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Cat. No. 13-1296
OWNER’S MANUAL
Please read before using this equipment.
SYSTEM 748
System 748
Mini Stereo Component System
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13-1296.fm Page 2 Wednesday, July 14, 1999 7:16 PM FEATURES Your Optimus System 748 Mini Stereo Automatic CD Changer æ lets you Component System offers all the ver- load and play up to three CDs. satile features you need for excellent stereo sound and entertainment, com- Automatic Search æ lets you quickly bined in one compact package. locate and play any track on the load- ed CDs. The system includes a 3-disc carousel CD changer with 32-track programma- Audible Search æ lets you quickly lo-
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13-1296.fm Page 3 Wednesday, July 14, 1999 7:16 PM Consecutive Play æ automatically Warning: To prevent fire or shock plays one side of two tapes in se- hazard, do not expose this prod- quence. uct to rain or moisture. Auto-Stop — protects the tape and CAUTION tape-handling parts by automatically stopping the tape when it reaches the RISK OF ELECTRIC SHOCK. ! DO NOT OPEN. end. CAUTION: TO REDUCE THE RISK OF Note: The System 748 requires two ELECTRIC SHOCK, DO NOT REMOVE COVER OR BACK. NO USER
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13-1296.fm Page 4 Wednesday, July 14, 1999 7:16 PM FCC INFORMATION This system complies with the limits for a Class B digital device as speci- fied in Part 15 of FCC Rules. These limits provide reasonable protection against TV or radio interference in a residential area. However, your sys- tem might cause TV or radio interfer- ence even when it is operating properly. To eliminate interference, you can try one or more of the following corrective measures. • Reorient or relocate the TV or ra- d
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13-1296.fm Page 5 Wednesday, July 14, 1999 7:16 PM CONTENTS Preparation .................................................................................................................... 6 Connecting the Speakers ........................................................................................ 6 Connecting the FM Antenna ................................................................................... 6 Connecting to Power ..........................................................
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13-1296.fm Page 6 Wednesday, July 14, 1999 7:16 PM PREPARATION Note: Complete all other connections CONNECTING THE FM before you connect the system to AC ANTENNA power and turn it on. Press the black FM antenna terminal tabs labeled FM ANTENNA on the back CONNECTING THE of the system, put the stripped end of the supplied FM antenna wires into SPEAKERS the terminals, then release the tabs. show antenna terminals location show speaker connections CONNECTING TO POWER 1. Press the red speake
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13-1296.fm Page 7 Wednesday, July 14, 1999 7:16 PM We recommend you replace the sys- INSTALLING THE tem’s backup batteries every year to SYSTEM’S BACKUP ensure it retains the preset radio sta- BATTERIES tions. To retain the preset radio stations dur- ing an AC power loss, install two alka- INSTALLING THE line AA batteries (such as Cat. No. 23- REMOTE CONTROL’S 557) into the system’s battery com- partment. BATTERIES 1. Push in the battery compartment The remote control requires two AAA cov
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13-1296.fm Page 8 Wednesday, July 14, 1999 7:16 PM Caution: If you are not going to use Listening Safely the remote control for a month or more, remove its batteries. Batteries To protect your hearing, follow these can leak damaging chemicals. guidelines when you use headphones. • Do not listen at extremely high You can use the remote control up to volume levels. Extended high- a distance of about 25 feet. If the re- volume listening can lead to per- mote control operates erratically or manen
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13-1296.fm Page 9 Wednesday, July 14, 1999 7:16 PM BASIC OPERATION Follow these steps to operate your 4. Adjust VOLUME / to a system. comfortable listening level. 1. Press POWER to turn on the sys- tem. STANDBY turns off, the display lights, and the last se- lected system settings appear. show location of VOLUME 5. To emphasize bass sounds, press X-BASS so appears around show location of POWER button X-BASS. To return to normal bass sounds, press X-BASS again. 2. Set TAPE/TUNER/CD to sel
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13-1296.fm Page 10 Wednesday, July 14, 1999 7:16 PM To use the remote control, point it to- USING THE REMOTE ward REMOTE SENSOR on the system CONTROL and press the desired buttons. The remote control’s buttons have the same functions as the corresponding buttons on the main system. show location of remote sensor receiver Notes: • Make sure you have a clear path between the remote control and the sensor. • Weak batteries or direct sunlight on the remote sensor might re- duce the remote cont
