Owner`s manual

input programming tip

You can take advantage of a shortcut to the settings of the specific in-

put to which you are currently listening. By pressing and holding the

setup button on either the remote control or the front panel for a few

seconds, you will be taken directly to the first menu item for that par-

ticular input (its name). You may change anything pertaining to that

input, and when you leave that level of the menu (by pressing setup

again), you will leave the menu system entirely.

factory default input names

The factory default names for the inputs are the somewhat generic IN-

PUT 1

through INPUT 8. This makes it easy to tell what connectors

correspond to what input, but you may find the system easier to use

once you have customized the names to reflect the actual components

you have connected.

using custom input names

If none of the default names seems quite right for a given source, you

may create a name of your own choosing, up to seven characters long.

To do so,

• navigate to the NAME= level of the menu system, and

• if necessary, use the volume knob (or use the volume

buttons

on the remote) to choose the name INPUT (or

whatever other custom name might have been entered);

• press enter to enter the single-character editing mode;

• use the volume knob to select each character in turn,

pressing enter each time to move to the next character;

• when you enter the seventh character, you are done.

(Blank spaces count as characters.)

naming an input “SSP”

Introduced in 1993, the Mark Levinson SSP mode provides a clean so-

lution to the problem of integrating a state of the art two-channel sys-

tem with a multichannel system. By routing the front Left and Right

outputs of the surround sound processor through the Nº32, and nam-

ing that input “SSP,” you can enjoy both systems without compromise.

If this scenario is important to you, please see the section entitled “Us-

ing Surround Sound Processors” later in this manual for more detail. In

brief, when the Nº32 accesses an input named SSP, it defeats the nor-

mal function of the volume control, going to a fixed gain (0 dB for bal-

anced, -6 dB for single-ended) for that input. In so doing, it allows the

multichannel volume control to control the relative volumes of all the

speakers in the system, without having to be concerned about a now-

redundant volume control in the Nº32. When you wish to listen to

your two-channel system, simply choose any other input on the Nº32

and place your surround sound processor in standby.