

 

 

 

 

DIRECT

To input a known station frequency directly, you can proceed as follows

 

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(the keys are found both on the appliance and the remote control):

Selecting a radio

 

 

Press the “DIRECT” button. The receiver waits for an entry using the

station by inputting its

Numerical

numerical keys in the next few seconds. In FM mode, 5 numbers need to

radio frequency

keys

be entered, two of which come after the decimal point of the frequency

numerically

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in MHz. If an invalid frequency is entered, the appliance corrects this to

 

 

 

 

the nearest valid frequency.

 

 

 

 

TUNING

You are able to store up to 30 radio frequencies for each of the frequency

 

MODE

bands (FM, AM) and select them using their positions in the memory.

 

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If stations have already been stored, one of them can now be selected by

 

￿TUNING

entering the position in the memory with the numerical keys. To search through

 

all the stations stored, the “TUNING MODE” button on the front of the appli-

Changing to playback

PRESET￿

ance or on the remote control can be used to select the third of the three

from a preset station

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possible settings

 

￿TUN/PRE￿

 

• PRESET (search through all stations stored). “PRESET” can be seen briefly

 

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on the display. Using the “￿TUNING PRESET￿” buttons on the front of the

 

 

 

Number block

appliance or the “￿TUN/PRE￿” buttons on the remote control, it is now

 

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possible to go through all the positions already stored.

 

 

 

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Vincent Audio SV-123 manuel dutilisation Operating the Device

SV-123 specifications

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