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Using Your New Kenwood Audio-Video Receiver Welcome to the Users’ Guide for your new Kenwood Audio-Video Re- ceiver. It connects all your current audio and video components. It allows you to control them all with Kenwood’s remarkable LCD remote. This manual covers three models.
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Table of Contents Chapter One: Moving Around ............................. 1 What’s on the Front Panel of Your Kenwood Audio - Video Receiver? ................................................................................... 2 What’s on Remote Control Unit? ............................................. 4 LCD Indicators ......................................................................... 6 How Do I Use Remote Control Unit? .................................. 7 Remote controllable range ....
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How Do I Adjust the Surround Modes? ............................ 17 What is the THX? ................................................................... 17 What are Listen Modes?......................................................... 18 Checking the Input signal during playback .......................... 21 Input Modes ........................................................................... 22 Switching Input Modes ......................................................... 23 To set the THX
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Radio Tuning .......................................................................... 44 Recording................................................................................ 47 How Do I Adjust the LCD Display? ................................... 50 Using Remote Control unit under low light ........................ 50 Adjusting the contrast of LCD display ................................. 50 Adjusting the brightness of receiver ...................................... 51 Selecting the displa
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I can’t hear sound from one or more of the speakers, or the sound is abnormally low .................................................. 72 I can’t hear sound from my surround or center speakers ... 72 I can hear sound only from the center speaker when Dolby Pro Logic is selected .......................................................... 72 A DTS-ES encoded source is played but it is not decoded in DTS-ES. ............................................................................... 72 A Dolby D
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Remote Control unit .............................................................. 75 My Remote Control unit is slow to respond—sometimes I have to press buttons or select commands several times ............ 75 My Remote Control unit is not responding......................... 75 I want to clear all the items in Remote Control unit and make it to the factory-set default condition. ................... 76 The RF remote control function does not work ................. 76 Receiver/Tuner ............
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Chapter One: Moving Around Welcome to the Kenwood VR-5700/VR-5090/VR-5080 Users’ Guide. This chapter explains the buttons and functions you can find on the front of the receiver and on Remote Control unit. The chapter also includes an explanation of how to navigate the convenient display on your new Re- mote Control unit. It includes the following sections: What’s on the Front Panel of Your Kenwood Audio - Video Receiver? page 2 What’s on Remote Control Unit? page 4 LCD indicators page 6 How Do
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What’s on the Front Panel of Your Kenwood Audio- Video Receiver? 1. STANDBY indicator 2. POWER ON/STANDBY button 3. PHONES jack 4. SPEAKERS A/B button 5. INPUT MODE button / RF ON/OFF button 6. CD 2/TAPE 2 MONITOR button / RF BAND button 7. LISTEN MODE button /DISPLAY button 8. THX button 9. SOUND button / SET UP button 10. MULTI CONTROL (Up/Down) buttons 11. P. CALL (Up/Down) buttons 12. MEMORY button 13. AUTO button 14. BAND button 15. AV AUX input jacks Standby mode While the standby indicato
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What’s on the Front Panel of Your Kenwood Audio-Video Receiver?, continued 2 1 24 23 22 21 20 19 18 DTS-ES SURROUND CD 2 / TAPE 2 CLIP DISCRETE 6.1 MATRIX 6.1 NEO : 6 BACK 96kfs MONITOR PRO LOGIC INDICATOR THX DOLBY DIGITAL VOLUME CONTROL 17 DTS MPEG STANDBY POWER D.R.I.V.E. HDCD ¤ INPUT SELECTOR ‹ 16 ON/STANDBY DOWN UP AV - AUX S VIDEO VIDEO L - AUDIO - R PHONES INPUT CD 2/TAPE 2 LISTEN MULTI A SPEAKERS B fi% fi% P.CALL MEMORY AUTO BAND Buttons MODE MONITOR MODE THX SOUND CONTROL RF RF BAND D
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What’s on Remote Control Unit? What’s on Remote Control Unit? 1. LCD indicators 2. LCD function button 2 2WAY LCD REMOTE CONTROL UNIT 3. LCD function button 1 1 4. CONFIRM/SHIFT button 2 Home Menu 5. MACRO button 3 6. AV POWER button (AV device Power button) 4 16 CONFIRM/SHIFT MACRO 7. AV device control buttons 5 TV MUSIC MOVIE 17 £ : Play AV POWER SYS.POWER 6 18 4 , ¢ : Skip 7 8 : Pause + + CH. VOL. 19 7 : Stop 8 CH. VOL. - - 9 MUTE DIMMER INPUT MO
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Moving Around What’s on Remote Control Unit? 15. Numeric buttons (AV device control buttons) 10 button / STATUS button 11 button / MULTI ZONE button 12 button / ZONE A/B button 16. LCD cursor up/down buttons 17. Input selector buttons MUSIC: Audio device selector button MOVIE: Video device selector button TV: TV/video monitor selector button 18. SYS. POWER (Receiver power) button 19. VOL. (+/-) buttons 20. MUTE button 21. THX button /SUB W. button 22. MENU button (AV device control buttons) 23.
