Adjusting the sound
characteristics
You can adjust the bass, treble, balance, fader,
and subwoofer volume.
The bass and treble levels and subwoofer volume
can be stored independently for each source.
VOL control dial
1
Press (SOURCE) to select a source
(radio, CD, MD, or AUX).
2
Press the VOL control dial repeatedly
to select the item you want to adjust.
Each time you press the VOL control dial, the
item changes as follows:
DSO t EQ7 t BAS (bass)
t TRE (treble) t BAL (left-right)
t FAD (front-rear)
t SUB (subwoofer volume)
3
Rotate the VOL control dial to adjust
the selected item.
Note
Adjust within 3 seconds after selecting the item.
Quickly attenuating the
sound
(With the rotary commander or the card
remote commander)
Press (ATT) on the rotary commander
or card remote commander.
"ATT on" appears in the display momentarily.
To restore the previous volume level, press
(ATT) again.
Tip
When the interface cable of a car telephone is
connected to the ATT lead, the unit decreases the
volume automatically when a telephone call comes in
(Telephone ATT function).
Changing the sound and
display settings
— Menu
The following items can be set:
Set Up
• Clock (page 11)
• Beep — to turn the beeps on or off.
• AUX-A (page 26) — to turn the AUX source
display on or off.
Display
• D.Info (Dual Information) — to display the
clock and the play mode at the same time (on).
Functions only when SA is not set to B-1 – B-5.
• SA (Spectrum Analyzer) (page 25) — to
change the display pattern of the equalizer
display.
• Demo
– Select "on" to activate the Demo display.
The Demo display will appear about 10
seconds after the unit is turned off.
• Dimmer — to change the brightness of the
display.
– Select "Auto" to dim the display only when
you turn the lights on.
– Select "on" to dim the display.
– Select "off" to deactivate the Dimmer.
• Contrast — to adjust the contrast if the
indications on the display are not recognizable
because of the unit's installation position.
• Color — to select from a range of 7 display
colors.
• A.Scrl (Auto Scroll)
– Select "on" to scroll all automatically
displayed names exceeding 9 characters.
– When Auto scroll is set to off and the disc/
track name is changed, the disc/track name
does not scroll.
Play Mode
• Local on/off (Local seek mode) (page 16)
– Select "on" to only tune into stations with
stronger signals.
• Mono on/off (Monaural mode) (page 16)
– Select "on" to hear FM stereo broadcast in
monaural. Select "off" to return to normal
mode.
• IF Auto/Wide (page 16)
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