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Note

• Refer to the table below for the Russian display on this unit.

Connecting to an External Amplifier (POWER IC)

When an external amplifier is connected, sound quality can be 
improved by stopping the power supply of the built-in amplifier.

Setting item: 

POWER IC

Setting contents:

ON (Initial setting) / OFF

ON :

The speakers are driven by the built-in amplifier.

OFF :

Use this mode when the line output of this unit is used to drive an 
external amplifier. In this setting, the head unit’s internal amplifier 
is turned OFF and cannot drive speakers.

ON :

OFF :

Note

• No sound is produced by the system when the power output is set to 

OFF.

Demonstration

This unit has a demonstration feature for the display.

Setting item: 

DEMO

Setting contents:

DEMO ON / DEMO OFF (Initial setting)

Note

• To quit Demo mode, set to DEMO OFF.

DISPLAY is selected on the setup main menu in step 2.

Changing Lighting Colour

You can change the lighting colour of the following six buttons. 

SOURCE



FAV

 , 

BAND

 and 

.

Setting item: 

ILLUMINATI

Setting contents:

ILUM TYPE1 (Initial setting) / TYPE2 /TYPE3 / TYPE4

TYPE1 :

When the colour of the six buttons is blue, the colour of the other 
is red.

TYPE2 :

When the colour of the six buttons is green, the colour of the other 
is green.

TYPE3 :

When the colour of the six buttons is amber, the colour of the 
other is red.

TYPE4 :

When the colour of the six buttons is red, the colour of the other is 
red.

Scroll Type Setting

Choose from two scrolling methods.
Select the type you prefer.

Setting item: 

SCROLLTYPE

Setting contents:

SCR TYPE1 / SCR TYPE2 (Initial setting)

SCR TYPE1:

The characters scroll from right to left, a single character at a time.

SCR TYPE2:

Words are built up from left to right, a single character at a time. 
When the display is filled, it is cleared and the remaining words are 
displayed the same way until all words of the title have been 
shown.

D

D:
C:

C

D C

D C

D C

 

Speakers

SPEAKER 
RIGHT FRONT 

Front 
right

SPEAKER 
RIGHT REAR 

Rear 
right 

SPEAKER 
LEFT REAR

Rear 
left 

SPEAKER 
LEFT FRONT 

Front 
left 

Display Setting

 

 

Front 
left

Amplifier

Front 
right

Rear 
left 

Amplifier

Rear 
right 

Summary of Contents for CDE-123R

Page 1: ...e il attrezzatura ΕΓΧΕΙΡΙΔΙΟ ΧΡΗΣΤΗ Παρακαλούμε διαβάστε το πριν χρησιμοποιήσετε τη συσκευή ALPINE ELECTRONICS MARKETING INC 1 1 8 Nishi Gotanda Shinagawa ku Tokyo 141 0031 Japan Phone 03 5496 8231 ALPINE ELECTRONICS OF AMERICA INC 19145 Gramercy Place Torrance California 90501 U S A Phone 1 800 ALPINE 1 1 800 257 4631 ALPINE ELECTRONICS OF CANADA INC 777 Supertest Road Toronto Ontario M3J 2M9 Can...

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Page 3: ...ofer Level Bass Level Mid Level Treble Level Balance Between Left and Right Fader Between Front and Rear AUX Mix Level Loudness Defeat 15 Sound Setting 16 Equalizer Presets FACTORY EQ 16 Adjusting the Parametric Equalizer Curve 3BAND EQ 16 Setting the Bass Control 16 Setting the Mid Control 16 Setting the Treble Control 17 Adjusting the High Pass Filter 17 Turning Subwoofer ON OFF 17 Adjusting the...

Page 4: ...26 Alphabet Skip Function Tag search mode only 26 Quick Search 26 Search Position Memory 26 iPod iPhone optional Connecting an iPod iPhone 27 Setting the iPod Control 27 Playback 27 Searching for a desired Song 27 Direct Search Function 28 Select Playlist Artist Album Genre Composer Episode 28 Alphabet Skip Function 28 Search Position Memory 29 Random Play Shuffle M I X 29 Repeat Play 29 Displayin...

