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You can use any of f ive methods to
f ind radio stations on the selected
band: tune, seek, scan, the preset
buttons, and auto select.
Use the TUNE knob to
tune the radio to a desired f requency.
Turn the knob to the right to tune a
higher f requency, and turn it to the
lef t to tune a lower f requency. The scan f unction samples
all 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
f or about 10 seconds.
If you do nothing, the system will
then scan f or the next strong station
and play it f or 10 seconds. When it
plays a station you want to listen to,
press the SCAN button again.
The seek f unction
searches up and down from the
current f requency to f ind a station
with a strong signal. To activate it,
press the or side of the
SEEK bar, then release it.
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. The ignition switch must be in the
ACCESSORY (I) or ON (II) position.
Turn the system on by pushing the
power/volume knob or the AM or
FM button. Adjust the volume by
turning the power/volume knob.
To Select a Station
TUNESCAN
To Play the AM/FM Radio
SEEK
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you are
traveling far from home and can no
longer receive your preset stations,
you can use the auto select feature to
find stations in the local area.
Press the A. SEL button. You will see
A. SEL flashing in the display, and
the system goes into scan mode for
several seconds. It stores the
frequencies of six AM, and twelve
FM stations in the preset buttons.
You will see a ‘‘0’’ displayed after
pressing a preset button if auto
select cannot find a strong station for
every preset button. If
you do not like the stations auto
select has stored, you can store
other frequencies on the preset
buttons as previously described.
For inf ormation on AM/FM radio
f requencies and reception, see page .
Each 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.
Repeat steps 1 through 3 to store a
total of six stations on AM and
twelve stations on FM. Pick a preset button (1 6), and
hold it until you hear a beep. press the
A. SEL button. This restores the
presets you originally set.
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To turn of f auto select,
AUTO SELECT
Preset
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Press the TUNE (SOUND) knob
repeatedly to display the BASS,
TR EBLE, FADER, BALANCE,
SUBWOOFER (if equipped), and
SVC (speed-sensitive volume
compensation) settings.
Adjusts the bass.
Adjusts the treble.
Adjusts the side-to-
side strength of the sound.
Adjusts the
strength of sound from the
subwoofer speaker.Adjusts
the front-to-back
strength of the sound. The
system will return to the audio
display about 5 seconds after you
stop adjusting a mode.
The SVC mode controls the volume
based on vehicle speed. The faster
you go, the louder the audio volume
becomes. As you slow down, the
audio volume decreases.
The SVC has four modes; SVC OFF,
SVC LOW, SVC MID, and SVC
HIGH. Turn the TUNE knob to
adjust the setting to your liking. If
you feel the sound is too loud, choose
low. If you feel the sound is
too quiet, choose high.
Each modeisshowninthedisplayas
it changes. Turn the TUNE knob to
adjust the setting to your liking.
When the level reaches the center,
you will see ‘‘C’’ in the display.
Adjusts
the volume level
basedonthevehiclespeed.
This function is set to MID as the
default setting when the vehicle
leaves the factory.
You can use the instrument panel
brightness control knob to adjust the
illumination of the audio system (see
page ). The audio system
illuminates when the parking lights
are on, even if the radio is turned of f . 75
If equipped
Adjusting the Sound
BASS
TREBLE
BAL ANCE
SUBWOOFER FADER SVC
A udio System L ighting
Speed-sensit ive VolumeCompensat ion (SVC)
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Playing a Disc
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TUNE KNOBDISPLAY
BUTTON
CD BUTTON
POWER/VOLUME KNOB SCAN
BUTTON
U.S. EX and Canadian EX and EX-L models
EJECT
BUTTON
LOAD
BUTTON REPEAT BUTTON
EJECT
BUTTON
TUNE KNOB
SCAN
BUTTON
SEEK/SKIP BAR
LOAD INDICATOR
CD/AUX
BUTTONDISPLAY
BUTTON
RANDOM
BUTTON
POWER/VOLUME KNOB
U.S. EX-L model
SEEK/SKIP BAR RANDOM BUTTON
LOAD
INDICATOR
DISC SLOT
REPEAT
BUTTON
DISC SLOT
LOAD
BUTTON
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CONT INUED
To load or play discs, the ignition
switch must be in the ACCESSORY
(I) or ON (II) position.
You operate the disc changer with
the same controls used f or the radio.
To select the disc changer, press the
CD button (CD/AUX button on
models with satellite radio), the disc
and track numbers are displayed.
The system will continuously play a
disc until you change modes. Compatible with variable bit rate
and multi-session
NOTE:
If a f ile on an MP3 or WMA disc is
protected by digital rights
management (DRM), the audio unit
displays FORMAT, and then skips to
the next f ile.
Video CDs and DVD discs do not
work in this unit.
The specif ications of the compatible
MP3 f ile are:
Sampling f requency:
32/44.1/48 kHz (MPEG1)
24/22.05/16 kHz (MPEG2)
Bit rate:
32/40/48/56/64/80/96/112/128/
160/192/224/256/320 kbps
(MPEG1)
8/16/24/32/40/48/56/64/80/96/
112/128/160 kbps (MPEG2)
Maximum layers (including ROOT): 8 layers
The specif ications of the compatible
WMA f ile are: Bit rate:
48/64/80/96/128/160/192 kbps
Compatible with variable bit rate
and multi-session
Maximum layers
(including ROOT): 8 layers
This audio system can also play
CD-Rs and CD-RWs compressed in
MP3 or WMA f ormats. When
playing a disc in MP3, you will see
‘‘MP3’’ in the display. In WMA
f ormat, ‘‘WMA’’ will appear in the
display. You can select up to 99 f olders, or up to 255 tracks/f iles.
