Owner`s manual

13 Standby Button

The standby button toggles the Nº32 between normal operation

and standby, wherein the display is turned off, the outputs are dis-

connected, and all controls are inoperable. All critical circuitry re-

mains powered-up during standby to ensure immediate, optimal

performance when you are ready to listen to music.

The LED above the standby button will blink slowly when the

Nº32 is in standby, indicating that power is still being provided to

the unit. (If the Nº32 is Linked to other Mark Levinson compo-

nents which are also in standby, they will blink in unison.)

sleep timer

The standby button includes a special function that allows you

to use the Nº32 as the heart of the world’s most exotic sleep timer.

By pressing and holding the standby button for several seconds,

you will see the display change to SLEEP -OFF-; subsequent clicks

of standby will cycle through a list of sleep timer settings ranging

from OFF through four hours, in 30 minute increments.

Setting the sleep timer to 1hr 0min for example, will cause the

Nº32 to enter standby after an hour, and will also return the sleep

timer’s status to OFF (so as to avoid unintentional interruptions

of your music at a later time). You may use the sleep timer func-

tion as often as you like, but you will have to set it as you want it

to behave each time. The default setting is OFF.

14 Nº32 Preamplifier Power Indicator

This LED glows to indicate that the Preamplifer chassis is receiv-

ing DC power from the Controller, and blinks in unison with the

standby LED on the Controller chassis when the Reference Pream-

plifier is in standby.