Using Your New Kenwood Audio-Video
Receiver
Welcome to the Users' Guide for your new Kenwood Audio-Video Re-
ceiver. It connects all your current audio and video components. It allows
you to control them all with Kenwood's remarkable LCD remote.
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Table of Contents
Chapter One: Moving Around ............................. 1
What's on the Front Panel of Your Kenwood Audio - Video
Receiver? ................................................................................... 2
What's on Remote Control Unit? ............................................. 4
LCD Indicators ......................................................................... 6
How Do I Use Remote Control Unit? .................................. 7
Remote controllable range .......................................................7
Chapter Two: Controlling the Receiver................ 8
How Do I Adjust the Sound? ............................................... 9
Turning the Speakers On ..........................................................9
Adjusting the Volume ............................................................. 10
Adjusting the Tone (Only in STEREO mode with THX mode
Off) ...................................................................................... 11
Adjusting the Loudness (Only in STEREO mode with THX
mode Off) .......................................................................... 13
Adjusting Speaker Levels ....................................................... 14
Adjusting the Input Level ...................................................... 15
Muting Sound ........................................................................ 16
Midnight Theatre Function (Dolby Digital, DTS and DTS-ES
only) ................................................................................... 16
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HDCD and D.R.I.V.E. Effects ................................................ 33
Headphone Operation .......................................................... 34
Selecting the Inputs ............................................................... 35
How Do I Operate Devices? .............................................. 36
Playback of the device connected to the CD2/TAPE2
MONITOR .......................................................................... 36
Operating a Television ........................................................... 37
Operating an AV Device ........................................................ 38
Operating a CD player ........................................................... 39
To play Kenwood 200-Disc CD Changer ............................. 39
Single or Rotary CD Player ..................................................... 41
CD-R Recorder ........................................................................ 41
Operating an MD Recorder or Cassette Deck ...................... 42
Playing an Analog Turntable ................................................. 43
Monitoring a Video Camera or Playing an Additional VCR ... 43
How Do I Adjust the Surround Modes? ............................ 17
What is the THX? ................................................................... 17
What are Listen Modes? ......................................................... 18
Checking the Input signal during playback .......................... 21
Input Modes ........................................................................... 22
Switching Input Modes ......................................................... 23
To set the THX Mode ............................................................. 24
To set the Listen Mode manually .......................................... 26
Examples of inputs with which switching is available ........ 27
Description of Dolby Pro Logic II: Music mode .................. 29
Selecting the parameter of Pro Logic II: Music mode ......... 29
Applying Digital Signal Processor (DSP) Effects .................. 31
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Radio Tuning .......................................................................... 44
RDS (Radio Data System) for U.K. Only .............................. 44
Storing RDS Station Automatically (for U.K. Only) ........... 46
To search for a specific type of music or radio program (for
U.K. only) ........................................................................... 48
Recording ................................................................................ 47
How Do I Adjust the LCD Display? ................................... 52
Using Remote Control unit under low light ........................ 52
Adjusting the contrast of LCD display ................................. 52
Adjusting the brightness of receiver ..................................... 53
Selecting the display mode of receiver front panel ............. 53
Executing Several Operations at Once (Macro function) .. 54
Registering a macro ................................................................ 54
Executing a macro .................................................................. 55
Using Remote Control Unit in Multiple Zones ................. 56
Haw Do I Switch Control Modes? ........................................ 56
Operation using the SYS.POWER button on Remote Control
unit ..................................................................................... 58
Chapter Three : Button Layout in Controlling
Other Devices .................................................... 59
Chapter Four: Troubleshooting .......................... 71
Sound ...................................................................................... 73
I don't hear any sound at all ................................................. 73