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Operating Instructions page 2
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Bedienungsanleitung Seite 2
PMC-303L
1996 by Sony Corporation
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Notice for customers in the United Warning Kingdom To prevent fire or shock hazard, do A moulded plug complying with BS 1363 is not expose the player to rain or fitted to this equipment for your safety and moisture. convenience. Should the fuse in the plug supplied need to To avoid electrical shock, do not open be replaced, same rating fuse approved by the cabinet. Refer servicing to ASTA or BSI to BS 1362, (i.e. marked with qualified personnel only. or mark) must be used. Information If the p
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Basic Operations Table of contents Basic Operations 4 Playing a CD 6 Listening to the radio 8 Playing a tape 10 Recording on a tape The CD Player Setting Up 12 Using the display 29 Hooking up the system EN 13 Locating a specific track 32 Selecting the audio emphasis (Sound Mode/MEGA BASS) 14 Playing tracks repeatedly (Repeat Play) 15 Playing tracks in random order Additional Information (Shuffle Play) 33 Precautions 16 Creating your own program 35 Troubleshooting (Program Play) 37 Maintenance 38
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Basic Operations Playing a CD 3 1,2 For hookup instructions, see pages 29 - 31. 1 Press 6 OPEN/CLOSE down to open the disc compartment and place the CD on the CD OPEN/CLOSE compartment. With the label side up 2 Close the lid of the CD compartment. OPEN/CLOSE Display 3 Press ^ (direct power-on). CD The player plays all the tracks once. 123456789 10 EN 4 Basic Operations
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Basic Operations Use these buttons for additional operations POWER ^ p 6 OPEN/CLOSE =/+ VOLUME +/– Tip To Press Next time you want to Adjust the volume VOLUME +/– listen to a CD, just press ^. The player turns on Stop playback p automatically and starts playing the CD. Pause playback ^ Press again to resume play after pause. Go to the next track + Go back to the previous track = Remove the CD 6 OPEN/CLOSE Turn on/off the player POWER EN Basic Operations 5
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Listening to the radio 1 2 For hookup instructions, see pages 29 -31. Display 1 Press BAND until the band you PRESET want appears in the display BAND RADIO (direct power-on). 2 Hold down TUNING +/– until RADIO RADIO TUNING the frequency digits begin to change in the display. The player automatically scans the radio frequencies and stops when it finds a clear station. Indicates an FM If you can't tune in a station, stereo broadcast. press the button once at a time. EN 6 Basic Operations
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Basic Operations Use these buttons for additional operations POWER VOLUME +/– Tips To Press • If the FM broadcast is Adjust the volume VOLUME +/– noisy, press STEREO/ MONO/ISS on the Turn on/off the radio POWER remote until “MONO” appears in the display and the radio will play To improve broadcast reception in monaural. (on the FM remote only) • Next time you want to Connect the FM outdoor aerial (not supplied) (see listen to the radio, just page 31.) press the BAND button. The player turns on
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Playing a tape 2 1 For hookup instructions, see pages 29 -31. 1 Press 6 to open the tape compartment and insert a recorded tape. Use TYPE I (normal), TYPE II (high position) and TYPE IV (metal) tapes. Close the compartment. With the side you want to play facing forward 2 Press (. Display TAPE The player turns on (direct TAPE power-on) and starts playing. Tape counter EN 8 Basic Operations
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Basic Operations Use these buttons for additional operations POWER 9 p VOLUME +/– 0/) 6 Tips To Press • Press COUNTER RESET Adjust the volume VOLUME +/– on the remote to reset the counter to “000.” (on Stop playback p the remote only) Play the reverse side 9 • When you listen to a tape recorded with the Fast-forward or rewind the tape ) or 0 Dolby B NR system, press DOLBY NR on the Eject the cassette 6 remote until “ DOLBY B Turn on/off the player POWER NR” appears in the display. (on the remote
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Recording on a tape 3 31 For hookup instructions, see pages 29 - 31. 1 Press 6 to open the tape compartment and insert a blank tape. Use TYPE I (normal) and TYPE II (high position) tapes only. With the side you want to record on facing forward 2 Select the program source you Display want to record. CD To record from the CD player, insert a CD (see page 4) and press p on the CD section. 123456789 10 To record from the radio, press PRESET RADIO BAND and tune in the station BAND you want (see page
