Issue 2: 14
th
April 2005
kW SACD
Instructions for use
Page 11 of 17
BASIC
OPERATION – 1
LOADING AND PLAYING DISCS
Please note, your kW SACD will play comm-
ercial CDs and SACDs manufactured to the
ideo or MP3 audio formats, or audio
mains power to the kW SACD player is
owever, if no disc is loaded, the unit will
y
please wait
, then
READING
and
nally
NO DISC.
To l a disc, press the
OPEN/CLOSE
button
to ope
the drawer
is full extended, insert the disc with the label
facing
OPEN
utton to
close
P
has
been
layer
reads
r
SACD
and then
If eith
pressed, the disc drawer closes and the player
reads the
a short
delay ep
the
disc,
play
show
ay is
typica
CD
about 15 seconds.
If the inserted disc is faulty, or has the wrong
forma
the displa
y
shows
NOWN
and the disc drawer
opens
DISC PLAY
original Philips
/
Sony “Red Book” or ISO
technical standard. It does not accept DVD-
v
recordings made on some computer discs.
If
switched on with a disc already loaded, it will
automatically read the disc and play it.
H
displa
fi
p ay
n the transport drawer.When
y
upwards and then press either the
/CLOSE
,
PLAY
or
STOP
b
the transport drawer again. If
STO
ressed, the drawer closes and the p
p
the disc, displays either
CDDA
o
STOP
.
er
OPEN/CLOSE
or
PLAY
have been
contents of the disc. After
d endent on the number of tracks on
the disc starts to play and the dis
CDDA
or
SACD
. For CDs, the del
s
lly 20 to 25 seconds, whereas for SA
t, after several seconds delay
UNK
.
Press
PLAY
to begin playback. Current track
and elapsed track time will be displayed similar
to the following example :
k 1,
rack number
01
in the centre and elapsed time on the right.
splay shows
STOP
and total number of
tracks on the disc, 13 in this example :
The unit will begin playing from trac
confirmed by the word
PLAY
appearing on
the left of the display, with t
When all tracks on the disc have been played,
the di
PAUSE
Pressing the
PAUSE
button either on the
front panel or remote control whilst a disc is
playing pauses playback of the disc.
PAUSE
appears in the display window in addition to
track number and time indication :
The disc will continue spinning, but the track
does not advance and the kW SACD's output
is muted.
Pressing
PLAY
again resumes playback from
the same place.
(Remote control)
On the remote control,
PLAY
and
PAUSE
buttons have the same function as those on
the front panel, but by pressing opposite ends
of the same button. So
PLAY
will only start
disc play, and
PAUSE
will not resume play.
STOP
Playback can be stopped by pressing the
STOP
button once. On the remote control,
press either end of the button, not the middle
part. The display initially shows
STOP
, then
STOPPED
when the disc mechanism finally
comes to rest. If any other function button is
pressed in the meantime, the player will not
respond, and the word
STOPPING
is
displayed as a caution.
