Arcam SOLO NEO, User Manual

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CD Menu
Setup Menu
Solo Neo allows you to adjust listening settings to suit your taste, and to customise various features
to fit your system. Use the diagrams shown below to help you navigate through the available
settings.
Adjusting listening settings
In normal use, the display shows information on the current volume, the source being listened
to, and any source-relevant information (such as the playback time on a CD). To adjust the system
settings, press
MeNu
on either the front-panel or on the remote control. Use the keys as indicated
to select and adjust a particular setting.
The settings available depend on the selected source. DAB radio settings can only be changed
when the source is DAB, Network settings can only be changed when the source is NET Radio or
NET Media, etc. The following settings are common to all sources:
Balance
This setting allows you to increase the volume of one channel (left or right) relative to the other
channel. It should not normally be necessary to adjust this setting but, if you habitually sit closer to
one speaker than to the other, altering the balance may help to restore the stereo image for your
listening position.
Bass
This setting changes the relative volume of the lower frequency components of your music. If you
feel that your music is not ‘warm’ enough, increase this setting; if your music is ‘boomy’, decreasing
this setting may help.
See also ‘Bass correction’, below. Note that the control is inactive when headphones are connected.
Treble
This setting changes the relative volume of the higher frequency components of your music. If you
feel that percussion items in the music (for example) are being lost, increasing this setting may
help. If high frequency sounds are too dominant, decrease this setting.
Note that the bass and treble controls are inactive when headphones are connected.
Bass correction
This setting does not normally need to be used (leave on minimum).
Bass correction may be used if Solo Neo is connected to reduced-frequency-range (‘Small’)
speakers, that cannot reproduce very low frequency sounds. Increasing this setting causes very
low frequency sounds to be progressively attenuated (since these cannot be reproduced by the
speaker), while the volume of slightly higher-frequency sounds is increased. This means that the
overall bass ‘amount’ produced by the speaker sounds the same as a full-range (‘Large’) speaker.
You cannot damage any part of your system using this setting, so we suggest that you experiment
with it, together with the bass and treble controls, until you find the combination you prefer.
Sleep timer
This timer allows you to specify a listening period, after which Solo Neo will switch automatically
into stand-by. The period can be set in 5-minute intervals, up to 120 minutes (2 hours).
Setup Menu
CD programmimg
D E
Highlight the track to add
O
Add track to programme
Clr
Highlight and press O to delete
the last entry
#
(stop)
Press
STOP
twice (remote only) to
clear the entire programme.
Sleep Timer
Off
Left
-dB
-dB
-dB
–
Right
+dB
+dB
+dB
+
CD programme
If you wish to program the playback
order of a CD, press
O
when this
menu item is displayed. The CD
playback order is then entered as
described in the “CD programming”
panel, shown below. When you have
finished entering the programme,
press
MeNu
to leave “program mode”.
Press
MeNu
for a second time to leave
the Solo Neo configuration menu.