SPHINX
Myth 9 Service Manual
8
To temporarily halt Play (PAUSE)
All Play modes can be temporarily interrupted with
the
m
PAUSE button. Another press on this button
(or on the
m
PLAY button) will resume Play mode.
To stop Play (STOP)
Pressing the
m
STOP button during any mode will
de-activate this mode completely, the CD will stop
and the display will show the same CD data as right
after placing a new CD in the tray.
At any time you can also press the
m
OPEN button:
all modes will stop immediately and the tray will
open.
Power off
You switch the Myth 9 off (to stand-by) with the
m
STBY button (13).
Special modes for recording CD’s
Recording a CD is highly simplified with two special
modes:
Peak
and
Fade
. The first will automatically
find the loudest signal level on the CD, the second
enables you to fade tracks in and out.
The
m
PEAK button (10) activates the:
Peak mode when the CD has stopped (STOP)
Fade mode when the CD is playing.
The PEAK mode
In Peak mode the CD player scans and analyses
the CD (the PEAK indication will blink). Finally the
display will show under TRACK the track number
and under TRACK TIME the time code of the
loudest part on the CD.
About 3 sec of this part will then continuously be
repeated (the time display will fallback to the starting
point) and the signal is sent to the output.
You can now simply adjust the recording level of the
recorder to the maximum value. So you don’t have
to worry about sudden signal peaks causing
distortion or noise caused by too low a recording
level!
You may de-activate the Peak mode by pressing the
m
PLAY,
m
STOP or
m
OPEN button.
The FADE mode
With the Fade mode you can fade-out a track
(slowly decrease the level to 0), create a longer
space between two tracks and fade-in a track.
During Play mode (with the correct track and at the
correct moment!) press the
m
PEAK button. The
display will show sequentially (this will take some 5
seconds):
»
FADE
≡≡
«
»
FADE
=
«
»
FADE
−
«
At the same time the signal level is slowly reduced
to 0 (fade-out) and the Pause mode is selected. The
display shows the PAUSE indication (left), the track
number and the time at which the track has been
halted.
To resume playback you have two options:
1.
Pressing the
m
PEAK button resumes playback
and the display will show (this takes some 5
seconds):
»
FADE
−
«
»
FADE
=
«
»
FADE
≡≡
«
At the same time the signal level is slowly increased
from 0 to the previous level (fade-in).
2.
Pressing the
m
PAUSE or
m
PLAY button will
extinguish the PAUSE indication and the track will
resume playback, only now with the level
immediately at maximum: there is no fade-in!