Page 5: ...t instructions Failure to heed them can result in injury or material property damage HALT USE IMMEDIATELY IF A PROBLEM APPEARS Failure to do so may cause personal injury or damage to the product Return it to your authorized Alpine dealer or the nearest Alpine Service Centre for repairing PRECAUTIONS Product Cleaning Use a soft dry cloth for periodic cleaning of the product For more severe stains p...

Page 6: ...h accessories can cause the disc to be out of standard specifications and may create operational problems We recommend not using these accessories on discs played in Alpine CD players On handling Compact Discs CD CD R CD RW Do not touch the surface Do not expose the disc to direct sunlight Do not affix stickers or labels Clean the disc when it is dusty Make sure that there are no bumps around the ...

Page 7: ...oroughly Fix the Portable audio player in a location where driver operation will not be hindered Portable audio player may not function correctly at high or low temperature Depending on the settings of the Portable audio player type memory state or encoding software the unit may not play back or display properly If the Portable audio player has an MSC MTP setting set to MTP A Portable audio player...

Page 8: ...ou can recall your favourite source by pressing FAV directly For details refer to Set your favourite source to the FAV button FAV SETUP on page 19 Detaching and Attaching the Front Panel 1 Turn off the unit power 2 Press e Release at the lower left side until the front panel pops out 3 Grasp the left side of the front panel and pull it out Notes The front panel may become hot in normal usage espec...

Page 9: ...ode Both strong and weak stations will be automatically tuned in Automatic Seek Tuning Local mode Only strong stations will be automatically tuned in Automatic Seek Tuning Manual mode The frequency is manually tuned in steps Manual tuning 4 Press or to tune in the desired station Holding down or will change the frequency continuously Presetting Stations Manually While receiving the station that yo...

Page 10: ...quency Note Press in the search mode to cancel Or the search mode will be cancelled if no operation is performed for 10 seconds Turning AF Alternative Frequencies ON OFF The RDS Radio Data System is a radio information system using the 57 kHz subcarrier of regular FM broadcast The RDS allows you to receive a variety of information such as traffic information station names and to automatically re t...

Page 11: ...ncoder to select ALARM and then press ENTER 4 Turn the Rotary encoder to select ON or OFF If you set to ON emergency broadcasts are received regardless of source ALARM is displayed during reception 5 Press and hold AUDIO SETUP for at least 2 seconds to return to normal mode When an emergency broadcast is received the volume level will be automatically changed to the memorized level in the traffic ...

Page 12: ...n broadcast began When traffic information stations cannot be received In the CD mode When the TP signal can no longer be received the traffic information station of another frequency will be selected automatically Note The receiver is equipped with the EON Enhanced Other Networks function in order to keep track of additional alternate frequencies to the AF list If the station being received does ...

Page 13: ...les in a folder are repeatedly played back MP3 WMA AAC mode only 2 To cancel repeat play select off with the above procedure M I X Random Play 1 Press 5s The songs are played back in random sequence s 1 s ALL 2 off s 1 Only files in a folder are played back in random sequence MP3 WMA AAC mode only 2 The tracks files are played back in random sequence 2 To cancel M I X play select off with the abov...

Page 14: ...o data WMA is similar to MP3 audio data and can achieve CD quality sound with small file sizes What is AAC AAC is the abbreviation for Advanced Audio Coding and is a basic format of audio compression used by MPEG2 or MPEG4 Method for creating MP3 WMA AAC files Audio data is compressed using software with MP3 WMA AAC codecs For details on creating MP3 WMA AAC files refer to the user s manual for th...

Page 15: ...rmation such as track titles artist names album names etc written into MP3 WMA AAC files Root folder The root folder or root directory is found at the top of the file system The root folder contains all folders and files It is created automatically for all burned discs Adjusting Subwoofer Level Bass Level Mid Level Treble Level Balance Between Left and Right Fader Between Front and Rear AUX Mix Le...

Page 16: ...ng value and then press ENTER 3 Press to return to the previous step Setting the Bass Bandwidth WIDTH Q Turn the Rotary encoder to select the desired bass bandwidth WIDE 0 50 MEDIUM 1 00 MEDIUM 1 50 NARROW 2 00 Changes the boosted bass bandwidth to wide or narrow A wider setting will boost a wide range of frequencies above and below the centre frequency A narrower setting will boost only frequenci...