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Basic Operations Recording from the CD 3 Start recording. player To record from the CD player, DUBBING CD press DUBBING. (On the remote, while keep pressing r/P, press 123456789 10 ( on the TAPE section and then DUB REC ( on the CD section.) r/P To record from the radio, press Recording from the radio r/P and then (. (On the RADIO remote, while keep pressing r/P, press ( on the TAPE TAPE section.) REC Note . If recording does not start, press r/P RADIO and then ( again. REC Tips Use these butt
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The CD Player Using the display You can check information about the CD DISPLAY using the display. Tip Checking the total track numbers and playing This player is designed time to display the current Press DISPLAY in stop mode. time first. Even if you turn off the power, the If the disc has more than 11 tracks, “OVER 10” current time remains in appears in the display. the display as long as the player is connected to the wall outlet. CD When you change the Total track numbers function (e.g., from
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The CD Player Locating a specific track You can quickly locate any track using Number buttons the number buttons. You can also find a specific point in a track while playing a CD. = / + Note To locate Press You cannot locate a a specific track directly number button of the specific track if track. “SHUF” or “PGM” is lit in the display. Turn off a point while listening to + (forward) or = the indication by the sound (backward) while playing pressing p on the CD and hold down until you section. f
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Playing tracks repeatedly (Repeat Play) Number buttons You can play tracks repeatedly in normal, shuffle or program play modes (see pages 15 - 17.). ( p REPEAT PGM/SHUF Note 1 Press p. When you repeat a “CD” appears in the display. single track or all the tracks, make sure 2 Proceed as follows. neither “SHUF” nor “PGM” is lit in the To repeat Press display. If either is lit, a single track 1 Press REPEAT until turn it off by pressing p on the CD section. “REP 1” appears. 2 Press the number butto
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The CD Player Playing tracks in random order (Shuffle Play) You can play tracks in random order. ( p PGM/SHUF 1 Press p. “CD” appears in the display. 2 Press PGM/SHUF until “SHUF” appears in the display. 3 Press ( to start shuffle play. To cancel shuffle play Press PGM/SHUF until “SHUF” disappears in the display. EN The CD Player 15
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Creating your own program (Program Play) Number buttons You can make a program of up to 20 tracks in the order you want them to be played. ( p PGM/SHUF 1 Press p. “CD” appears in the display. 2 Press PGM/SHUF until “PGM” appears in the display. Tip 3 Press the number CD If you made a mistake, buttons for the tracks TRACK STEP press CANCEL and re- you want to program enter the track number. in the order you want. Programmed tracks 3 appear in the music calendar. Track Playing number order 4 Press
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The CD Player Tips To change the current program • You can play the same To Do this program again, since the program is saved Erase the last track in 1 Press CANCEL. Every time until you open the CD the program you press the button, the last compartment. track in the program is • You can record cleared. program play, using 2 Re-enter the track numbers. DUBBING on the Change the whole Press p on the CD section. Then player. program completely create a new program following the programming procedu
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The Radio Presetting radio stations You can store radio stations into the player's memory. You can preset up to 30 radio stations, 10 for each band in any order. BAND AUTO PRESET 1 Press BAND until the band you want appears in the display. 2 Press AUTO PRESET until “AUTO PRESET” appears. The stations are stored in memory from the lower frequencies unless a station has a weak signal. If a station cannot be preset automatically You need to preset a station with a weak signal manually. Also, when
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The Radio Playing preset radio stations Once you've preset the stations, use the Number buttons number buttons to tune in your favorite stations. BAND Tip 1 Press BAND to select the band. You can tune in a preset station with the 2 Press the number buttons to tune in a stored player. Use PRESET station. +/– instead of the number buttons. EN The Radio 19
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The Tape Player Finding the beginning of a track The player senses where a track begins by detecting the pauses between the tracks. 0/) Notes While playing a tape, press ) or 0. • If a soft sound like pianissimo continues for some seconds in a Playing side The beginning The beginning track, the player may of the next track of the current start to play as the next track track. • If you press the 0 or Front side (())0 ) when there is no Reverse side (9)0) sound in the track, the AMS function does
