Changing brightness of the display

CDX-596

You can change the brightness of the display (or turn off the illumination) by pressing DIMMER.

During playDuring a stop or a pause
Normal illumination

Normal illumination

 

DIMMER

Dim

Dim

(off)*Dim*
* While the display illumination is off,

AUTO

the AUTO DISPLAY OFF indicator DISPLAY OFF on the front panel lights up.

CDX-496, CDX-396

If desired, you can change brightness of the display in three degrees by pressing DIMMER.

*The AUTO DISPLAY OFF indicator lights up. If a disc is played in this state, the display illumination will be turned off.

Normal illumination

DIMMER

Slightly dim

Dim

Automatic spacing

If you record a disc onto tape with an insufficient time space between tracks, the tape deck will not be able to perform blank search operations on the tape correctly. To prevent such a search mistake of the deck, press SPACE and light up “SPACE” on the display before recording. Spaces of about 4 seconds are inserted between the tracks.

SPACE

SPACE

Note

When the automatic spacing function is in effect, the display of the total time and of the total remaining time will include each of the 4 second intervals placed between tracks.

To cancel the automatic spacing functionPress SPACE.

SPACE

“SPACE” disappears from the display.

Adjusting the level of signals output to the amplifier and the headphone listening level

CDX-596 and CDX-496 only

You can adjust the level of signals output to the amplifier by pressing –OUTPUT LEVEL +.

OUTPUT LEVEL +

When you listen with headphones, connect the headphones to the PHONES jack and adjust the volume by pressing –OUTPUT LEVEL +. At that time, note that this adjustment will also vary the signal level output to the amplifier.

PHONES

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