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What’s on Remote Control Unit? LCD Indicators 6 2WAY LCD REMOTE CONTROL UNIT REC REC 1 5 CD1: 2 CD Disc 001 Tr.01 Text Menu 3 4 LCD function LCD function Cursor up/down button 1 button 2 buttons 1. Playback/recording mode indicators REC ` Play indicator/ 8: Pause indicator/ : Record indicator/ 7: Stop indicator 2. Character display Shows various information such as the input device name and track number. 3. Current function of LCD function button 1 4
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Moving Around What How Do I Use R ’s on Remote Control Unit? emote Control Unit? How Do I Use Remote Control Unit? To select an item: The displayed items can be scrolled or switched using the LCD cursor or button. The selected item is displayed in the reversed color for distinction from other items. Remote controllable range Remote control unit can be controlled in the range as shown below using four AA (R6) batteries. RF Remote Antenna IR Sensor VOLUME CONTROL 20 ft Infrared remote (6 m) tran
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The Remote Control unit transmits an infrared signal in addition to an RF signal. When operation by means of the RF signal is not possible be- cause of the radio wave conditions, aim the Remote Control unit towards the receiver and use it as an infrared remote control. For operation of other identified devices or with an external IR receiver, aim the Remote Control unit towards the respective unit and use it as an infrared remote control. Do not block the remote control IR transmitter on the Rec
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Using Receiver How Do I Adjust the Sound? How Do I Adjust the Sound? You can control and adjust a variety of sound settings using the receiver’s front panel or Remote Control unit. Turning the Speakers On To turn on the front A speakers, open the receiver’s front panel door and press the SPEAKERS A button. Speaker indicators (Å, ı) L SPEAKERS R IN MODE PUT CD 2/TAPE 2 MONITOR LISTEN MODE SET UP SOUND fi% CONTROL MULTI fi% P.CALL MEMORY AUTO BAND Push the lower part of the door. To turn on the fron
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How Do I Adjust the Sound? Adjusting the Volume Use one of the following methods to adjust the volume. • Turn the VOLUME knob on the front panel of the receiver. L SPEAKERS R IMODE NPUT CD 2/TAPE 2 MONITOR LISTEN MODE SET UP SOUND fi% CONTROL MULTI fi% P.CALL MEMORY AUTO BAND VOL. + - • Press or on Remote Control unit. VOL. 2WAY LCD REMOTE CONTROL UNIT + + - - 10 Using Receiver
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Using Receiver How Do I Adjust the Sound? Adjusting the Tone (Only in STEREO mode with THX mode Off) The Tone control adjusts the bass and treble tone of your front speakers manually. In addition to setting Bass and Treble tone adjustment values, you can completely bypass the tone control circuitry for a purer sound. 1. Press the SOUND button on Remote Control unit repeatedly until Tone = Off or On is displayed. On or Off refers to the current setting status. Sound Tone = Off Home Next 2. Press
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How Do I Adjust the Sound? Operation on the receiver: 1. Press the SOUND button in the door repeatedly until TONE OFF or ON is displayed. 2. Press the MULTI CONTROL (%/fi) button to display TONE ON (or OFF if desired so). 3. When ON is selected above and the SOUND button is pressed again, the BASS setting menu appears. When OFF is selected above, the LOUDNESS setting menu appears. 4. Adjust using the MULTI CONTROL (%/fi) button. 5. Press the SOUND button. 6. When the TREBLE setting menu appears,