Sampling f requency:
32/44.1/48 kHz
To Play a Disc
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Do not use discs with adhesive labels.
The label can curl up and cause the
disc to jam in the unit.
Your vehicle’s in-dash disc changer
holdsuptosixdiscs.Press the LOAD button until you
hear a beep and see ‘‘LOAD’’ in
the display.
To load only one CD, press and
release the LOAD button.
The disc number f or an empty
position is highlighted and the red
disc load indicator starts blinking. Insert the disc into the disc slot
when the green disc load indicator
comes on. Insert it only about
half way; the drive will pull it in the
rest of the way. You will see
‘‘BUSY’’ in the display while the
disc load indicator turns red and
blinks as the disc is loaded.
You cannot load and play 3-inch
(8-cm)discsinthissystem.
When the disc load indicator turns
green and ‘‘LOAD’’ appears in the
display again, insert the next disc
in the slot. Do not try to insert a
disc until ‘‘LOAD’’ appears. You
could damage the audio unit.
Repeat this until all six positions
are loaded. If you are not loading
all six positions, the system begins
playing the last disc loaded.You can also load a disc into an
empty position while a disc is playing
by pressing the appropriate preset
button. The system stops playing the
current disc and starts the loading
sequence. It plays the disc just
loaded.
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Each time you press the DISP button,
the display shows you the text data
on a disc, if the disc was recorded
with text data.
With the f older name, you will see
the FOLDER indicator in the display.
The TRACK indicator is shown with
the file or track name.
The display shows up to about 16
characters of selected text data (the
foldername,filename,etc.).If the
text data has more than 16
characters, you will see the first 15
characters and the indicator in
the display. Press and hold the DISP
button until the next 16 characters
are shown. You will also see some text data
under these conditions:
When a new f older, f ile, or track is
selected.
When you change the audio mode
to play a disc with text data or in
MP3 or WMA.
When you insert a disc, and the
system begins to play.
When playing a CD-DA with text
data, the album and track name are
showninthedisplay.Withadiscin
MP3 or WMA, the display shows the
f older and f ile name.
To select a dif f erent disc, press the
appropriate preset button (1 6). If
youselectanemptypositioninthe
disc changer, the system will try to
load the disc in the next available
slot. You can use the SEEK/SKIP bar
while a disc is playing to select
passages and change tracks (f iles in
MP3/WMA mode).
Each time you
press and release the side of
the SEEK/SKIP bar, the player skips
f orward to the beginning of the next
track (f ile in MP3 or WMA mode).
Press and release the side, to
skip backward to the beginning of
the current track. Press it again to
skip to the beginning of the previous
track.
To move rapidly within a track, press
and hold the or side of the
SEEK/SKIP bar.
You can see the album, artist, and
track name in the display. If a disc is
recorded in MP3 or WMA, you can
see the f older and f ile name, and the
artist, album, and track tag.
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T o Change or Select T racks/Files
SEEK /SK IP
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NOTE: With the optional CD changer,
use the preset buttons (5 or 6) to select
a different disc. Press and release the
preset 5 (DISC ) button to select the
previous disc or preset 6 (DISC
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To
select a different folder, turn the
TUNE knob to move to the
beginning of the next f older. Turn
theknobtotherighttoskiptothe
next f older, and to the lef t to move to
the beginning of the current f older.
Turn it again to skip to the beginning
of the previous f older. Turning the
TUNE knob more than one click
skips several f olders at a time.
To continuously replay
a track (f iles in MP3 or WMA mode),
press and release the RPT button.
You will see RPT in the display.
Press and hold the RPT button for 2
seconds to turn it off.
This feature,
when activated, replays all f iles on
the selected f older in the order they are compressed. To activate folder
repeat, press and release the RPT
button repeatedly until you see F-
RPT in the display. The system
continuously replays the current
folder.PressandholdtheRPT
button for 2 seconds to turn it off.
Selecting a dif f erent f older with the
TUNE knob also turns of f the repeat
feature.
You will hear a beep. To continuously
replay the current disc, press and
release the RPT button repeatedly
until you see D-RPT in the display.
Press and hold the RPT button for 2
seconds again to turn it of f .
Each time you press and release the
RPT button, the mode changes f rom
f ile repeat to f older repeat, to disc
repeat then to normal playing.
This f eature plays the
tracks within a disc (the f iles within a disc in MP3 or WMA mode) in
random order. To activate random
play, press and release the RDM
button. In MP3 or WMA mode, press
the RDM button repeatedly to select
RDM (within a disc random play).
You will see RDM in the display.
PresstheRDMbuttonfor2seconds
to return to normal play.
This
feature, when activated, plays all
f iles on the selected f older in random
order. To activate f older random,
press and release the RDM button
seeF-RDMinthedisplay.The
system will then select and play f iles
randomly. This continues until you
deactivate f older random by pressing
andholdtheRDMbuttonfor2
seconds, or by selecting a dif f erent
folder with the TUNE knob.
In MP3 or WMA mode
In MP3 or WMA mode In MP3 or WMA mode
FOLDER SELECTION
REPEAT (TRACK/FILE
REPEAT)
FOL DER-REPEA T
DISC-REPEA T
RANDOM (Random within a
disc)FOLDER-RANDOM
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