NAD 5420 - AUTRE Instructions

NAD 5420 COMPACT DISC PLAYER and
9425 REMOTE-CONTROL COMPACT DISC PLAYER
INSTRUCTIONS FOR INSTALLATION
AND OPERATION
NOTE: The NAD 5420 and 5425 CD players are
identical, except that the 5425 is equipped with wire-
less infrared remote control.
REAR PANEL CONNECTIONS
1. OUTPUT JACKS
Connect a cable from these output jacks to the CD,
AUXiliary, or any other “line-level” input jacks on your
stereo amplifier. Take care that the lower (right-
channel) jack is connected to a right-channel input on
your amplifier. Do NOT connect this cable to the
amplifiers PHONO input jacks.
2. AC LINE CORD
Connect this power cord to an AC mains wall outlet or
to an AC convenience outlet at the rear of your ampli-
fier.
FRONT PANEL CONTROLS
1. POWER ON/OFF
Press this button to switch on the power to the disc
player. Press again and release to switch the power
off.
2. DISC DRAWER
To play a disc, place it within the large circular
recess in the drawer, with its transparent playing sur-
face facing down. The label must face UP.
CD-3 discs (3-inch CD “singles”) can be played with-
out the aid of an adapter. Place the disc in the disc
drawer, in the smaller circular recess, with the label
facing UP.
NOTE: This player was not designed to accommo-
date a “damping disc” placed on a CD, nor two CDs
stacked together,
3. OPEN/CLOSE
Press this button to open the disc drawer, and press
it again to close the drawer. If this button is pressed
while a disc is being played, the playback will stap, the
laser will re-set to the beginning of the disc, and the
drawer will open. The OPEN/CLOSE button also
erases any track-select program that may be stored in
the player's memory.
When the disc drawer is open, the drawer-closing
mechanism can also be activated by pressing PLAY or
by gently pushing the drawer inward.
CAUTION: The disc drawer is opened and closed
by an internal motor. Do not close the drawer by hand
with the power off.
When the drawer closes, the player scans the disc’s
“table of contents” and briefly displays the number of
tracks and total playing time of the disc. If you press
PLAY to close the drawer, this display is skipped, and
play commences immediately at Track 1.
4. PLAY/PAUSE
This dual-function button alternates between start-
ing and stopping playback. Press to start play or to
resume play after Pause. During play, press this button
to stop playback temporarily, keeping the laser at its
current position on the disc.
To resume playback at the exact point where it
stopped, press PLAY/PAUSE again. If you don’t want
to resume play at the same point, you may use the
SKIP/SCAN control to cue the laser to a different
Starting point before pressing PLAY again.
5. STOP
This button stops play, cancels any repeat-play
cycle, and re-sets the pickup to the beginning of the
disc, indicated as Track “0” in the display.
This button also provides a program-edit function. If
you have stored a programmed track sequence in
memory, pressing the STOP button will delete the final
track from the sequence. (It deletes the track number
that was entered last, which may not be the highest-
numbered track.) Pressing the button repeatedly will
progressively remove tracks from the sequence, eras-
ing backwards from the end toward the beginning, until
the entire sequence has been deleted.
6. PROGRAM (MEMORY ENTER).
The memory circuit allows programmed playback of
up to sixteen tracks in any order. Enter your desired
track sequence in the memory as follows.
4. ине RMS indicator is illuminated in the display,
press OPEN/CLOSE to cancel the stored program, or
press STOP repeatedly to progressively delete the
stored track numbers.
2. Tap the SKIP/SCAN Forward (>) button to select
the first track in your sequence.
3. Press PROGRAM to store that track number in
memory. The RMS (Recorded Memory Sequence)
indicator will glow above the track number. The right-
hand half of the display will briefly show “P 1”, indicating
that the player has accepted the current track as the
first program entry. Then the display will show the total
playing time of the program so far (in this case, just the
duration of the first stored track).
4. Tap the SKIP/SCAN button to select the second
track in your desired sequence.
5 Press PROGRAM to register that track as your
second program entry. The display will flash “P 2°
briefly and then will show the total playing time of the
first two program entries.
