2005 Acura RSX buttons

Playing the Radio
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AM/FM BUTTON
SEEK/SKIP BAR PRESET BUTTONS TUNE/MODE KNOB STEREO INDICATOR
SCAN INDICATOR
SCAN BUTTON
AUTO SELECT BUTTON
TUNE/MODE KNOB
PRESET BUTTONS SCAN INDICATOR
STEREO INDICATOR
SCAN BUTTON
AUTO SELECT BUTTON FM BUTTON
SEEK BUTTONS
AM BUTTON
POWER/VOLUME KNOB
POWER/VOLUME KNOB

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The ignition switch must be in the
ACCESSORY (I) or ON (II) position.
Turn the system on by pressing the
PWR/VOL knob, or the AM or FM
button. Adjust the volume by turning
the knob.
The band and f requency that the
radio was last tuned to is displayed.
To change bands, press the AM or
FM button. On the FM band, ST will
be displayed if the station is broad-
castinginstereo.Stereo
reproduction on AM is not available.
You can use these five methods to
find radio stations on a selected
band: the
preset buttons, and .Use the TUNE knob to
tune the radio to a desired f requency.
Turn the knob right to tune to a
higher f requency, or lef t to tune to a
lower f requency.
The SEEK f unction
searches up and down f rom the
current f requency to f ind a station
with a strong signal. To activate it,
press the or side of the
bar or ( )/( ) buttons, then
release it. The SCAN f unction
samples all the stations with strong
signals on the selected band. To
activate it, press the SCAN button,
then release it. You will see SCAN in
the display. The system will scan f or
a station with a strong signal. When
it f inds one, it will stop and play that
station for about 5 seconds. If you do
nothing, the system will then scan
f or the next strong station and play it
f or 5 seconds. When it plays a station
that you want to listen to, press the
SCAN button again.
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Playing the Radio
To Play the Radio
To Select a Station
TUNE,SEEK,SCAN, AUTO SELECT TUNE
SEEK
SCAN
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µµEach preset button can
store one f requency on AM, and two
f requencies on FM.
Select the desired band, AM or
FM. FM1 and FM2 let you store
two f requencies with each preset
button.
UsetheTUNE,SEEK,orSCAN
function to tune the radio to a
desired station.
Pick a preset button, and hold it
until you hear a beep.
Repeat steps 1 through 3 to store a
total of six stations on AM and
twelve stations on FM.
The preset f requencies will be lost if
your vehicle’s battery goes dead, is
disconnected, or the radio f use is
removed. If you are
traveling far from home and can no
longer receive the stations you
preset, you can use the Auto Select
feature to find stations in the local
area.
Press the A. SEL button. ‘‘A.SEL’’
will f lash in the display, and the
system will go into scan mode f or
several seconds. It stores the
f requencies of six AM stations and
twelve FM stations in the preset
buttons.
You will see a ‘‘0’’ displayed af ter
pressing a preset button if Auto
Select cannot f ind a strong station
f or every preset button. If you do not like the stations Auto
Select has stored, you can store
other f requencies on the preset
buttons. Use the TUNE, SEEK, or
SCAN f unction to f ind stations, then
store them in the preset buttons as
described previously.
press the
A. SEL button. This restores the
presets you originally set.
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To turn of f Auto Select,
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Preset
A UT O SEL ECT
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Playing a T ape
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CASSETTE SLOT FF BUTTON
FM BUTTON PLAY/PROG BUTTON
REW BUTTON
SKIP BAR
AM BUTTON TAPE DIRECTION INDICATOR
REPEAT INDICATORDOLBY INDICATOR
PLAY BUTTON PROG BUTTON REW BUTTON CD BUTTON
DOLBY BUTTON TAPE BUTTON
TAPE EJECT BUTTON
FF BUTTON
SKIP BUTTONS
CD/TAPE BUTTON
AM/FM BUTTON
TAPE DIRECTION INDICATOR
REPEAT BUTTONDOLBY INDICATOR
DOLBY BUTTON
POWER/VOLUME
KNOB
REPEAT
BUTTONPOWER/VOLUME
KNOB

Playing a CD
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CD/TAPE BUTTON
AM/FM BUTTON CD SLOTREPEAT INDICATOR
EJECT
BUTTON
RANDOM INDICATOR
SEEK/SKIP BAR
LOAD BUTTON CD SLOT
CD EJECT BUTTON
SKIP BUTTONS
REPEAT BUTTON REPEAT INDICATOR
RANDOM INDICATOR
CD BUTTON
FM BUTTON
AM BUTTON REPEAT BUTTON
RANDOM BUTTON
RANDOM BUTTON
POWER/VOLUME KNOB
POWER/VOLUME
KNOB

