User manual MERIDIAN AUDIO D5K5

[. . . ] MERIDIAN DSP5500 USER MANUAL © 1992, 1993, 1995, 1996 Meridian Audio Ltd http://www. meridian-audio. com 2 Contents Sales and service in the UK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Sales and service in the USA. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Designed & manufactured in the UK by. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 About this manual . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 DSP5500 description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Master and slave speakers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Centre, left, right and surround . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Control. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 General background . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Unpacking the DSP5500. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Meridian System Remote (MSR). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Installing your DSP5500. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 General precautions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Customising features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Siting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Starting off with DSP5500 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Checking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Switching on . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 If there are no lights. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Starting the DSP5500 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Standby . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Basic operation of DSP5500 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Selecting sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Putting the DSP5500 in Standby . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Coming out of Standby . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Changing the display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Volume . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Mute . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 The menu system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Balance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Tilt control. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Bass control. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Phase. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Axis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Storing settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Recalling settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Controlling a Meridian CD player . . . . . . . . 24 Use of handset to control CD . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Playing a disc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Scanning a disc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Selecting tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Selecting index points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Setting up programmed sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Use with 504, 204 or 604 FM tuner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Operation summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 On the remote control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Customising DSP5500: an overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [. . . ] One must be left, the other right; similarly one must be the master and the other a slave. Make a note of your choices by marking both speakers on the back, in the area provided on the label. Use a pencil so that you can change the marking in future. You now have your speakers set up in the start Type of your choice. The following sections explain how to modify this setting to fine-tune the system. Note Under normal circumstances, you should not switch on the DSP5500s while any key on the MSR is being pressed. If you do this, you may accidentally select a new Type and change any previous programming. The Types are summarised in Appendix 1. Customising using Config For an overview of Config, see page 29 Config is a fine-tuning customising process carried out only on the master. It will not cause any difficulty if you accidentally go to Config for a slave, since the only options offered there will be left/right and master/slave. In Config you can make choices about the way in which your system responds to source-key selections. The important feature of Config (differentiating it from Type) is that you can use it to change any setting of the DSP5500 without erasing all the other setup choices you may have made. Config has three sorts of menu: · root menu · system menu · source menus DSP5500 User Guide Customising using Config 33 Inside Config you can move between them at will. CD Note In Config, the speaker is silenced. How to use Config 1. Switch off the master DSP5500, using the power switch on the back, and wait for 3 seconds 2. While pressing the 0 key on the remote control, switch the power on again. The display will indicate the root menu that shows the left/right and master/slave settings; for example, r. Release the 0 key Root menu options The root menu controls the overall operation of the DSP5500s, with options for master/slave and left/right. Selecting Config, as above or, at any stage in the Config programming process, 1. Pressing Clear or Off Choosing left or right To change a left speaker into a right speaker, or vice versa: 1. Press n or s on the remote control Note If you have started with Type 6 or selected `CEn. Y' elsewhere in Config, then you also have the choices `C' and `S' for Centre and Subwoofer. If you want the speaker to be a Centre in a 565-based system, choose `C'. 1 Choosing master or slave To change a master to a slave, or back again: 1. This display indicates a right slave. System menu To get into the system menu: 1. [. . . ] No No No No Channel selected Left Right Left Right Appendix 3 Calibrate mode WARNING: THIS MODE MAY CHANGE THE RESPONSE OF YOUR SPEAKER, AND SHOULD ONLY BE USED BY A QUALIFIED SERVICE ENGINEER. The process of calibration is carried out during production; it alters the level of tweeter to compensate for the variability found in drive units. It should therefore only be used if a drive unit needs to be replaced. The calibration levels are noted on the back panel. [. . . ]