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Controls and Indicators
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CD Player
OPEN/CLOSE — Opens or closes
the disc tray.
DISC 1 - DISC 5 — Selects disc 1, 2,
3, 4, or 5
DISC SKIP — Skips to the next CD
in the tray
STANDBY/POWER (RCA models)
— Turns power on or off (STAND-
BY mode). STANDBY/ POWER/
ECO (Thomson models) — keep
pressing briefly STANDBY mode
to enter ECO (power saving, with-
out clock display) mode.
PHONES — Jack for connecting
headphones
SOURCE— Selects the CD player/
tuner/ tape player/ external source
SET — Sets tuner or CD presets
mode
DEMO/DIMMER — Turns the fea-
ture demonstration on or off
STOP — Stops CD track
(stops tape on digital
tape drives)
SKIP FORWARD —
Increments radio fre-
quency or CD tracks
SKIP BACKWARD —
Decrements radio fre-
quency or CD tracks
PLAY/PAUSE — Plays or
pauses CD
CLOCK — Shows clock time and
enters clock setting mode.
TIMER — Enters timer setting
mode and turns the mode on/off.
BAND
— Changes among tuner
bands. FM/AM for RCA and
FM/MW/LW for Thomson.
Enters autopreset program in
FM mode.
FM ST/ SCAN — Toggles between
FM stereo and mono. Enters tuner
scan mode.
SHUFFLE
—
Turns SHUFFLE mode
on or off to play CDs randomly.
(PTY/MIX for Thomson series)
INTRO
—
Turns INTRO mode on or
off to play the first 10 seconds of
each track. (RDSTIME/INTRO on
Thomson models)
REPEAT
(for RCA models) —
Turns REPEAT mode on or off to
repeat a track, a disc, or all discs.
REPEAT/ RDS (for Thomson mod-
els)
— also shows RDS informa-
tion in Tuner mode (FM).
ATS
—
Sets up an automatic track
skip program
BASS BOOST — Turns bass boost
on or off
EQ/ CUSTOM EQ — Toggles
among FLAT, ROCK, JAZZ, POP,
CLASSICAL & CUSTOM modes.
X-SOUND/ HELP MODE —
Press once to activate X-SUR-
ROUND
(only for RS2521, RS2522,
RS3520, RS3522, A3200, A3205,
A3400)
. Keep pressing briefly to
turn
HELP mode on or off to dis-
play useful information about sys-
tem keys and features.
VOLUME
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ncreases/ decreases
volume.
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JOG WHEEL —
Turn (+) to
increase or (-)
to decrease
numeric values
on display/
select tuner
preset stations/
select CD tracks
Multi-function JOG
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