Page 17: ... subwoofer output level refer to Adjusting Subwoofer Level Bass Level Mid Level Treble Level Balance Between Left and Right Fader Between Front and Rear AUX Mix Level Loudness Defeat on page 15 Setting item SUBWOOFER Setting contents ON Initial setting OFF ON The subwoofer signal is output from the Subwoofer RCA Connectors refer to Connections on page 36 OFF No subwoofer signal is output from the ...

Page 18: ...track name Such text information is referred to as text Notes Some characters may not be displayed correctly with this device depending on the character type NO SUPPORT is displayed when the desired text information cannot be displayed on this unit The text or tag information may not be correctly displayed depending on the contents Using the Front AUX Input Terminal Connect a portable music player...

Page 19: ...ds to activate the SETUP mode 2 Turn the Rotary encoder to select the desired item and then press ENTER BLUETOOTH 1 GENERAL AUDIO 2 DISPLAY TUNER iPod USB e g Select GENERAL BLUETOOTH BT IN BT MENU 3 GENERAL FAV SETUP 4 PLAY MODE INT MUTE 5 AUX R SET AUX R NAME 6 AUX SETUP AUX NAME 7 AUX GAIN 7 AUX R GAIN 6 AUX MIX 7 CYRILLIC POWER IC DEMO DISPLAY ILLUMINATI SCROLLTYPE TEXT SCR TUNER RDS REG 8 PI ...

Page 20: ... Phone Menu recorded for the last dialed received missed calls and Phone Book Voice Dial will be changed depending on this setting When BT MENU is set to ENGLISH the Phone Menu is displayed as VOICE DIAL DIALLED RECEIVED MISSED PHONE BOOK When BT MENU is set to DEUTSCH the Phone Menu is displayed as SPRACHWAHL GEWAEHLT ANGENOMMEN VERPASST TEL BUCH When BT MENU is set to FRANCAIS the Phone Menu is ...

Page 21: ...the audio of an external device such as a Portable audio player to the AUX connector of this unit Setting item AUX SETUP Setting contents ON Initial setting OFF ON Set to ON when a portable device is connected If SOURCE is pressed and AUX is selected the sound of the portable device is input to the unit You can change the AUX NAME display when AUX SETUP is set to ON Press ENTER when AUX SETUP is s...

Page 22: ...ing six buttons SOURCE FAV BAND and Setting item ILLUMINATI Setting contents ILUM TYPE1 Initial setting TYPE2 TYPE3 TYPE4 TYPE1 When the colour of the six buttons is blue the colour of the other is red TYPE2 When the colour of the six buttons is green the colour of the other is green TYPE3 When the colour of the six buttons is amber the colour of the other is red TYPE4 When the colour of the six b...

Page 23: ...u can skip over designated folders files by pressing For example if you select 10FILE in the Explorer FILE NAME searching mode by pressing you can skip forward 10 folders files from the current folder file by pressing you can skip backward 10 folders files from the current folder file If the folders files searched are less than the assigned skipped over ones pressing will skip to the first or last...

Page 24: ...es every 1 000 songs stored in USB Memory Portable audio player into individual banks to make searching and playing back a song easier A maximum of 1 000 songs for one bank can be stored according to the order stored in USB Memory Portable audio player A maximum of 20 banks 20 000 songs can be recognized Playback 1 Press SOURCE to select the USB mode Depending on which USB Connector you used press...

Page 25: ...xcept Song and File hierarchy all songs of the selected hierarchy are played back Even if the songs belong to the same playlist they may be saved as different BANK After selecting ALL in the Tag search mode with press and hold ENTER for at least 2 seconds to play back all songs in the selected search mode While in the search mode if you press and hold for at least 2 seconds or no operation is perf...

Page 26: ...r to select the desired Playlist Artist Album Genre Composer Folder This item is invalid when a portable audio player is connected Notes If the song search mode was used to select a song this function is inactive If an album is selected during an artist search other albums by that artist are searchable For Flash Memory this function is inactive during M I X ALL M I X song playback For Portable aud...

