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FM/AM
Cassette Car
Stereo
EN
Operating Instructions
Owner’s Record
The model and serial numbers are located on the bottom of the unit.
Record the serial number in the space provided below.
Refer to these numbers whenever you call upon your Sony dealer regarding this
product.
Model No. XR-C9100 Serial No.
For installation and connections, see the supplied installation/connections
manual.
R
XR-C9100
ª 1998 by Sony Corporation
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Warning Welcome ! This equipment has been tested and found to Thank you for purchasing this Sony Cassette comply with the limits for a Class B digital Player. This unit lets you enjoy a variety of device, pursuant to Part 15 of the FCC Rules. features by using a supplied rotary These limits are designed to provide commander or an optional wireless remote. reasonable protection against harmful interference in a residential installation. This In addition to the Cassette playback and radio equipmen
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Table of Contents This Unit Only With Optional Equipment Location of controls ................................................. 4 CD/MD Unit Playing a CD or MD ......................................... 17 Getting Started Scanning the tracks — Intro Scan ................................................. 18 Resetting the unit ................................................ 6 Playing tracks repeatedly Detaching the front panel .................................. 6 — Repeat Play ....................
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S M A / Location of controls OPEN SOUND MODE DSPL LIST SOURCE SHIFT 12 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 OFF XR-C9100(U) Refer to the pages for details. EN 1 SEEK/AMS (seek/Automatic Music !¼ OPEN button 6, 8, 33 Sensor/manual search) control !Á LIST button 9, 11, 18, 19, 20, 23, 29 Station Memo 12 2 MODE (*) button List-up 13, 23, 30 Disc Memo 21, 22 During tape playback: Playback direction change 8, 9 DSP Custom File 25 During tuner reception: !ª OFF button 6, 8 BAND select 10, 11 !£ Sensor for the opt
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Optional wireless remote (RM-X47) MODE SOURCE OFF DIR SEEK AMS – PRESET + REW DISC FF – SOUND SEL ATT DSPL EN The buttons of the wireless remote control the same functions as those on this unit. 1 OFF button 7 PRESET/DISC button You cannot do manual search and manual 2 SEEK/AMS button tuning with the remote. 3 (Ð) (+) buttons 8 SOURCE button 4 ATT button 9 MODE/DIR button (MODE) controls the same function on this 5 SOUND/SEL button unit. 6 DSPL button When the POWER SELECT switch is set to the B
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Attaching the front panel Place the hole a in the front panel onto the spindle b on the unit as illustrated, then push Getting Started the left side in. Resetting the unit a Before operating the unit for the first time or b after replacing the car battery, you must reset the unit. Press the reset button with a pointed object, such as a ball-point pen. Reset button Note Pressing the reset button will erase the clock and µ some memorized functions. EN Detaching the front panel You can detach the f
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Getting Started LIST MODE SOUND Caution alarm If you turn the ignition key switch to the OFF Setting the clock position without removing the front panel, the The clock uses a 12-hour digital indication. caution alarm will beep for a few seconds (only when the POWER SELECT switch on the Example: To set the clock to 10:08 bottom of the unit is set to the A position). 1 Press (SHIFT), then press (3) (SET UP). Preparing the rotary SET UP commander 1 Press (5) (n). When you mount the rotary commander
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3 Press (SHIFT). After the mode setting is complete, the display returns to normal playback mode. Cassette Player Note If the POWER SELECT switch on the bottom of the unit is set to the B position, turn the power on first, then set the clock. Listening to a tape 1 Press (OPEN) and insert a cassette. 6 2 Close the front panel. Playback starts automatically. If a cassette is already inserted, press (SOURCE) repeatedly until “FWD” or “REV” EN appears to start playback. The side facing up is being p
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Getting Started/Cassette Player Fast-winding the tape Playing a tape in various During playback, push the SEEK/AMS control up or down and hold. modes Fast-forward You can play the tape in various modes: •Intro (Intro Scan) lets you play the first 10 Rewind seconds of all the tracks. •NR (Dolby NR) lets you select the Dolby* NR B or C system. To start playback during fast-forwarding or •B. Skip (Blank Skip) skips blanks longer than rewinding, press (MODE). eight seconds. •ATA (Automatic Tuner Ac
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Playing tracks repeatedly — Repeat Play Radio 1 During playback, press (SHIFT). 2 Press (7) (REP) repeatedly until ”Repeat“ appears. DSPL Memorizing stations A automatically SET UP PLAY MODE REP SHIFT — Best Tuning Memory (BTM) 12 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 1 The unit selects the stations with the strongest signals and memorizes them in the order of Repeat Play starts. their frequencies. You can store up to 10 stations on each band (FM1, FM2, and AM). 3 Press (SHIFT). Caution To go back to normal playback mo
