Mark Levinson N40 - Manual (Page 67)

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Overview
The Mark Levinson Nº40 Media Console includes a comprehensive
and sophisticated graphical menu system that serves several critical
functions:
• it provides for initial configuration of the system with regard to
speakers, crossover, multiple zones, and defining inputs based
on your source components
• it allows you to define a variety of “user options” to ensure that
the system behaves the way you prefer with regard to items like
maximum volume settings, how, when and where information
is displayed, etc.
• it provides for fairly extensive customizing of the user experi-
ence, in effect allowing you to make the Nº40 work the way you
think it should (rather than being limited to the way we
thought it should work)
• it also allows you to define certain automatic responses, either
to selecting a particular input or to detecting a particular type of
audio signal; this capability effectively enables the system to
reconfigure itself based on what you are doing, without further
intervention from you
While little of this is difficult to understand, it nonetheless repre-
sents a lot of ground to cover. We will break it up into smaller
sections, according to the main menu icons in the menu system.
Throughout the menu system, certain paradigms hold true. First,
and perhaps most importantly, it is designed to let you see not only
where you are at any point in time, but how you got there. This
hierarchical “menu tree” approach to displaying the menu system
makes it easier to understand the entire system, since you can see
all (or at least most) of the portion you are in, at all times.
Second, it is designed to give you as much information as possible
without going unnecessarily deep into the menu system. Wherever
practical, the current setting for a parameter is displayed with the
parameter’s name, and associated parameters are grouped together
so as to all be visible at once. (The benefits of this organization
become more obvious once you begin to use the menu system.)
The menu system was also designed to lead you through the setup
and customizing process in a logical manner. While nothing
prevents you from hopping back and forth between major menu
groups, you will find that the fastest and simplest way of setting up
Menu System
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