6. Continue in this manner, accessing each desired
track number and pressing PROGRAM to store it.
Repeat this procedure until your program is complete.
You may store up to sixteen tracks. lf you exceed this
limit, your last entry will not be accepted, and the time
display will register horizontal dashes.
NOTE: With respect to programming a track se-
quence into the players memory for automatic play,
please note that track numbers higher than eighteen
will be accepted, but the time display will only show
dashes instead of the program playing time, as it will do
also if the total program playing time exceeds 99
minutes.
7. If you enter the wrong track by mistake, or
encounter one of the limits described above, you can
clear the most recent entry by pressing the STOP
button. When you do this, the program entry number
will decrease by one, and the duration of the deleted
entry will be subtracted from the display of the program
playing time. Pressing the button repeatedly will pro-
gressively erase the stored program, deleting from the
last entry backward toward the first.
8. If you plan to record your program on tape, use
the time display to keep track of the total playing time
of the program, and stop when you approach the limit
of your tape (typically 31 minutes for one side of a C60
cassette, or 46 minutes for one side of a C90).
9. To play the programmed sequence of tracks, in
the order that you entered the track numbers, press
PLAY.
10. If you want to play only a portion of a stored
program, initiate play and then tap the SKIP/SCAN
Forward (>) button to jump over the programmed
tracks that you don't want to hear. When you reach the
final track in the sequence, further pressing the SKIP/
SCAN Forward (>) button will have no effect; but you
may SKIP/SCAN Backward (<) through the stored
track numbers to the beginning of the program.
11. During programmed play, you can stop the
music by pressing PLAY/PAUSE. When you press
PLAY/PAUSE again, programmed play will resume
where it stopped. You may also stop programmed play
by pressing STOP (just once). The stored program re-
mains in memory; to play the programmed sequence
again from the beginning, press PLAY/PAUSE.
12. If you want to add another track to the stored
program, press STOP to stop the programmed play;
then use SKIP to select the next track that you want lo
add, and press PROGRAM to enter it.
NOTE: As long as the RMS indicator remains illu-
minated, only the stored program can be played. To
erase the program press STOP repeatedly, or OPEN
the disc drawer, or switch the power off.
7. REPEAT.
This button engages an endless-repeatcycle. Press
the REPEAT button once to select the REPEAT 1
mode, in which only the current track is repeated over
and over again. Press the REPEAT button a second
time to select the REPEAT mode, in which the entire
disc is played from beginning to end, over and over
again. Press the REPEAT button a third time, or the
STOP button, to cancel the repeat cycle and return to
normal operation.
lf you have stored a program in memory, there is no
REPEAT 1 mode. Press REPEAT once to engage
endless repeat-play of the entire programmed track
sequence, and press REPEAT again to cancel the
Repeat cycle.
8. SKIP/SCAN Forward and Back.
The two halves of this rocker button cause the laser
pickup to move forward (>) or backward (<) through the
music.
Each half of the button has two modes of operation.
lf you tap the button briefly, it will engage the SKIP
function, jumping forward or back to the beginning of a
track. But if you press the button and hold it in, the
player will SCAN continuously through the music,
approximately 20 times faster than normal playing
speed. During this rapid scan the music can be heard
in fragmentary form at reduced volume.
In the STOP mode, or after you have loaded a fresh
CD, tapping the SKIP/SCAN button will cause the
pickup to advance to the beginning of each successive
track and await a subsequent command (either PRO-
GRAM or PLAY).
During PLAY, tapping SKIP/SCAN Forward (>) will
jump the laser to the beginning of the next track and
resume play there. Thus, to sample each song ona
disc, press PLAY and then tap SKIP/SCAN Forward
(>) after you've heard a few seconds of each track.
Tapping SKIP/SCAN Back (<) during play is a
Repeat Song command, since it causes the pickup to
jump back to the beginning of the current track and play
itagain. To access the previous track while in Play you
must tap SKIP/SCAN Back (<) twice in rapid succes-
sion, once to reach the beginning of the current track
and again to jump to the previous track.
