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Using Your New Kenwood Audio-Video, Receiver

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Using Your New Kenwood Audio-Video Receiver Welcome to the Users' Guide for your new Kenwood Audio-Video Receiver. The VR-5900 connects all your current audio and video components. It allows you to control them all with Kenwood's remarkable PowerTouch III touch screen remote-a graphical user interface without having to use your TV! The VR-5900 adds dual-zone/dual-source operation, letting you play two different A/V sources independently in two different rooms! For a match made in "dual-zone heaven," add Kenwood's dual-transport CD-2280M, or CD-3280M 200-Disc CD Changer to the VR-5900. NetFront® by Access Co., Ltd. is adopted for this product. Copyright© 1996, 1997 Access Co., Ltd. NetFront® is registered trademark of Access Co.,Ltd. in Japan.

Section	Page
VR-5900	1
Table of Contents	3
Chapter One: Moving Around	9
What’s on the Front Panel of Your Kenwood Audio-Video Receiver?	10
What’s on PowerTouch III?	11
What’s on PowerTouch III’s Screen?	12
The Quick Access Menu:	12
How is PowerTouch III Powered ?	13
How Do I Use PowerTouch III?	14
How Do I Move Around?	15
How Do I Enter Text?	16
Chapter Two: Using PowerTouch III	17
How Do I Adjust the Sound?	18
Turning the Speakers On	18
Adjusting the Volume	19
Adjusting the Loudness (Only in STEREO mode with THX mode Off)	19
Adjusting the Tone (Only in STEREO mode with THX mode Off)	20
Adjusting Speaker Levels	21
Midnight Theater Function (Dolby Digital, DTS and DTS-ES only)	24
To balance volume extremes	24
How Do I Adjust the Surround Modes?	25
What is the THX?	25
What are Listen Modes?	26
To check the Surround Play Status	29
Input Modes (only for input with digital jacks)	30
To set the Input Mode manually	31
To set the THX Mode	32
To set the Listen Mode manually	34
Selectable Listen Modes	35
Selecting the Pro Logic Mode with PowerTouch III	36
Description of Dolby Pro Logic II: Music Mode	37
Applying Digital Signal Processor (DSP) Effects	38
HDCDR and D.R.I.V.E. Effects	41
Headphone Operation	42
How Do I Operate Devices?	43
Controlling a device without altering the receiver's input selection (Operations using the SHIFT button)	44
HOME1, HOME2 Devices	45
Playback of the device connected to the CD2/TAPE2 MONITOR	47
CD player	48
Kenwood System Connected 200-Disc CD Changer	48
Displaying Disc and Track Titles	49
Displaying Disc and Track Titles	54
Entering Disc and Track Titles	57
Single CD or Carrousel CD Player	59
CD-R Recorder	60
MD Recorder	61
Tape Deck	63
Turntable	64
Tuner	65
TV	70
VCR/PVR	74
DVD Player	75
Laser Disc Player	76
Operation on the More menu	77
How Do I Record? (Edit Mode)	78
How Do I Adjust PowerTouch III’s Display?	81
How Do I See PowerTouch III’s Screen More Clearly?	82
How Do I Turn the Beeping On or Off?	82
Using PowerTouch III to Dim or Brighten the Receiver’s Front Panel	83
Changing the Front Panel Display Mode	83
How Do I Perform Several Actions at Once?	84
Creating Macros	85
To check a Macro	86
Modifying a Macro	86
Using Macros	88
How Do I Control Home Automation Equipment?	90
To switch on or switch off the RELAY CONTROL output using PowerTouch III	90
To switch the video and audio outputs to Zone A or Zone B while Zone A or Zone B is selected	91
Lutron	93
Makita	94
Accessories Control	96
Chapter Three: Using PowerTouch III in Multiple Zones	98
How Do I Switch Control Modes?	99
Why Don’t I See All My Devices?	100
How Do I Operate Devices?	101
Chapter Four: Troubleshooting	103
Sound	105
I don’t hear any sound at all.	105
Audio is not output only when a 96k fs compatible disc is played.	105
The 96k fs indicator does not light while a 96k fs compatible disc is being played.	105
I can’t hear sound from one or more of the speakers, or the sound is abnormally low.	106
I can’t hear sound from my surround or center speakers.	106
I can hear sound only from the center speaker when Dolby Prologic is selected.	106
A DTS-ES encoded source is played but it is not decoded in DTS-ES.	106
A Dolby Digital Surround EX-encoded source is played with THX Surround EX set to “Auto”, but the source is not reproduced in 6.1-channel audio	107
Sound from one (or more) of my devices is abnormally loud or soft.	107
I can’t hear sound from some of my laser discs.	108
There wasn’t any sound recorded on tapes made on my VCR or tape deck.	108
The initial sound is intermittent or non-existent when I start to play from a Dolby Digital, DTS, DTS-ES or MPEG source	108
With a Dolby Digital program or DTS program, the loud sounds aren’t very loud and the quiet sounds aren’t very quiet.	108
All I hear is loud static when I play DTS discs.	109
I hear a hum when I select the PHONO input.	109
Sound is intermittent.	109
I can’t hear any sound in Zone B.	109
Video	110
I can’t see the program I’m playing on the TV.There wasn’t any video output to my VCR when I recorded.	110
PowerTouch III	110
I don’t see icons for all my devices.	110
I don’t see icons for all the devices I set up.	110
When I select a device icon, I don’t see any commands.	110
My PowerTouch III is slow to respond.sometimes I have to press buttons or select commands several times.	110
My PowerTouch III is not responding.	111
My PowerTouch III is beeping. What does that mean?	111
PowerTouch III does not \	111
I want to clear all the items in PowerTouch III and make it to the factory-set default condition.	112
The RF remote control function does not work.	112
Receiver/Tuner	112
My receiver won’t turn on and the STANDBY indicator is flashing.	112
The sound is distorted, and the CLIP indicator on the receiver’s front panel flashes red continually, or stays red for more than 1 second at a time.	113
I can’t access any RDS (Radio Data System) functions.	114
I can’t receive a radio station.	114
I’m getting a lot of static/interference.	115
When I press a button to tune to a preset station, the receiver does not respond.	115
Macro is not running as I programmed.	115
Index	116