POWER
Touch the POWER touch-button to turn the player on.
The track indicator will light up.
Touch POWER again and the player is turned off. The
track indicator goes off.
LOAD
Touch the LOAD touch-button and the LOAD light il-
luminates. After 1 second the drawer slides out. If the
drawer is obstructed, it will not continue to open. Should
this happen, touch LOAD twice in succession to bring the
drawer fully out.
With your hand open, and thumb and fingers extended,
hold the disc at the rim and place it label side up, in the
disc drawer.
Close the drawer by touching PLAY, SCAN or LOAD.
Use PLAY if you want to play the complete disc, SCAN if
you first want to preview the disc or choose tracks from
it, and LOAD if you want to program the disc or if you
want to begin play with a particular track. In each case,
the drawer slides in when the button is touched. If the
drawer is obstructed as it closes, the drawer will come
out again after about 3 seconds.
The DAMAGED DISC/MUTE indicator remains lighted until
play begins. If the light remains on and the disc refuses to
play, make sure that the disc is in the drawer label side up.
To close the drawer when it is empty touch the LOAD
button. The DAMAGED DISC/MUTE sign will light. To pre-
vent the entry of dust, do not leave the drawer open.
Opening the drawer during play, will stop the disc.
PLAY
To play the complete disc, close the drawer by touching
PLAY. After the contents list on the disc has been read, the
number of tracks on the disc will be displayed on the track
indicator. The first bar of the track indicator becomes
brighter and the first track begins to play. When play begins,
elapsed playing time on this track is displayed.
As each track ends, the bright bar for that track goes off
and the next bar becomes brighter. Meanwhile, the time
between tracks is counted off, followed by a display of
the elapsed time played on that track.
To go back to the beginning of a track while it is play-
ing, touch PLAY. The track is then repeated from the
beginning. When all the tracks have been played, all the
bars of the track indicator and the DAMAGED DISC/MUTE
indicator will light. All other indicators turn off.
SCAN
The drawer will close and the first 10 seconds of each
track will be played when the SCAN touch-button is used
to initiate play. As each track is previewed its bar on the
display blinks on and off. Bars for tracks that have been
played are off.
When the beginnings of all tracks have been previewed,
the SCAN sign goes off, and the laser pick-up returns to
the beginning of the first track, the first bar on the track
indicator becomes brighter and the PAUSE sign lights. To
listen to the disc, start play by touching PAUSE. The
PAUSE sign will go off and the disc will play.
Any track can be entered in the memory for later play-
ing while using SCAN to preview the tracks. For each
wanted track, touch STORE while the track is playing. The
indicator bar will turn on to indicate that the wanted track
is stored in the memory. The player will immediately
preview the next track, the indicator bar for that track will
blink on and off and all other non-stored indicator bars
will turn off.
If before you have previewed all tracks, you decide to
listen to all of the remaining tracks on the disc, touch
PLAY. The SCAN sign will go off and the remaining tracks
will play in their entirety, beginning with the track whose
bar was blinking.
When all tracks have been previewed, SCAN will go off,
the stored bars are displayed with the first stored bar
brighter and the PAUSE sign lights. To listen to the stored
program, touch PAUSE. The PAUSE sign will go off and
the disc will play the stored tracks in the sequence
selected.
THE DISPLAY
The display presents many different types of information.
TRACK INDICATOR: As soon as the POWER button is
touched, the player is switched on and the 20 numbered
vertical bars of the track indicator light. The track in-
dicator goes off again when the AC power is switched off.
When a disc has been placed in the drawer, it may be
closed by a touch on either the LOAD, PLAY or SCAN
touch-buttons. The moment the disc drawer closes. '00'
appears on the left of the display to show that the player
is reading the contents list encoded on the disc. After the
contents list has been read, the number of bars that re-
main lighted on the track indicator shows the number of
tracks on the disc, e.g. 14 for a disc with 14 tracks. The
bright bar indicates the track being played. If the LOAD
touch-button is used to close the drawer, the total time
on the disc is displayed, the bars for each track on the
disc light and below the numbers for the total time, the
words TIME and TOT for total also light.
If the PLAY touch-button is used to close the drawer the
display shows TIME RELative and the time of the music
being played from the track whose bar indicator is
brighter.
If the SCAN touch-button is used to close the drawer
the display shows TIME RELative and time of the music
played from the track whose bar indicator is blinking.
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