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With the ignition in the
ACCESSORY (I) or ON (II) position,
insert a CD into the CD slot. The
drive will pull the CD in the rest of
the way and begin to play it. You
operate the CD player with the same
controls used f or the radio. The
number of the track playing is shown
in the display. The system will
continuously play a CD until you
change modes.
Each time you press and release
/ ( ) , the player skips
f orward to the beginning of the next
track. Press and release / ( )
to skip backward to the beginning of
the previous track. To move rapidly
within a track, press and hold the / ( ) or / ( ) . You will
see CUE or REW in the display. To continuously replay
a track, press and release the RPT
button. You will see RPT in the
display. Press the RPT button again
to turn it off.
Pressing either of the SKIP buttons
also turns of f the repeat f eature.
This f eature plays the
tracks in random order. To activate
Random Play, press and release the
RDM button. You will see RDM in
the display. This continues until you
press the RDM button again. Press the eject button ( ) to
remove the CD. If you eject the CD,
but do not remove it f rom the slot,
the system will automatically reload
the CD af ter 15 seconds and put it in
pause mode. To begin playing, press
the CD button.
If you turn the system of f while a CD
is playing, either with the PWR/VOL
knob or by turning off the ignition,
the CD will stay in the drive. When
youturnthesystembackon,theCD
will begin playing where it lef t of f . Press the AM/FM button to switch
to the radio while a CD is playing.
Press the CD button to play the CD.
Type-S only
CD Player
To Change Tracks (SKIP)
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RANDOM
To Stop Playing a CD
Playing a CD
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To load a single CD:
Press and release the Load button.
When the CD number f or an
empty position starts to blink and
the green CD Loaded indicator
comeson,youwillseeLOAdin
the display. Insert the CD into the
CD slot. Insert it only about
half way, the drive will pull it in the
rest of the way.
The system will load the CD, and
begin playing it. If you press the Load button while a
CD is playing, the system will stop
playing that CD and start the loading
sequence. It will then play the CD
just loaded.
You can also load a CD into an empty
position while a CD is playing by
pressing the appropriate preset
button. Select an empty position (the
CD Loaded indicator is of f ), and
press the preset button f or that
position (1 to 6). The system will
stop playing the current CD and start
the loading sequence. It will then
play the CD just loaded. Select the CD changer by pressing
the CD button. You will see ‘‘Cd’’ in
the display. The system will begin
playing the last selected CD in the
CD changer. You will see the CD and
track numbers displayed.
When that CD ends, the next CD in
the CD changer is loaded and played.
Af ter the last CD f inishes, the
system returns to CD 1.
To select a dif f erent CD, press the
appropriate Preset button (1 6). If
youselectanemptypositioninthe
CD changer, the system will go into
the loading sequence (see page ).
You can use the SKIP buttons while
a CD is playing to select passages
and change tracks.
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To move rapidly within a track, press
and hold the appropriate SKIP
button. You will hear a beep and the
system will continue to move. Press
the button to move forward, or
the button to move backward.
Release the button when the system
reaches the point you want.
Each time you press the button
and release it, the system skips
f orward to the beginning of the next
track. Press and release the
buttontoskipbackwardtothe
beginning of the current track. Press
and release it again to skip to the
beginning of the previous track. To activate the Repeat
f eature, press and release the RPT
button. You will see RPT in the
display as a reminder. The system
continuously replays the current
track. Press the RPT button again to
turn it off. Pressing either of the
SKIP buttons also turns off the
repeat feature.
This feature,
when activated, plays the tracks
within a CD in random order, rather
than in the order they are recorded
on the CD. To activate Random Play,
press the RDM button. You will see
RDM in the display. The system will
then select and play tracks randomly.
This continues until you deactivate
RandomPlaybypressingtheRDM
button again, or you select a
dif f erent CD with a preset button. To take the system out of CD mode,
press the AM or FM button, or insert
a tape in the player. If a tape is
already in the tape player, press the
TAPE button. When you return to
CD mode by pressing the CD button,
play will continue at the same point
that it lef t of f .
If you turn the system of f while a CD
is playing, either with the PWR/VOL
knob or the ignition switch, play will
continue at the same point when you
turn it back on.
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REPEAT
RANDOM PLAY
CD Changer
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