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Cassette Player/Radio Note If the automatic tuning stops too frequently, press Memorizing only the (SHIFT), then press (4) (PLAY MODE) repeatedly until “Local” (local seek mode) is displayed. Then desired stations press (5) (n) to select “Local on.” Press (SHIFT). Only the stations with relatively strong signals will You can preset up to 20 FM stations (10 for be tuned in. FM1 and 10 for FM2) and up to 10 AM stations Tip in the order of your choice. If you know the frequency of the station you w
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Displaying the station name Storing the station names Press (DSPL) during radio reception. — Station Memo You can assign a name to each radio station and store it in memory. The name of the station currently tuned in appears in the display. You can assign a name of up to eight Each time you press (DSPL), the item characters per station. changes as follows: Storing the station names $ 1 Station name* 1 Tune in a station whose name you want to store. $ Frequency 2 Press (LIST) for two seconds. $ C
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Radio/Other Functions Locating a station by Other Functions name — List-up 1 Press (LIST) momentarily. The name assigned to the station currently playing appears in the display. Using the rotary commander ENTER The rotary commander works by pressing buttons and/or rotating controls. You can control an optional CD or MD unit 2 Press (LIST) repeatedly until you find the with the rotary commander. desired station. By pressing buttons (the SOURCE 3 Press (6) (ENTER) to tune in the desired and MODE b
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By rotating the control (the SEEK/ Press (SOUND) to AMS control) adjust the volume and sound menu. Press (LIST) to: • Display the memorized names. • Display the program type. Changing the operative direction The operative direction of controls is factory- Rotate the control momentarily and set as in the illustration below. release it to: To increase •Locate the beginnings of the tracks on the tape. Rotate and hold the control, and release it to fast-wind the tape. To playback, rotate and hold th
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Other Functions Adjusting the sound Changing the sound and characteristics display settings You can adjust the bass, treble, balance and The follow items can be set: fader. •Clock (page 7). You can store the bass and treble levels •D.Info (Dual Information) – to display the independently for each source. clock and the play mode at the same time (ON) or to display the information alternately (OFF). 1 Select the item you want to adjust by •Amber/Green – to change the illumination pressing (SOUND)
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1 Press (SHIFT). Adjusting the frequency 2 Press (3) (SET UP) repeatedly until the of the subwoofer(s) desired item appears. To match the characteristics of the connected subwoofer(s), you can cut out the unwanted Each time you press (3) (SET UP), the item high and middle frequency signals entering changes as follows: the subwoofer(s). By setting the cut-off Clock n D.Info* n Amber/Green n Dimmer frequency, the subwoofer(s) will output only n Contrast n Voice* n Beep n RM n BBE* low frequency s
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Other Functions/CD/MD Unit You can label CD and CD TEXT discs with a With Optional Equipment personalized name using the disc memo function, refer to “Labeling a CD” (page 21). CD/MD Unit However, if you use personalized labels, they will always take priority over the original CD TEXT information when such information is You can control up to 7 CD and MD units displayed. with this unit. If you connect an optional CD unit with the Tip CD TEXT function, the CD TEXT information If the name of the
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Locating a specific track — Automatic Music Sensor (AMS) Playing tracks repeatedly — Repeat Play During playback, push the SEEK/AMS control up or down once for each track You can select: you want to skip. •Repeat 1 – to repeat a track. To locate succeeding •Repeat 2 – to repeat a disc. tracks To locate preceding 1 During playback, press (SHIFT). tracks 2 Press (7) (REP) repeatedly until the Locating a specific point in a track desired setting appears. — Manual Search z Repeat 1 z Repeat 2
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CD/MD Unit 5 When you finish entering the tracks, press (4) (PLAY MODE) for two seconds. Creating a program — Program Memory (CD/MD unit with the 6 Press (SHIFT). program memory function) Notes You can play tracks in any order of your choice • “**Wait**” appears in the display while the unit by creating and storing programs in the unit‘s is reading the data, or if a disc has not been put memory. You can make two programs: into the unit. Program 1 and Program 2. You can select up to • “*Mem Full*
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Adding tracks to a program 4 Press (SHIFT). 1 Press (SHIFT), then press (4) (PLAY To return to normal playback mode, select MODE) for two seconds. “PGM off” in step 3 above. DISC TRACK Notes • If you press a number button during program PLAY MODE ENTER memory play, program memory play is “P 1” shows Program 1 is selected. interrupted, and playback of the selected disc starts. • “NO Data” appears in the display if no track is If you have labelled the disc, the bank edit stored in the program. mod