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13-1296.fm Page 11 Wednesday, July 14, 1999 7:16 PM TUNER OPERATION 1. Set TAPE/TUNER/CD to TUNER. You can also use automatic tuning (see “Automatic Tuning” on The system automatically tunes to Page 12) or memory tuning (see the station that was playing when “Memory Tuning” on Page 12). the system was turned off or when it was last set to TUNER. Notes: 2. Set AM/FM to the desired band. •Set FM STEREO/FM MONO to The selected band and the last FM STEREO to select stereo. selected station in th
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13-1296.fm Page 12 Wednesday, July 14, 1999 7:16 PM 2. Tune to the station you want to AUTOMATIC TUNING store, then press MEMORY. appears. You can use automatic tuning to skip MEM- to the next available station in your ar- ea. show location of MEMORY AUTO SCAN Press . The tuner auto- matically searches up the band and stops when it finds the next active sta- tion. 3. To store stations into memory lo- cations 1–5, press a memory loca- tion button (1/6, 2/7, 3/8, 4/9, or 5/ show location of A
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13-1296.fm Page 13 Wednesday, July 14, 1999 7:16 PM Note: This increases the memory location number by 5. For exam- ple, if you press MEMORY, then SHIFT, then 5/0, the radio stores the selected frequency into mem- ory location 10. 4. Repeat Steps 1–3 for the other band. To recall preset stations 1–5, simply press the desired memory location button. To recall preset stations 6–10, press SHIFT, then press the desired memory location button. 13
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13-1296.fm Page 14 Wednesday, July 14, 1999 7:16 PM CD PLAYER OPERATION Notes: LOADING A CD • Track number 00 and the current 1. Set TAPE/TUNER/CD to CD. tray number appear while the sys- tem checks each tray. 2. Press OPEN/CLOSE to open the CD compartment. • If the system finds an empty tray, the tray number disappears and the system checks the next tray. • If the system finds a tray with a show location of OPEN/CLOSE CD, the tray number and the num- ber of tracks on that CD appear. Note: T
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13-1296.fm Page 15 Wednesday, July 14, 1999 7:16 PM 4. The system plays all the loaded PLAYING A CD CDs once, then stops. To stop play sooner, press STOP. After loading a CD, follow these steps to play it. PLAY/PAUSE 1. Press . show STOP location show PLAY/PAUSE location The CD in the current tray begins CHANGING CDs DURING to play from Track 1. The system PLAYBACK displays , the current tray num- ber, and the CD’s current track To open the disc tray without stopping number. OPEN/CLOSE pla
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13-1296.fm Page 16 Wednesday, July 14, 1999 7:16 PM If a CD is playing: RANDOM PLAY •Press SKIP once to skip to This feature randomly selects and the beginning of the next track. plays tracks from all loaded CDs. •Press SKIP once to skip back to the beginning of the current Note: To randomly select tracks from track. only one or two CDs, you must load only those CDs in the CD tray. • Repeatedly press SKIP to skip backward or SKIP to skip 1. Press STOP to cancel any other forward to the be
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13-1296.fm Page 17 Wednesday, July 14, 1999 7:16 PM 4. To briefly stop random play, press To cancel repeat play at any time, re- y y PLAY/PAUSE . appears. To peatedly press REPEAT until REPEAT resume play, press it again. disappears. 5. To stop random play, press STOP then RANDOM. RANDOM disap- PROGRAMMED PLAY pears. You can program up to 32 selections (tracks or CDs) from any loaded CDs REPEAT PLAY to play in any order you choose. You can repeat a single track on a se- lected CD, all tracks
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13-1296.fm Page 18 Wednesday, July 14, 1999 7:16 PM 6. Repeat Steps 3–5 to program GRAM until the selection number more selections. The display you want to replace appears. shows how many selections you Then repeat Steps 3–5 to select have stored. and store the new selection. The new selection replaces the previ- Note: You cannot store more than ous selection. 32 selections. Any track or CD stored after the 32nd selection re- • To add a selection while play is places that track or CD. stopped
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13-1296.fm Page 19 Wednesday, July 14, 1999 7:16 PM CD CARE TIPS Even though a compact disc is very durable, treat the CD’s surface with care. We recommend the following precautions: • Do not place anything but a CD in the disc tray. This can damage the drive mechanism. • Do not write on either side of the CD, particularly the non-label side (signals are read from the non-la- bel side). • Do not store CDs in high- temperature, high-humidity loca- tions. The CDs might warp. • Keep CDs dry. A w
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13-1296.fm Page 20 Wednesday, July 14, 1999 7:16 PM CASSETTE DECK OPERATION The system has two cassette decks. 2. Press STOP/EJECT to open You can use both for normal playback the cassette compartment door. and consecutive play, and you can also use Deck 1 for dubbing (record- ing). show STOP/EJECT location Both Deck 1 (1 RECORD/PLAY- BACK) and Deck 2 (PLAYBACK 2) have a full-release auto-stop system 3. Put the cassette tape into the tape to protect tapes and prevent pinch roll- guides in th
