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Operating Instructions
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XR-C8220
1999 by Sony Corporation
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Welcome ! Thank you for purchasing this Sony Cassette Player. This unit lets you enjoy a variety of features as well as a supplied rotary commander or a card remote commander. In addition to the cassette playback and radio operations, you can expand your system by 1 connecting an optional CD/MD unit* . If you connect an optional CD unit with the CD TEXT function, the CD TEXT information will appear in the display when you play a CD 2 TEXT disc* . 1 * You can connect a CD changer, an MD changer,
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Table of Contents This Unit Only With Optional Equipment Location of controls ............................................. 4 CD/MD Unit Playing a CD or MD .......................................... 18 Getting Started Playing tracks repeatedly — Repeat Play ............................................... 19 Resetting the unit ................................................. 6 Playing tracks in random order Detaching the front panel ................................... 6 — Shuffle Play ..........
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S M A / Location of controls OPEN SOUND MODE DSPL LIST SOURCE SHIFT 12 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 OFF XR-C8220 Refer to the listed pages for details. 1 SEEK/AMS (seek/Automatic Music !¡ LIST button Sensor/manual search) control Disc Memo 22, 23 9, 11, 19, 20, 21, 24 List-up 13, 24 2 MODE (*) button Station Memo 12 During radio reception: BAND select 10, 11 !™ OFF button 6, 8 !£ Receptor for the supplied card remote During tape reception: commander Playback direction change 8, 9 During CD or MD playb
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Card remote commander The corresponding buttons of the card SOURCE remote commander control the same functions as those on the unit. OFF 1 OFF button SOUND DSPL MODE 2 SOUND button 3 DSPL button FF 4 VOL button 5 PRST/DISC/FF-REW button PRST SEEK VOL DISC AMS 6 ATT button 7 SOURCE button REW 8 MODE (*) button ATT 9 SEEK/AMS button When the POWER SELECT switch is set to the B position, the unit cannot be operated with the wireless remote unless (SOURCE) on the unit is pressed or a cassette is ins
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Attaching the front panel Place the hole a of the front panel onto the spindle b on the unit as illustrated, then push Getting Started the left side in. a Resetting the unit b Before operating the unit for the first time or after replacing the car battery, you must reset the unit. Remove the front panel and press the reset button with a pointed object, such as a ball point pen. Reset button µ Note Pressing the reset button will erase the clock setting and some memorized functions. Detaching the
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Caution alarm If you turn the ignition key switch to the OFF Setting the clock position without removing the front panel, the The clock uses a 12-hour digital indication. caution alarm will beep for a few seconds (only when the POWER SELECT switch on the Example: To set the clock to 10:08 bottom of the unit is set to the A position). If you connect an optional power amplifier and 1 Press (SHIFT), then press (3) (SET UP) do not use built-in amplifier, the beep sound repeatedly until “Clock” appea
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2 Press (SHIFT). Cassette Player SET UP The clock starts. Listening to a tape 3 Press (SHIFT). After the clock setting is complete, the display returns to normal playback mode. 1 Press (OPEN) and insert a cassette. Playback starts automatically. Note 6 If the POWER SELECT switch on the bottom of the unit is set to the B position, turn the power on first, then set the clock. 2 Close the front panel. If a cassette is already inserted, to start playback, press (SOURCE) repeatedly until “FWD” or “R
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Fast-winding the tape Playing a tape in various During playback, push the SEEK/AMS control up or down and hold. modes Fast-forward You can play the tape in various modes: •NR (Dolby NR) lets you select the Dolby* NR Rewind B system. •B Skip (Blank Skip) skips blanks longer than eight seconds. To start playback during fast-forwarding or •ATA (Automatic Tuner Activation) turns on rewinding, press (MODE) (*). the tuner automatically when fast-winding the tape. Locating a specific track •Repeat (Rep
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Playing tracks repeatedly — Repeat Play Radio 1 During playback, press (SHIFT). 2 Press (7) (REP) repeatedly until ”Repeat on“ appears. Memorizing stations automatically SET UP PLAY MODE REP SHIFT — Best Tuning Memory (BTM) 12 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 1 The unit selects the stations with the strongest signals and memorizes them in the order of Repeat Play starts. their frequencies. You can store up to 10 stations on each band (FM1, FM2 and AM). 3 Press (SHIFT). Caution To return to normal playback mode, se
