front panel
controls
1
Standby
When the CD player is plugged into a live
wall socket and the POWER switch is turned
ON, it will power up in ‘standby‘ mode and
the LED (Light Emitting Diode) in the
STANDBY button will glow red. In this mode
the internal circuitry of the MCD 600 is
powered up but disabled, so that it consumes
very little power and its audio output is
muted by a relay.
When the STANDBY button is pressed the
MCD 600’s circuitry will be activated and,
after a few seconds delay, the audio outputs
will be enabled. During this delay period the
LED in the STANDBY button will flash blue.
When the outputs are un-muted it will glow
blue continuously. The blue-coloured display
will illuminate, briefly showing a single digit
‘0’, followed by ‘-NO DISC-’.
When the STANDBY button is pressed again
the CD player will be returned to standby
mode. The drawer, if open, will close, the
LED in the STANDBY button will glow red
again and the display will be extinguished.
CAUTION: WHEN IN STANDBY MODE THE
INTERNAL CIRCUITRY OF THE MCD
600
IS
STILL LIVE, SO ALL SAFETY PRECAUTIONS MUST
BE FOLLOWED.
2
Infra-red receiver
The infra-red (IR) remote control receiver
is mounted behind the window, just above
the display. It must not be obscured when the
CD player is to be operated using the remote
control handset. Where possible it is best to
arrange that the IR receiver is in ‘line-of-sight’
of the remote handset.
Whole CD display
(Figure 1)
3
Display
The operation of the player is indicated
on a high quality blue Vacuum Fluorescent
Display (VFD). Track number, index number
and track time are shown simultaneously,
together with indication of the operating
mode – see Figure 1.
4
Disc drawer
The OPEN/CLOSE button controls the
drawer. The drawer will close automatically
if left open for 60 seconds or more. It will
accept either normal 120mm CDs, or small
80mm CDs.
5
Open/close
Press this button to open or close the disc
drawer. The drawer may also be closed by
pushing the drawer front gently. When the
drawer is open the display will indicate track
number ‘0’. When the drawer is closed with
no disc in the player the display will indicate
‘-NO DISC-’.
Table of contents
(Figure 2)
When a disc is inserted and the drawer closed
the CD player will read the disc’s Table of
Contents (TOC) and display the total number
of tracks and total playing time of the disc.
After about 4 seconds the display will revert
to showing just ‘0’. This condition is called
STOP mode.
If there is ‘CD text’ information present on
the disc the symbol ‘CD TEXT’ will illuminate
and the TOC will be displayed for about 4
seconds, after which the display will indicate
the disc title, scrolling it across the display
screen if necessary.
6 Play/Pause
When a disc is present and the player in
STOP mode, a single press of the PLAY/PAUSE
key will start the disc playing from the first
track, and illuminate the
symbol. When the
disc is playing, pressing PLAY/PAUSE will put
the player in PAUSE mode and illuminate
(see Figure 3). In PAUSE mode the disc
is still spinning and the laser head is kept at
the same location, so that if PLAY/PAUSE
is pressed yet again the disc will re-start from
exactly the same point in the music at which
it was originally paused.
With the disc drawer open, it is possible
to load a disc and press PLAY/PAUSE directly
(without pressing OPEN/CLOSE). This action
causes the drawer to close and the disc to
start playing from the first track. The TOC
is not displayed.
Pause mode
(Figure 3)
4
standby
play/pause
skip/scan
stop
open/close
operating your
system
Track calendar
