User manual MERIDIAN AUDIO D5KC

[. . . ] MERIDIAN DSP5000C 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 1: 500 mode compatible with MSR, Surround, 2-room and Meridian Digital Theatre: August 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 DSP5000C description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Master and slave speakers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Centre, left, right and surround . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Control. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 General background . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Unpacking the DSP5000C . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Meridian System Remote (MSR). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Installing your DSP5000C . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 General precautions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Customising features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Siting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Starting off with DSP5000C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Checking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Switching on . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 If there are no lights. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Starting the DSP5000C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Standby . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Basic operation of DSP5000C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Selecting sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Putting the DSP5000C 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. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Bass control. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Phase. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Axis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Storing settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Recalling settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Controlling a Meridian CD player . . . . . . . . 23 Use of handset to control CD . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Playing a disc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Scanning a disc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Selecting tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Selecting index points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Setting up programmed sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Use with 504, 204 or 604 FM tuner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Operation summary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 On the remote control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Customising DSP5000C: an overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Meridian Digital Theatre and surround systems. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Sound from only one channel of a pair. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 504, 204 or 604 does not respond. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 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[. . . ] Config has three sorts of menu: · root menu · system menu DSP5000C User Guide Customising using Config 32 · source menus Inside Config you can move between them at will. Switch off the master DSP5000C, 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/centre and master/slave settings; for example, C. Release the 0 key Root menu options The root menu controls the overall operation of the DSP5000Cs, with options for master/slave and left/right/centre/subwoofer. Selecting Config, as above or, at any stage in the Config programming process, 1. Pressing Clear or Off Choosing left, right or centre To change a left speaker into a right or centre, (or vice versa): 1. Press n or s on the remote control Note Only if you have started with Type 6 or selected `CEn. Y' elsewhere in Config, will you get 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 DSP5000C the system subwoofer. DSP5000C User Guide Customising using Config 33 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 DSP5000C is the only controllable preamplifier connected (i. e. the source keys on the MSR will only select between the two inputs of the DSP5000C). 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 section 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. We recommend trying to set the system using Auto. [. . . ] The main advantages of Test mode are that you can directly display which of the DSP5000C'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. The speaker will display DSP5000C User Guide Appendix 56 1L 65 and the red light will be on. Switch on the power supply to the slave speaker only while continuously pressing the Previous key on the MSR 1L 65 4. [. . . ]