Media Equipment Operation Guide

• Speaker Switch: The receiver is designed to have up to two sets of speakers connected. There are no speakers attached to this unit at this time, so leave the speaker switch set to OFF. Connect your headphones to the headphone jack next to the speaker switch.
• BASS and TREBLE controls: These controls affect the tone quality of the sound played through the headphones. These controls have NO EFFECT on sound recorded to cassette. Adjust to your liking.
• BASS EQ, INFRA DEFEAT, MONO, DYN SEP DEFEAT: Leave these four switches OFF (out).
• TAPE MONITOR: This button overrides the selector switch and directs the cassette player directly to the headphones. To listen to the cassette player through the receiver, press this button. To listen to anything else, leave this switch off (out). You can use the Tape Monitor to listen to what is being recorded when you are recording.
• Selector Switch: Use this rotary switch to select your source signal for listening or recording: CD player, Phono (turntable), or the internal AM/FM Tuner. There is nothing connected to the video input. Whichever source you choose with this switch is automatically routed to the cassette recorder.
• Low Level and Loudness switches: The LOUDNESS circuit compensates for a loss of fidelity at low volume levels. Since you are listening through headphones, you will probably want to leave these switches OFF. Like all the other sound controls on the receiver, these switches ONLY affect what you hear in the headphones...not what gets recorded to tape.
• BALANCE and VOLUME controls: These controls affect the stereo position and the total signal level in your headphones. These controls have no effect on recording.
• Tuning bars, AM/FM button: These controls allow you to set the AM/FM tuner. There is no antenna connected, so it is unlikely that you will get suitable reception of your favorite radio station with this unit.

II. CD Player

The unit is equipped with an early-model CD player with simplified controls. Use the OPEN/CLOSE button to get your disc into and out of the player; use the PLAY and SKIP buttons to choose the track you want to listen to. The controls are self-explanatory. The DISPLAY button allows you to choose between the track number, track time, or time remaining on the numeric display; the green light next to the display will tell you which you are looking at.

To listen to the CD player, connect your headphones to the receiver and set the receiver input switch to CD. To record a CD to cassette, set the receiver input switch to CD and adjust the controls on the cassette recorder as needed.

III. Cassette Recorder

The basic controls on the cassette recorder should be familiar, but some may not be. Here are the basic settings:

• MPX Filter: Leave this OFF unless you are recording from the FM tuner.
• Bias Adjust: Set this to "0" unless you know what you are doing.
• Dolby NR: Leave OFF, or pick your favorite if your cassette player features Dolby.
• Tape Selector: Match this to the kind of tape you are using. For normal (FeO2) tapes, set to Normal; for Type II tapes (CrO2) set to Chrome; for Type III tapes (Metal), set the switch to Metal.
• Record Level: There are bargraph meters on the recorder to indicate the strength of the signal being recorded to tape. Adjust the record level so that the loudest passages peak at or near the "0" point on the meter...where the green bars stop and the red bars begin.

IV. Turntable

To play or record from the turntable, begin by setting the receiver input selector switch to PHONO.

The rotation speed is controlled by the button at the left front edge of the unit; set for either 45 RPM or 33 RPM.

Place your record on the turntable, and manually move the tonearm from the rest at the right edge of the turntable to the surface of the record. Use extreme care as the record, the stylus, and the tonearm are all delicate.

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