Harman HK 990 - Manual (Page 14)

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HK 990
Operating Instructions
Listening to Your CD Player, Tape Deck, Tuner or
Other Source
press the power switch 1. 2 to turn on the amplifier. the power indicator lights white
and the protection circuitry checks for short circuits or other problems for a few
seconds before sound output.
press “speaker 1” to hear loudspeakers connected to the rear speaker 1 terminals.
2.
press “speaker 2” to hear loudspeakers connected to the rear speaker 2 terminals.
press both to hear both speaker pairs at once. to listen to headphones only, press to
turn off any active speaker pair.
select desired source for listening by pressing the front-panel source selector (
3. 5)
up or down button repeatedly until the name of the source is shown in the main
Information display, or by pressing the desired system on button on the remote control.
please take the time to associate physical input jacks to source names; then press the
power button to place the amplifier in standby to have it save your preferences.
begin playing the desired source.
4.
adjust the volume control to the desired level. 5.
With the Input setup, you may adjust bass and treble as well as balance if you have not
already done this during the setup process.
With the eQ preset you can select one, two or three stages of equalization, if you did
already perform the ezset / eQ setup automated adjusting process as described above.
Making a Recording
you may record any source to tape or to cdr or to both simultaneously. you may also
connect a second tape deck to the cdr inputs and outputs to record from tape to tape (in
either direction).
to select the desired source for recording (it can be a source different from the one being
listened to), press the record out button, followed by the source selector up or down
button on the front panel, repeatedly until the indicator for the name of the source to be
recorded is shown in the main Information display. all input signals, digital or analog, are
available for recording in both digital and analog form. this means that if you wish to copy
a vinyl record to a digital recorder, you simply start vinyl play, select “phono” as record
source and begin recording on your digital recorder. the built-in analog/digital converters
transform the analog phono signal to digital form. the reverse is also possible: if you have
connected a cd player to the hK 990 with a digital cable, its signal is available from the
analog recording outputs as well as the digital outputs.
NOTE: the record-output signal is taken directly from the program source and is
unaffected by the volume, bass, treble or balance controls.
Important Notes:
“record source” can be selected on the front panel only, not from the remote •
control.
three-head cassette decks with monitoring function can be connected to tape or cdr
•
connectors, too, but their monitoring function cannot be used.
always turn the hK 990 to standby with the power button before unplugging the
•
power cord (or before switching off an external multiplug). this saves your current
setup in the memory, in addition to safely switching off the power-amplifier section
of the hK 990.