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The buttons are surrounded by a blue halo of light when the C 2 is turned on; the halo around
every button (except DIM and EXIT) glows brighter when that button is pressed, and remains
bright as long as the button’s function is active. The MUTE and MENU buttons stay active and
bright until you turn them off. The SOURCE and SURROUND buttons, on the lower row, stay
active and illuminated for 5 seconds, or for as long as you keep turning the knob to alter their set-
tings. The ZONE button stays active and illuminated for 10 seconds, or for as long as you keep
altering control settings. When any of these three buttons is active, the front-panel display will
show the name of the control; for SOURCE and SURROUND it will also show a circular arrow
(indicating that you can make selections for that button by turning the knob). When you turn the
knob, the OSD on your video screen will show the settings for each input as you reach it.
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When the front-panel ON-OFF button is switched off, the halo around it glows soft blue and the
Parasound logo glows soft red. When the C 2 is turned on, the logo becomes brighter, the halos
around the other buttons glow, and the front-panel display turns on. (Always turn the C 2 off
with this button, or with one of the remote controls, before turning off the master power switch
on the rear panel; this will prevent turn-off thumps being heard through your speakers and will
ensure that your current source and volume settings aren’t lost.)
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The ZONE button selects whether the front-panel controls will affect the main (local) zone
(where the C 2 is) or the second (remote) zone. While the Zone button is active, all front-panel
and remote-control commands affect the remote zone in the same way they’d normally affect
the main zone. The display clearly shows when the C 2 is in remote zone mode.
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The SOURCE button turns the control knob into an input selector that cycles backward and for-
ward through the audio and audio-video inputs.
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The SURROUND button turns the control knob into a selector that cycles backward and forward
through the available sound patterns (surround modes). These patterns include various flavors of real
and generated surround, stereo, and mono; the selection changes to match whatever input you’ve
currently selected.
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The two jacks at the far left of the panel are for headphones and for the calibration microphone
supplied with the C 2 for automatic surround calibration (see pages 29-30 on “Adjustments,
Menus, and Setup,” pages 29-30). When you plug headphones in, the C 2 shuts off all main-
zone outputs and switches out of surround mode. Recording and remote-zone outputs are not
affected. When headphones are plugged in, “PHON” precedes volume readouts on the built-in
display or OSD.
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To the right of the jacks are the infrared sensor for remote control, the MUTE button (which cuts
off the outputs in whichever zone you’re controlling at the time), and DIM (which switches dis-
play brightness between normal and dimmed level), Muting is automatically disabled when you
raise the volume.
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The status display normally shows you the current source, operating modes, etc. for either the
main or remote zone. In setup modes, it shows what you’re adjusting and how it’s currently set.
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The MENU button is used in setup modes.
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The EXIT button is used to exit setup menus.
All these functions can be controlled from the C 2’s Master remote, and some are controllable
from the SideKick. Both remotes can also be set up to control other audio and audio-video
components in your system (see this manual’s chapter on “Using the Master and SideKick
Remotes,” pages 16-21), as long as those components are placed where the infrared beams
from the remotes can reach them.
In the next three chapters, we’ll cover the C 2’s controls in more detail, including setup adjust-
ments you (or your installer) can make to optimize the C 2 for your setup.
GETTING STARTED continued
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