During programmed memory play, tapping SKIP/
SCAN jumps the pickup to the next or previous track
inthe programmed sequence. When you reach the be-
ginning or end of the sequence, continued tapping has
no effect.
9. DISPLAY
The display provides information about disc play-
back status and about the laser pickup's location on the
disc. The displayed information is obtained by reading
inaudible “sub-codes” in the disc.
TRACK/INDEX NUMBER. Each disc is seg-
mented into numbered tracks when the record is made;
typically each numbered track will correspond to a
different song, symphonic movement, etc. These track
numbers are identified on the CD package and are
encoded in the disc by its manufacturer.
In some CDs, at the manufacturer’s option, tracks
may be sub-divided into sections identified by Index
numbers.By pressing the PROGRAM button once
during Normal Play or Memory Play, the currently
played index number of a track can be displayed.
ELAPSED TIME/TOTAL REMAINING TIME.
This display shows in minutes and seconds the time
elapsed in the music since the beginning of the current
track. When you load a different disc and use the
OPEN/CLOSE button to close the disc drawer, the
display briefly shows the total playing time of all the
tracks on the disc. And when you are entering a
PROGRAM into memory, the display shows the cumu-
lative playing time of the tracks in the program.By
pressing the PROGRAM button twice during Normal or
Programmed play, the total remaining time can be dis-
played, a 'minus' symbol will appear in front of the
minutes and seconds.
STATUS. Aright-pointing arrowhead (>), located to
the right of the time display, glows during PLAY. Two
vertical bars (| |) indicate that the player is in PAUSE.
When the player is in STOP mode, the Track number
is O. In the upper-left corner of the display, the word
DISC glows during normal operation; it vanishes when
you load a disc that can't be read (because it is dirty or
was loaded upside-down). “RMS” glows above the
track number when there is a program stored in memory.
REPEAT 1 glows in the upper-right corner during
Repeat-Play of a single track. REPEAT glows during
Repeat-Play of the entire program or disc.
NOTE: Where the player is unable to read the Table
of Contents of a disc, the word DISC (which normally
glows at the upper-left corner of the display) will disap-
pear.
10. REMOTE RECEIVER (5425 only).
This window contains an infrared sensor that re-
ceives commands from the remote control. There must
be a clear line-of-sight path from the remote contro! to
this window; if that path is obstructed, the remote
control may not work.
REMOTE CONTROL (5425 only)
A wireless remote control is provided with the 5425,
enabling you to operate playback functions from the
comfort of your chair or from virtually anywhere in the
room.
For reliable operation there should be a clear line-of-
sight path from the remote control to the front of the CD
player. If the player does not respond to remote
commands, it may be that this line-of-sight path is
obstructed by clothing, paper, or furnishings.
The PLAY/PAUSE and SKIP/SCAN functions, which
are combined on dual-function buttons on the front
panel, have been separated into individual buttons on
the remote control, for greater convenience. Thus you
can tap one of the remote SCAN buttons briefly, to
move the pickup forward or back in the music by just a
few seconds, without triggering the SKIP function.
After you press PAUSE to interrupt play, you cannot
resume play by pressing the remote PLAY button. You
must press PAUSE again to release the pause function
and resume play.
INSTALLING AND REPLACING BATTERIES
The remote control requires two 1.5-volt AAA-size
(i.e. UM-4 or IEC ВОЗ) cells. Alkaline cells are recom-
mended, to obtain maximum operating life.
To open the battery compartment, press down in the
ribbed area on the back of the remote contro! unit. The
cover of the battery compartment will slide down and
off. Install fresh cells, orienting them as shown on the
diagram within the compartment. The coil springs
should contact the (-) end of each cell. Slide the battery
compartment cover back on until it latches.
In some cases, poor operation may be caused by
corrosion or fingerprint oil on the battery contacts.
Remove both cells, rub the metal contacts at both ends
of each cell with a clean cloth or a pencil eraser, and re-
install the cells, being careful to orient them correctly.
MAINTENANCE.
At periodic intervals, open the disc drawer and wipe
with a damp cloth to remove any loose dust.