User manual MERIDIAN AUDIO D5K

[. . . ] MERIDIAN DSP5000 USER MANUAL Meridian Audio Ltd 14 Clifton Road Huntingdon Cambridgeshire PE18 7EJ England Tel (0) 480 52144 Telex 32577 (MERIDN) Fax (0) 480 459934 Meridian America Inc. 3800 Camp Creek Parkway Building 2400 Suite 112 Atlanta GA 30331 USA Tel (404) 344-7111 Fax (404) 346-7111 Version 4: 500 mode compatible with MSR Surround, 2-room and Meridian Digital Theatre: July 1994 Author: J R Stuart "Boothroyd|Stuart Meridian", MERIDIÅN and Meridian Digital Theatre are registered trademarks of Meridian Audio Ltd © Meridian Audio Ltd 1993, 1994 2 Contents Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 About this manual . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 DSP5000 description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Master and slave speakers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Centre, left, right and surround . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Control. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 General background . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Unpacking the DSP5000. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Meridian System Remote (MSR). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Installing your DSP5000. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 General precautions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Customising features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Siting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Starting off with DSP5000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Checking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Switching on . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 If there are no lights. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Starting the DSP5000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Standby . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Basic operation of DSP5000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Selecting sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Putting the DSP5000 in Standby . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Coming out of Standby . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Changing the display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Volume . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Mute . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 The menu system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Balance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Tilt control. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Bass control. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Phase. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Axis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Storing settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Recalling settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Controlling a Meridian CD player . . . . . . . . 25 Use of handset to control CD . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Playing a disc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Scanning a disc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Selecting tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Selecting index points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Setting up programmed sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Use with 504, 204 or 604 FM tuner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Operation summary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 On the remote control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Customising DSP5000: an overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 504, 204 or 604 does not respond. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 562, 201, 603 or 601 does not respond. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [. . . ] 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. Press the menu e key Preamplifier options The first digit in the system menu identifies the dominant preamplifier in the system. 1 This choice also permits you to make the DSP5000 the system subwoofer. DSP5000 User Guide Customising using Config 35 The display looks like this: Cd ??The first letters tell you which options are available to you, as follows: · 500 tells you that this system operates in Meridian 500-Series mode. Also use this if the DSP5000 is the only controllable preamplifier connected (i. e. the source keys on the MSR will only select between the two inputs of the DSP5000). means that the preamplifier for this system will be a Meridian 201, 601, 603 or compatible, and that source keys on the MSR will automatically switch the inputs on the preamplifier regardless of other selections. · Cd means that the preamplifier for this system will be a Meridian CD/Pre (e. g. The first four input keys (CD, Radio, LP and Tape1) on the MSR will automatically switch the inputs on the CD/Pre regardless of other selections. Press n or s (menu keys) Configuring options This sections allows you to make choices about whether the speaker will be system controller. After a Type the display shows: Auto Choose from: · Auto This preferred option allows the system to `Auto Configure'. · N. Con Sets the speaker to be `Not Controller' if it is a Master. · Con Sets the speaker to be `Controller' if it is a Master. System address 1. The 500 Comms allows for up to eight systems connected to the same bus for multiroom installations. Unless specifically instructed otherwise by Meridian personnel; or your dealer, leave this set to 1. Product address 1. The 500 Comms allows for up to eight systems connected to the same bus for multiroom installations. Unless specifically instructed otherwise by Meridian personnel; or your dealer, leave this set to 1. System protocols Multiroom systems have protocols which allow you to define the extent to which any room can interfere with the main system. You can choose to DSP5000 User Guide Customising using Config 36 have the DSP5000 ignore the Standby state of the associated preamplifier, looking after its own Standby independently. [. . . ] As its name suggests, however, it is very useful for testing the installation and the speakers. The main advantages of Test mode are that you can directly display which of the DSP5000's physical inputs has been selected, and that entering or leaving this mode does not change any of the programming you may have done previously. Switch on the power supply to the master speaker only while continuously pressing the Next key on the MSR. Switch on the power supply to the slave speaker only while continuously pressing the Previous key on the MSR 1L 65 4. [. . . ]