POWER-1.
Touch the POWER button to turn the player on.
The TRACK, INDEX, TIME, eLAPsed time and
VOLUME indicators will light up in the display area.
Touch POWER again and the player is turned off
and the indicators turn off.
LOAD-2.
Touch the LOAD button and the LED above this
button will illuminate, then after 1 second the
drawer will open. If the drawer is obstructed, it will
not continue to open. Should this happen remove
the obstruction, touch LOAD twice in succession to
bring the drawer fully out.
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 each track on
the disc or store tracks from it, and LOAD if you
want to program the disc. 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.
Using LOAD to close the drawer, permits the laser
pen to read the contents list and then display the
number of tracks and the total time encoded on the
disc. After reading the contents list, the MCD 7007
switches to stand-by mode ready for further
instructions.
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
properly in the drawer and label side is up.
To close the drawer when it is empty touch the
LOAD button. The DAMAGED DISC/MUTE sign will
light. To prevent the entry of dust, do not leave the
drawer open.
Opening the drawer during play, will stop the disc.
PLAY-3.
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. When play begins,
elapse playing time is displayed and the eLAPsed
indicator lights.
To go back to the beginning of a track while it is
playing, touch PLAY. The track is then repeated from
the beginning. When all the tracks have been played,
the track indicator, the total elapsed time and the
DAMAGED DISC/MUTE indicator will light. All
indicators except the volume display turn off.
VOLUME-4.
Volume may be adjusted by using the VOLUME
or VOLUME on the front panel or on the remote
control. Adjustment of the volume is performed by
an electronically switched precision ladder
attenuator.
The Mclntosh electronic precision ladder
attenuator adjusts volume by C
2
MOS transistor
switches that select the right combinations of highly
accurate deposits of resistive material for the volume
programmed.
The entire range of volume adjustment is 66 dB in
2 dB increments. Left and right tracking is controlled
to a fraction of a dB. Because there aren't any
moving parts, the volume adjustment cannot
generate noise or misalignment.
The VOLUME indicator in the message center is a
10 segment display. As volume is increased, more
segments are lighted to indicate relative volume.
SCAN-16.
The first 10 seconds of each track will be played
when the SCAN button is used to initiate play. As
each track is previewed the SCAN indicator, the
TRACK number and the eLAPsed TIME is displayed.
When the tracks have been previewed, the SCAN
indicator turns off, the laser pick-up returns to the
beginning of the first track. The total number of
tracks and the total time will be displayed in the
message center.
If, before you have previewed all tracks, you
decide to listen to all of the remaining tracks on the
disc, touch PLAY. The SCAN indicator will go off and
the remaining tracks will play in their entirety,
beginning with the track indicated in the message
center.
Any track can be entered in the memory for later
playing while using SCAN. To enter a track, touch
STORE while the track is playing and the TRACK will
be inserted in the memory. The player will preview
the next track and the indicator for that track will be
displayed.
When all tracks have been previewed, SCAN will
go off. To listen to the stored program, touch PLAY
And the disc will play the stored tracks in the
sequence selected.
OPERATION 9