Page 27: ...iPod nano 1st generation Ver 1 3 1 Confirmed devices regarding Made for iPhone Correct function of earlier versions cannot be guaranteed iPhone 4 Ver 4 2 1 iPhone 3GS Ver 4 2 1 iPhone 3G Ver 4 2 1 iPhone Ver 3 1 3 For clarity in identifying your model of iPod please see Apple s own document Identifying iPod models at http support apple com kb HT1353 This unit does not support video playback from i...

Page 28: ...the iPod iPhone podcast search is not supported If any one of the preset buttons 1 through 6 is pressed in the search mode a search can be made quickly by skipping to the specified location For details refer to Direct Search Function on page 28 Direct Search Function The unit s direct search function can be used to search for an album song etc more efficiently In PLAYLIST ARTIST ALBUM SONG PODCAST...

Page 29: ...g does not play back again until all songs have been played back 1 Press 6 The songs are played back in random sequence s ALL off s ALL Shuffle ALL 2 To cancel M I X play select off with the above procedure Notes If Shuffle ALL is selected the selected songs being played back in the search mode are cancelled This function is unavailable when iPod is selected in Setting the iPod Control refer to Se...

Page 30: ...not possible A CD is already in the CD player Eject the CD and remove it The CD is being improperly inserted Make sure the CD is being inserted following instructions in the CD Player Operation section Unable to fast forward or backward the CD The CD has been damaged Eject the CD and discard it using a damaged CD in your unit can cause damage to the mechanism CD playback sound skips due to vibrati...

Page 31: ... to the USB connector device You can solve the problem by switching the source No song file is stored in the Flash Memory Portable audio player Connect the Flash Memory device Portable audio player after storing songs files A sampling rate bit rate not supported by the unit is used Use a sampling rate bit rate that is supported by the unit A copy protected WMA file was played back You can only pla...

Page 32: ... Distortion 0 008 at 1 kHz Dynamic Range 95 dB at 1 kHz Signal to Noise Ratio 105 dB Channel Separation 85 dB at 1 kHz USB requirements USB 1 1 2 0 Max Power Consumption 500 mA USB Class Mass Storage File System FAT 12 16 32 MP3 Decoding MPEG 1 2 AUDIO Layer 3 WMA Decoding Windows Media Audio AAC Decoding AAC LC format m4a file Number of Channels 2 Channel Stereo Frequency Response 5 20 000 Hz 1 d...

Page 33: ...specified accessory parts Use of other than designated parts may damage this unit internally or may not securely install the unit in place This may cause parts to become loose resulting in hazards or product failure ARRANGE THE WIRING SO IT IS NOT CRIMPED OR PINCHED BY A SHARP METAL EDGE Route the cables and wiring away from moving parts like the seat rails or sharp or pointed edges This will prev...

Page 34: ...ssis installing location 3 Slide the CDE 123R into the dashboard When the unit is in place make sure the locking pins are fully seated in the down position This can be done by pressing firmly in on the unit while pushing the locking pin down with a small screwdriver This ensures that the unit is properly locked and will not accidentally come out from the dashboard Install the detachable front pane...

Page 35: ...he iPod iPhone in a vehicle for a long time Heat and humidity may damage the iPod iPhone and you may not be able to play it again Connect USB Memory Connect the USB cable to the Rear USB connector of the unit and then secure the connection using the lock case supplied with USB cable as shown below Remove USB Memory Pull out USB Memory squarely from the USB cable Notes When removing USB Memory pull...

Page 36: ...ntenna ISO Antenna Plug JASO Antenna Plug Pink Black To vehicle phone Blue White To amplifier To the instrument cluster illumination lead Red To power antenna Black Ignition Key Blue Orange Yellow Battery Speakers Green Rear left Green Black White Front left White Black Grey Black Front right Grey Violet Black Rear right Violet Speakers Rear left Amplifier Rear right Front left Amplifier Front rig...

Page 37: ...tenna Do not use this lead to turn on an amplifier or a signal processor etc Dimmer Lead Orange This lead may be connected to the vehicle s instrument cluster illumination lead This will enable the vehicle s dimmer control to dim the backlighting of the unit Battery Lead Yellow Connect this lead to the positive post of the vehicle s battery ISO Power Supply Connector ISO Connector Speaker Output L...

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