3
General Controls
Main Unit
• OPEN/ CLOSE -
Opens or closes
disc tray.
• DISC 1 - 5 -
Selects disc tray 1, 2,
3, 4 and 5 directly.
• DISC SKIP
- Press repeatedly to
change to desired disc tray.
• POWER
- Turns power on/ off.
(
POWER/ ECO
for Thomson model
- Press and hold during standby
(off) mode to go to ECO mode.)
• DEMO/ DIMMER/ CD DISPLAY
- Turns feature demonstration on/
off. Adjusts brightness of display.
Displays disc details during CD
playback.
• PHONES
- Connects head-
phones.
• CLOCK
- Sets and displays clock
time.
• TIMER
- Sets and turns on/off
the timer.
•
BAND/ AUTO PROG
- Selects
radio band and enters auto tuner
programming.
•
FM ST/ SCAN
- Starts auto FM
station searching. Selects between
FM mono and stereo sound.
•
X-SURROUND -
Turns surrond
sound on/ off.
•
SOURCE -
Selects among tape,
CD, tuner and auxillary mode.
PLAY/ PAUSE
- starts
and pauses CD/ tape
playback
STOP
- Stops CD or tape
playback.
REWIND/ FFWD
- Starts
backward or forward
search of CD/ tape.
• EQ BAND
- Selects base, mid
and treble range
•
CUSTOM EQ -
Selects self-creat-
ed equalizer curve.
•
EQ
- Selects among preset equal-
izer curves.
•
RECORD
- Starts recording.
•
DECK 1/2
- Selects between tape
deck 1 or 2.
•
B. BOOST
- Turns
on/ off bass boost.
•
SET
- Sets tuner
preset or CD pro-
gram.
• HELP MODE -
Turns help mode
on/ off to display
useful information
about system keys
and features.
• VOLUME
-
increases or
decreases volume.
• SHUFFLE
(
MIX
for Thomson
model) - Enters ran-
dom playback
mode.
•
INTRO (CT/ INTRO
for Thomson
model
) -
turns on/ off introductory
mode to play the first 10 seconds
of each track on a disc.
• REPEAT
(
RDS/ REPEAT
for
Thomson model) - Selects among
repeat modes.
• ATS
- Sets up an automatic track
skip program.
• MULTI JOG STATION
- Increases
or decreases numerical values for
clock & timer setting, tuner preset
station selection, track selection
etc.
Remote Control
You can control most of the func-
tion keys as those are present on
the main until through the
remote control. However, the fol-
lowing keys are present on the
remote control only:
•
AUX/ TUNER/ CD/ TAPE
- selects
respective modes directly.
•
EQ PRESET
- selects among pre-
set equalizer curve.
•
VOL -/ VOL +
- adjusts volume.
•
MUTE
- mutes sound.
•
PAUSE
- pauses CD/ tape play-
back and recording
•
TRACK REV/ TRACK FWD
- skips
CD tracks or winds tape forward
or backward. Press and hold to
start quick search through CD.
•
SLEEP
- enters SLEEP mode.
•
PRESET
- selects tuner preset
stations.
B. BOOST
X-SURR.
S I M U L T A N E O U S P L A Y A N D L O A D S Y S T E M
5
D I S C
C H A N G E R
-
M
U
LT
I J O
G S TA
T I
O
N
STOP
REWIND PLAY
/STOP
F.FWD
REPEAT
INTRO
SHUFFLE
ATS
B.BOOST
RECORD
APP
DECK 1/2
EQ
EQ
CUSTOM
BAND
EQ
SOURCE
X-SURROUND
CD
TAPE
TUNER
AUX
DIMMER/DEMO
CD DISPLAY
POWER
FM ST/SCAN
TIMER
CLOCK
BAND/AUTO PROG.
PHONES
S O U N D S Y S T E M
KEVLAR
S E T
HELP MODE
VOLUME
OPEN/CLOSE
TEXT
DISC
1
DISC
2
DISC
4
DISC
5
DISC
3
D I G I T A L P L L
SYNTHESIZED TUNER
PUSH OPEN
RECORD/PLAYBACK
PLAYBACK
DECK 1
DECK 2
PUSH OPEN
DIGITAL FULL LOGIC DECK
DIGITAL FULL LOGIC DECK
+
-s
URROUND
X
X
DISC SKIP
EN
POWER
AUX
TAPE
CD
TUNER
EQ PRESET
MUTE
VOL
VOL
+
--
PLAY
PAUSE
HELP
TRACK REV
STOP
TRACK FWD
REPEAT
DISC SKIP
SHUFFLE
RECORD
X-SURROUND
PRESET
SLEEP
B.BOOST
PLAY
PAUSE
HELP
TRACK REV
STOP
TRACK FWD
REPEAT
DISC SKIP
MIX
RECORD
SURROUND
TUNING
SLEEP
B.BOOST
R D
S M O D E
P T
Y SEARCH
POWER/ECO
@AUX
TAPE
CD
TUNER
EQ PRESET
MUTE
VOL
VOL
+
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Thomson
Model
RCA Model
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