User manual KENWOOD KDC-X917 Instruction Manual

[. . . ] KDC-X917 KDC-X817 KDC-9017 KDC-X717 CD-RECEIVER INSTRUCTION MANUAL COMPACT DIGITAL AUDIO Take the time to read through this instruction manual. Familiarity with installation and operation procedures will help you obtain the best performance from your new CD-receiver. For your records Record the serial number, found on the back of the unit, in the spaces designated on the warranty card, and in the space provided below. Refer to the model and serial numbers whenever you call upon your KENWOOD dealer for information or service on the product. Model KDC-X917, KDC-X817, KDC-9017, KDC-X717 Serial number B64-1891-00 (KW) Contents English Safety precautions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Handling Compact discs. . . . . . . . . . . 6 General features Power . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Volume. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Attenuator. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Switching Modes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Loudness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 System Q. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Speaker & Woofer setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Faceplate Angle Adjustment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Switching Full-Screen Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Switching the Upper Part Display. . . . . . . . . 12 Switching the Lower Part Display . . . . . . . . 12 Forced Closing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Removing the Faceplate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Non-Fading Output . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Tuner features Tuning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Station Preset Memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Auto Memory Entry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Direct Access Tuning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Station Name Preset (SNPS) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Station Name Preset Play (SNPP) . . . . . . . 23 Menu settings Menu System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Security Code . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Touch Sensor Tone. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Manual Time Adjustment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Calendar Adjustment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Calendar Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Memo Mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Automatic Time Adjustment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Selectable Illumination. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Switching Display Mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Icon/Spectrum analyzer Select . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Font Select. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Brightness level adjustment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Dimmer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Time setting for removing the faceplate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 System Q. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Built-in Amp Mute Control. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Dual Zone System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 External Amp Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Traffic Information Function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Clean Reception System Circuit (CRSC) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Text Scroll . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 RDS features RDS (Radio Data System). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Alarm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Radio Text Scroll. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Program Type (PTY) Function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Registration of a station as a PTY . . . . . . . . 25 CD/External disc control features Playing CDs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Playing Other Disc mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Fast Forwarding and Reversing Disc Play . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Track Search . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Disc Search. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Track / Disc Repeat. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Track Scan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Random Play. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Text Scroll . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Presetting Disc Names (DNPS) . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Magazine Random Play . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Direct Track Search . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Direct Disc Search . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Disc Name Preset Play (DNPP) . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Audio control features Audio Control Setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Bass Center Frequency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Bass Level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Bass Quality Factor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Bass Extend. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Middle Center Frequency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Middle Level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Middle Quality Factor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Treble Center Frequency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Treble Level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Balance Level. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Fader Level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Non-Fading Level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 High-pass Filter Frequency for Front Output. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 High-pass Filter Frequency for Rear Output. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Low-pass Filter Frequency for Non-Fading Output. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Phase for Non-Fading Output . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Volume Offset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Basic Operations of remote. . . . 40 Installation Accessories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Installation Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Connecting Wires to Terminals . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Installation (non-Japanese cars). . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Locking the faceplate to the unit. . . . . . . . . . 45 Removing the Unit. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Installation (Japanese-cars). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Troubleshooting Guide . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Specifications. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 --2-- 2Warning 2CAUTION Use of controls or adjustments or performance of procedures other than those specified herein may result in hazardous radiation exposure. [. . . ] Play starts at the beginning of the displayed disc. NOTE NOTE Repeat play is canceled when you eject the disc. Track Scan Successively play the beginning of each track on a disc until you find the track that you want to listen to. Starting the Track Scan: Press the SCAN button. "Scan ON" is displayed and the first 10 seconds of each track will be played, in order. The track number currently being heard blinks in the display. Stopping to Listen to the Track Being Scanned: Press the 38 or SCAN button again to stop the scan and keep on listening to a track normally. NOTE "Load" is displayed when discs are being exchanged on the disc changer. The track scan function is canceled when you eject the disc. The track scan function only scans each track on a disc once. Track / Disc Repeat Repeat playing the track or the disc currently being listened to. Turning Repeat Play On/Off: Press the REP button to switch repeat track/disc play on and off as follows: M Random Play Play all the tracks on the current disc in random order. 1 Press the RDM button to switch random play on and off. "Random ON" is displayed when random play is turned on. The track number will change over and over in the display as the next track is being selected. When the track has been selected, play will begin. The selected track number blinks in the display as it is being played. NOTE (For disc changers) When all the tracks on a certain disc have been played using random play, the next disc on the changer will start playing using the same function. Track Repeat ON M M Disc Repeat ON (Function of disc changers) Repeat OFF "Track Repeat ON"/"Repeat ON" is displayed and the track number blinks in the display when track repeat is on. "Disc Repeat ON" is displayed and the disc number blinks in the display when disc repeat is on. 2 To change the track being heard, press the button. Another track will be selected and played. -- 28 -- NOTE Random play is canceled when you eject the disc. Text Scroll This function permits the text to be scrolled and the entire text to be displayed. The scrolling method differs depending on the setting of scrolling in the menu. To scroll automatically: Press the DISP or CLK button to display the disc or track title on the upper or lower part display. The display of the text will be scrolled repeatedly. To scroll manually: 1 Press the DISP button to display the disc or track title on the upper part display. 2 Pressing the DISP button for at least one second results in one scrolling display of the titles. NOTE Please see the menu settings (page 33) about switching between manual scrolling and automatic scrolling. You can scroll text when the vertical division display mode has been selected by the switching display mode function. For details refer to the Switching Display Mode page for the menu settings. (page 33) -- 29 -- CD/External disc control features English Presetting Disc Names (DNPS) Store the names of discs to be displayed when played. Direct Alphabet Input (Function of remote with number/letter entry buttons : KDC-X917/X817/X717 only) If the disc changers that were manufactured and sold after 1997 (except for KDC-C560) are connected, you can directly input letters using the number/letter entry buttons on the remote. Example: Use the following table to enter the name "DANCE". Character Button to press # Times pressed NOTE 1 Play the disc whose name you want to preset. NOTE This function is not available for disc changers that do not feature the Disc Name Preset function. The Disc Name Preset function cannot be used during the Magazine random play as well as while a disc title or track title is displayed. "D" "A" "N" "C" "E" the name. NOTE #3 #2 #6 #2 #3 1 1 2 3 2 2 Press the NAME button for at least two seconds. "NAME SET" is displayed and the disc name preset mode is entered. The cursor blinks in the position where character input can be made. 3 Press either the 4 or button to move the cursor to the desired position. [. . . ] A non-compatible CD changer is being used to play the CD-R/CD-RW. Conduct finalization processing with CD recorder. Use a CD changer compatible with CD-R/CD-RW to play. If the following situations, consult your nearest service center: Even though the disc changer is connected, the Disc Changer Mode is not on, with "AUX" showing in the display during the Changer Mode. Even though no device (KCA-S210A, CA-C1AX, KDC-CPS87, KDC-CX87, KDC-CPS85, KDC-CX-85, KDC-CPS82 or KDC-CX82) is connected, the AUX Mode is entered when switching modes. -- 50 -- The following messages are displayed when certain problems are occurring in your system. Take the recommended actions. Eject No disc magazine has been loaded in the changer. [. . . ]