Harman Kardon FL8370 Owners Manual - Page 12

Operation Normal Play The FL 8370 provides a variety of ways to select discs for playback. To play all of the tracks on each disc in order, starting with the first track on the disc currently in the play position, and proceeding through each disc that has been loaded, press the Play button $ g. To start play on a specific disc, press the DiscSelect button ( a that corresponds to the desired disc's position in the disc tray. If no disc is found in the selected position, the unit will search for the next disc. When a disc is in play, the Information Display will show a play indication fl. The track being played will show both as a large number in the middle of the display and as a smaller, flashing number at the right side of the display. The elapsed time of the track being played will appear in the display. As the disc plays, the track numbers will change, and the time will reset to at the start of each new track. To momentarily pause the play of a disc, press the Pause but- ton # i. Note that a Pause indication ± will appear in the display to remind you that the disc is paused. Press either the Play button $ g or the Pause button # i to resume normal play. You may also select a track on any disc in play by entering the desired track number directly using the Numeric buttons b. Note that two buttons must always be pressed when entering a track number. Thus, when entering track numbers 1 through 9, press the "0" button first and then the number for the desired track. In all cases, the two buttons must be entered within three seconds of each other. To stop the disc, press the Stop button % f. When the stop button is pressed the display will again show the total number of tracks and total running time of the last disc played. Random Play The FL 8370 includes three random play modes that enable you to let the machine select the tracks to be played in a random order. The random modes may be started at any time by pressing the Random button @ h when the unit is already in Play mode. Random 1: To play all the tracks on a disc in random order, press the Random button @ h once so that the RANDOM indicator illuminates. The FL 8370 will play the tracks on the disc in an order selected by the unit's microprocessor and stop play when all of the tracks have been played once. Random, All, Sequential: When the Random button @ h is pressed twice, the RANDOM and SEQUENTIAL indicators will illuminate. In this mode, all tracks on the current disc will be played in random order, and then the unit will advance to the next disc in order and play all tracks on that disc randomly. When each disc is finished the next disc will play its tracks in random order until all discs have been played. After the last disc plays, the unit will stop. Random, All Tracks/Discs: When the Random button @ h is pressed three times, the RANDOM, ALL and DISC indicators will illuminate. In this mode, the FL 8370 will select two tracks from the disc in use and play them randomly. After these two tracks play, another disc will be randomly selected and two tracks will play from that disc. This pattern of a randomly selected disc, and the play of two random tracks from each disc, will continue until all tracks on all discs have been played. At that point the unit will stop. HDCD® HDCD, which stands for High Definition Compatible Digital, is a sophisticated process that enables the FL 8370 to deliver outstanding digital-to-analog decoding no matter what type of CD is played. When a disc with the HDCD logo is played, the FL 8370 is able to take advantage of the special recording process that is used in the creation of HDCD discs. Although HDCD discs are playable on any CD player, when they are played on a unit such as the FL 8370, the special circuitry delivers audio with extraordinary fidelity, stunning resolution and the highest possible overall quality. The HDCD process effectively cancels the additive and subtractive distortions that are present in other recordings. No special adjustment is required to play an HDCD disc. Simply play the disc as you would any other CD, and the FL 8370 will automatically sense that it is an HDCD recording. An indicator will illuminate on the front panel to remind you that an HDCD disc is playing. It is important to note that the HDCD process is completely compatible with standard recordings. Its high-quality digital-to-analog circuitry pro- vides enhanced playback from all standard CD audio discs Play Exchange The FL 8370's Play Exchange feature allows you to change discs while the machine is playing. Using this feature, you can have uninterrupted play of an unlimited number of discs, since the drawer may be opened and discs changed while another disc is playing. To use the Play Exchange function, simply press the Open/Close button ! at any time while the unit is in the Play mode. The disc drawer will open and two discs will be available for change. Replace either disc, or both, as desired. To reach the other two discs, press the DiscSkip button * n. You may now remove and change either of these two discs. When you have finished making any disc changes, press the Open/Close button ! . The drawer will close and play will continue with normal functions. Time Display The FL 8370's time display is capable of showing a wide range of information about a CD. In normal operation the display will show the total running time of the CD that is currently being played. Each time the track changes, the time display will reset to and begin to increase again as the disc plays. To view the time remaining on an individual track, press the Time button 6 k once. The display will now show the time left in the track currently playing. To view the total playing time remaining on a disc, press the Time button 6 k twice. In this Time Display mode the TRACK indication will show the tracks remaining, differing from the usual display of the track being played. Headphone Listening You may listen to the output of the FL 8370 through headphones by plugging any headphones with a 1⁄4" headphone plug or adapter into the front-panel Headphones Jack 3. The volume of the headphone output is adjusted with the Headphones Level Control 4. Note that changing the headphone level will not change the volume for the main audio output. This is a fixed output and it is changed using the volume control on your receiver, preamplifier or surround processor. 11 OPERATION