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FRONT PANEL OPERATIONS

This section describes the functionality of each button on the Casablanca’s front panel only. For remote

functionality descriptions, please refer to the section entitled

REMOTE CONTROL OPERATIONS

later in this

manual. Descriptions for front panel buttons/functionality not covered in this section can be found in the

preceding

FRONT PANEL LAYOUT

section.

Main Menu

When the Casablanca is first powered up via the

MAIN POWER

switch on the back panel, it will be in the

default standby mode. Pressing the

POWER

button on the front panel will result in the LCD displaying the

start-up routine and then the

MAIN MENU

, shown in figure 5 below. As this menu appears, the

POWER

LED

turns off. This display will be on all of the time during normal operation and will change only when one of the

function buttons (shown shaded in figure 5) is pressed. The

INPUT NAMES

shown in this figure are for

example only and will most likely differ from the user’s set up.

* * *

Figure 5 - Front Panel Display of the MAIN Menu

Pressing the

LEVEL UP/DOWN

buttons will adjust the master volume for all speakers. This value ranges

from

, relative maximum.

Pressing the

LEVEL LEFT

RIGHT

buttons will adjust the

setting between

OFF

and

. This is a

low pass shelf EQ that, at 2KHz, drops by 1.5dB when the parameter value is set at

, 3dB when set at

6dB when set at

, and 9dB when set at

. Being a shelf EQ, the roll off amplitude never drops significantly

below the specified dB value. The

is active in all modes except Analog Direct and the front left/right

speakers in Analog Matrix modes. It is designed to roll off excess brightness in different program material.

The

MUTE

button will toggle the audio on and off in all speakers each time it is pressed. When the mute

feature is enabled, the

LEVEL

value will be replaced with the word

MUTING

, which will remain displayed until

either the

MUTE

button is pressed again or the

LEVEL

DOWN

buttons are pressed. If the

A-D

button

is set to

DIGITAL

, the Casablanca will remain muted until it locks on to a valid signal on the selected input.

The

MUTE

feature is active in all menus.

The

DISPLAY

button will toggle the LCD brightness between off, low, medium and high. When the display is

off, the red Dolby Pro Logic, Dolby Digital and DTS displays go off, if applicable.

Buttons

through

are used to select a desired input, or audio source. Each has an LED above it, which will

light when the respective input button is pressed. Note that only inputs

through

have S-video input jacks

and only inputs

and

have Dolby Digital (

AC-3 RF

) input jacks.

Pressing the

A-D

button will toggle the currently selected input between

ANALOG

and

DIGITAL

. Select

either analog or digital, whichever corresponds to the signal format being sent to the currently selected input.

See page 10 for additional information on the

A-D

button.

Pressing the

PHASE

button on the remote when the

MAIN

menu is active will change the

PHASE

value. A

value of

means that the audio output phase is at 0° and

(minus) is at 180° out of phase.

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