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Note If the automatic tuning stops too frequently, press Memorizing only the (SHIFT), then press (4) (PLAY MODE) repeatedly until “Local” (local seek mode) is displayed. Then desired stations press (5) (n) to select “Local on.” Press (SHIFT). Only the stations with relatively strong signals will You can preset up to 20 FM stations (10 each be tuned in. for FM 1 and 2) and up to 10 AM stations in Tip the order of your choice. If you know the frequency of the station you want to listen to, push th
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Displaying the station name Storing the station names Press (DSPL) during radio reception. — Station Memo You can assign a name to each radio station and store it in memory. The name of the station currently tuned in appears in the display. You can assign a name of up to eight Each time you press (DSPL), the item characters per station. changes as follows: Storing the station names $ Station name* 1 Tune in a station whose name you want to store. $ Frequency 2 Press (LIST) for two seconds. $ Clo
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LIST MODE SOUND Locating a station by Other Functions name — List-up 1 Press (LIST) momentarily. You can also control an optional CD or MD The name assigned to the current station unit, or equalizer preamplifier with the rotary appears in the display. commander. Labelling the rotary ENTER commander 2 Press (LIST) repeatedly until you find the Depending on how you mount the rotary desired station. commander, attach the appropriate label as shown in the illustration below. 3 Press (6) (ENTER) to t
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By rotating the control Using the rotary (the SEEK/AMS control) commander By pressing buttons (the SOURCE and MODE buttons) (SOURCE) Rotate the control and release it to: •Locate the beginnings of the tracks on the tape. Rotate and hold the control (MODE) momentarily, the release it to fast-wind the tape. To start playback while fast- winding the tape, press (MODE). •Locate a specific track on a disc. Rotate Each time you press (SOURCE), the and hold the control until you locate the source chang
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Adjusting the sound Press (SOUND) to adjust the volume characteristics and sound menu. You can adjust the equalizer curve, listening position, cut-off frequency, bass, treble, Press (LIST) to: balance, and fader. • Display the memorized names. You can store the bass and treble levels • Display the programme type. independently for each source. Changing the operative direction 1 Select the item you want to adjust by The operative direction of controls is factory- pressing (SOUND) repeatedly. set
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1 * When the radio is off, or when no tape, CD, MD is playing, this item will not appear. Changing the sound and 2 * When the optional equalizer preamplifier is display settings not connected, this item will not appear. The following items can be set: 3 Press (5) (n) to select the desired •Clock (page 7) setting (Example: on or off). •D.Info (Dual Information)* – to display the For the “Contrast” setting, pressing (5) clock and the play mode simultaneously (on), (n) makes the contrast higher, an
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Adjusting the frequency of Adjusting the sound and the subwoofer(s) frequency of the equalizer To match the characteristics of the connected subwoofer(s), you can cut out the unwanted This unit can also control an optional equalizer high and middle frequency signals entering preamplifier. the subwoofer(s). By setting the cut-off This lets you add some effects to the sound frequency, the subwoofer(s) will output only field of the currently selected source. low frequency signals so you can get a
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After you select the desired item, the display With Optional Equipment will automatically change to the Motion Display mode after a few seconds. In the CD/MD Unit Motion Display mode, all the above items are scrolled in the display one by one in order. This unit can control a maximum of ten Tip external CD/MD units in this configuration: The Motion Display mode can be turned off. (See CD unit — maximum of five “Changing the sound and display settings” on MD unit — maximum of five page 16.) Any
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Note For some discs with very many characters, the Playing tracks repeatedly following cases may happen: — Some of the characters are not displayed. — Repeat Play — Auto Scroll does not work. You can select: Tip •Repeat 1 — to repeat a track. To manually scroll the long name of an MD or CD •Repeat 2 — to repeat a disc. TEXT disc after activating the Auto Scroll function, press (SHIFT), then (2) (N) (manual scroll). 1 During playback, press (SHIFT). Locating a specific track 2 Press (7) (REP) rep
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5 When you finish entering tracks, press (4) (PLAY MODE) for two seconds. Creating a programme — Programme Memory (For a CD/MD unit 6 Press (SHIFT). with the programme memory function) Notes You can play tracks in the order you want by • “**Wait**” appears in the display while the unit making your own programme. You can select is reading the data, or when a disc has not been up to 24 tracks for a programme, and store put into the unit. them in memory. • “*Mem Full*” appears in the display when y
