Compact Component System Instructions
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• When recording starts, “DISC REC” appears on the 
display and the REC (recording) indicator flashes.
• When the tape reaches its end in the forward direction (3
) 
during recording, the last song will be re-recorded at the 
beginning of the reverse side (2
).
• When the tape reaches its end in the reverse side (2
) 
during recording, recording stops even though the entire 
disc is not entirely recorded.
Enjoying Karaoke 
(see pages 34 to 36)
Microphone Mixing:
• Key control cannot be activated while DVD Audio is 
played.
• By pressing REC START/STOP, you can record your 
singing along if you want.
Singing Along (Karaoke):
• Karaoke mode is vocal masking mode. The vocal masking 
reduces the lead vocal of any 2-channel playing source, 
and allows you to replace it by singing into the 
microphones as the music plays. If the playing disc is a 
multiplex Karaoke disc, you can enjoy multiplex sound by 
press AUDIO (see page 21).
• You can activate Karaoke mode only when the disc player 
is selected as the source. 
• Karaoke mode setting is also applied to the optical digital 
output signals through the OPTICAL DIGITAL OUTPUT 
terminal.
• On some music, Karaoke mode does not provide the 
correct effect.
Reserving Karaoke Songs—Karaoke Program Play:
• While programming steps...
Your entry will be ignored if you have tried to program an 
item number that does not exist on the disc (for example, 
selecting track 14 on a disc that only has 12 tracks). Such 
entries are ignored, and are erased from the program.
Timer Operations 
(see pages 37 and 38)
Setting the Timer:
• If you do not specify the preset station or track number 
correctly while setting a timer, the currently selected 
station or the first track will be played when timer is 
activated.
• When you unplug the AC power cord or if a power failure 
occurs, the timer will be canceled. You need to set the 
clock first, then the timer again.
• Without stopping the recording, you cannot change the 
source after Recording Timer starts recording.
• If you set DVD Video as the source, Daily Timer will not 
work correctly.
Timer Priority:
• If you set the Sleep Timer after Daily Timer starts playing 
the selected source, Daily Timer is canceled.
• If you set the Sleep Timer after Recording Timer starts 
recording, Recording Timer is canceled, but recording 
continues until Sleep Timer shuts off the power.
Set up Menu Operations 
(see pages 39 to 44)
LANGUAGE Set up Menu:
• When the language you have selected for MENU 
LANGUAGE, AUDIO LANGUAGE, or SUBTITLE is 
not recorded on a disc, the original language is used as the 
initial language.
PICTURE Set up Menu—MONITOR TYPE:
• Even if “4:3 PS” is selected, the screen size may become 
4:3 letter box with some DVD Videos. This depends on 
how the discs are recorded.
• When you select “16:9” for a picture whose aspect ratio is 
4:3, the picture slightly changes due to the process for 
converting the picture width.
AUDIO Set up Menu—DOWN MIX:
• This setting is not effective when DTS multi-channel 
software is played back.
OTHERS Set up Menu—ON SCREEN GUIDE:
• The set up menu and on-screen bar will be displayed (and 
recorded) even though this function is set to “OFF.”
Subtitles and the information for zooming in always appear 
on the display regardless of this setting.
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