Muse electronic Model Eleven manual

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    Owner’s Manual Muse Electronics Model Eleven (optical disc play back sy stem) Preliminar y D ocument (Draft dated 5-20 04)[...]

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    2 Thank y ou f or selectin g the Muse Mod el Eleven optical d is c pl a ybac k system . The Model El ev en is capab le of pla ying near ly ever y k nown disc form at, including CD, DVD Vid eo, DVD Audio, SACD and MP3. Support includes both two and mu lti-channel s urround modes. Addit ional capabil ities inc lude Video CD (VCD) as well as photo dis[...]

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    3 free operati on. Man y afterm arket mains cord sets are poor ly constructed and c an either damage your Model Eleve n and/or can present a fire ha zard. Check the rear pan el mark ing of the Model Eleven to de term ine the mains voltage requirem ents (eit her 115 o r 230 Volts at eit her 50 or 60 H z). If y o ur Model El even does n ot matc h the[...]

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    4 Setup Menu If your Model Ele ven will be used onl y to play standard CDs no setu p will be req uired. If, however, you intend t o play an y of the higher perform ance form ats such as DVD-V , DVD-A or SACD, y o u will need to configure the M odel El even fo r y our sy stem. I n orde r to setu p the Model Eleven a vi deo devi ce will be r equired [...]

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    5 Digital A udio Out “Digital Aud io Out” is the first item in the lef t hand colum n; mak e certain that th is item is highlight ed, if it is not, then do s o using the “U p” and “Down” navigatio n ke ys. To the right wil l be a list of individu al choic es and their c urrent sett ings. Digital Out The f irst sub-s ubmenu item is “D [...]

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    6 MPEG Out The f ifth sub-s ubmenu ite m is for MPEG. It should be noted that this is for DVDs that have MPEG aud io not MP3s ( which are cov ered in a diff erent section of this manual) . As in t he previous exam ples , there a re t wo choices , eith er “MPEG” or “MPEG > PC M”. Aga in the pro per choice will depen d upon th e capabi lit[...]

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    7 A udio Language This sub-subm enu item has three choic es, “Japanese” , “Englis h” or “Other Language”. T he “Other Lan guage” o ption will bring up a subm enu which all ows you to s elect addit ional languages based up on either a numeric entry or by using the “Up” an d “Down” navigat ion keys. It should be und erstood th[...]

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    8 not be disp layed. Mak e your choice us ing the navigati on ke y s. A ngle Indicator This s ub-subm enu has two op tions, eith er “On” or “Off” . If set to “On” when playing a disc with mu ltiple angles an ons creen cam era icon will appear when an angle change is poss ible. W hen set to “Off” the on screen ic on will not appear. [...]

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    9 SACD Playback This sub-subm enu selects the behavi or of the Model Eleven when playing SACD discs. T he choices i nclude “ 2ch are a”, Multi- ch area” and “CD Ar ea. Some SAC D discs cont ain both 2 channel a nd multi- channe l inform ation. Addi tionally , some SA CD discs co ntain a CD area in a ddition to th eir SACD ar ea. Thes e are [...]

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    10 Speaker Dist ance This sub-subm enu invok es a sim ilar graphica l displa y as in “Speak er Installati on”. Here, for each spe aker s hown as pres ent in the “S peaker Installat ion” sec tion, a distance setting ( in me ters) is entered. T his num ber entered is in relations hip to the m ain listeni ng posit ion. T he settings for the fr[...]

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    11 be visi ble no w. The thre e choices are “Aud io DRC”, “Virtual Surround” a nd “Channel Level”. A u dio D RC This menu option has two choices’ either “O ff” (default) or “On”. Audio DRC is a circuit that reduces th e total d ynam ic range of the aud io from discs encoded with Dolby Digital. Norm ally, this se tting woul d b[...]

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    12 Disc Play – CD To pla y a CD, fir st open the disc tra y by press ing “open” on t he f ront panel. Place t he disc i n the tray wit h the data side do wn (label u p). T hen either pres s “open” on the f ront panel or “Pla y /pla y” on either th e remo te or f ront panel to begin pla y. The table of contents of the CD will be read, [...]

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    13 A-B Repeat The firs t of the submenus , “A-B Repeat” has a sub-subm enu with thre e possible cho ices. “A (Start Poi nt)” is used to mark the begin ning of a loop. “B (End Point)” is us ed to mark the end of a loop. W hen both A and B points ar e selecte d play will en dlessl y loop f rom the starting point to the ending p oint and t[...]

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    14 compr ession (MLP) a nd the total dat a rate that can be ap plied to the aud io portion of the stream . DVDs, regardless of their t ype, have a maxim um data rate of about 9.8 Me ga bits per second. DVD Video discs have an upper data rate lim it for the audio po rtion of abo ut 6.144 Mega bits per second, DVD Audio d iscs do not have this sam e [...]

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    15 current gr oup. A bar graph, a long with a numer ic displa y, shows th e disc dat a rate in a dynam ic manner. A third pr ess of “ Displa y ” will cause th e front panel d isplay to re turn to its initial m ode alon g with extin guishin g the OSD . Disc Play – DVD Video DVD Vi deo di scs wil l utiliz e the gr eatest number of f eatures of [...]

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    16 A bit of prac tice will mak e the day-to-da y operatio n of the M odel Eleven m uch m ore intuit ive. The opti onal Rem ote-1 can ac cess most of the f unctions that are r equired for norm al disc pla y; howe ver, the m ulti-f unction remote w ill be ne cessary for accessi ng any of the setup m enus. Maintenanc e The Model Eleven requ ires no m [...]