CDR 30 (serv.man6) - Harman Kardon Audio User Guide / Operation Manual. Page 18

18 PLAYBACK BASICS

Dual-Play Mode
Since the CDR 30 has more than one CD deck,
you may play a disc in either drawer. After the
unit was turned on or the Single Play Select
6 button on the remote or Dual/Single Play
Select ¸ button on the front panel was
pressed, the unit will turn to the Single mode. In
that mode the Single Play Indicator D is lit
and only one disc may play at a time, even when
both decks are loaded with discs. Moreover in
the Single mode, the audio output will be fed to
all digital and analog Output jacks ¢∞•
ª¡™ for both decks. This means you may
select the input on your receiver, preamp or
processor for either deck. For example, if you
have the Play Deck connected to ”CD” and the
Record Deck connected to ”Tape,” when any
deck is playing, either input may be selected.

It is also possible to play two discs at once, using
the Dual mode. To initiate dual-mode playback,
press the Dual Play Select 

N¸ button on

the remote or on the front panel until the Dual-
Play Indicator D is lit. You may play a differ-
ent disc in both decks at the same time and you
even may record on a disc in the CDR deck 

P

and play a disc in the CDP deck 

3 simul-

tanously. The output of each deck will be sent to
its analog and digital output jacks, and you will
need to select the deck you wish to listen to
using the input selectors on your receiver, pre-
amp or processor. You may also use the output of
one deck to feed your main-room system, while
the second deck is used to feed a remote room.

As long as the Dual-Play Indicator D is lit,
each deck functions as a separate CD player, and
will respond to its own set of controls on the
front panel for either the Record Deck (Ó
ÔÚÛÙˆ

or Play Deck ˘

. To control the transports using the
remote, remember to first press the Selector but-
ton for either the Play/CDP Deck

3 or the

P, and then press the

desired command function.

It is possible to view the level for either the out-
put of the CDP/Play deck or the CDR/Record
deck. To select the display to be viewed, press
the desired Level Indicator Select t.

NOTE: When in the Dual mode, you may return
to Single play mode by pressing the Single Play
Select Button

6 on the remote or the

Dual/Single Play Select Button ¸ on the
front panel. However, pressing the Single
Button

6¸ while both decks are playing, will

automatically stop playback of the disc in the
Record Deck % while the disc in the Play
Deck 3 continues to play, and the output of
the play deck will be sent to both sets of output
jacks.

NOTE: When using the dual-play function with a
conventional Audio CD in one deck and an MP3
or HDCD-encoded disc in the other, start with

either of those discs first before playing the con-
ventional CD Audio disc.

NOTE: Remember that only one MP3 disc may
play at a time, even when the Dual Play mode is
in use. If two discs containing MP3 selections are
loaded in the CDR 30, one must be removed and
replaced with a standard CD Audio disc for the
dual play mode to operate.

Two-Disc Changer Operation
Since the CDR 30 has two separate CD decks, it
may be used to function as a two-disc changer,
so that you can play two discs one after the
other

When the CDR 30 is in the Single-Play mode, as
shown by the Single-Play Indicator D being
lit, when the disc in one deck has played through
to the end, the disc in the other deck will auto-
matically begin to play. Each disc will play
through, and when one deck is finished the other
will start. To stop playback, press the Stop but-
ton

KÓ for the deck that is currently

playing.

To have the CDR 30 function as two separate CD
players, where the deck in use stops at the end
of a disc, press the Dual Button ¸

N until

the Dual-Play Indicator D lights. In the Dual
mode, each deck acts independently of the other
and when the disc in one deck finishes, it stops
unless one of the Repeat functions has been acti-
vated (see page 19).

Time Display
The CDR 30’s time display is capable of showing
a wide range of information about the contents
of a CD.

For Standard CD Audio discs, once the disc’s
Table of Contents or TOC data has been read, the
Time/Message Display F will show the num-
ber of tracks on the disc in the two left digits of
the display, and the total running time of the disc
in the remainder of the display. When the disc is
playing, the tracks will count up as each new
track is reached, and time display will show the
elapsed time for the track being played.

To view the time remaining in the track being
played, press the Display button

1

ˆ˘

for the deck in use so that the Track

Remain Time Indicators WTS illuminate.
The Time/Message Display F will count
down the time remaining in the track, and at the
start of the next track the counter will start to
count down the running time of that track.

To view the total time remaining on the disc,
press the Display Button

1ˆ˘ for the

deck in use so that the Total Remain Time
Indicators VTS light. The Time/Message
Display F will show the total time remaining
for all tracks on the disc and count down until
the disc has finished playing. Note that all time
modes listed above are selectable also with pro-
grammed tracks (see page 19) except the total
remaining time.

For MP3 discs, once the disc’s Table of Contents
data has been read, the Time/Message Display
F

will show the total number of tracks on the

disc. During disc playback, press the appropriate
Display Button 

1ˆ˘ for the deck in

use, and with each press the display will cycle
through the following available information:
Elapsed time of current track ➜ Remaining Time
of current track ➜ Current Track Number ➜ File
name of Current Track (Up to the first six digits)

To read the total time of all tracks recorded on
an MP3 disc, the disc must be stopped. Then,
press and hold the CDP or CDR Display
Button

1ˆ˘ (as appropriate) for three

seconds, until a TTL TIME ON message
appears in the Time/Message Display F. Then
press the CDP or CDR Display Button again to
alternate between a display of the total number
of tracks and the total time of the disc. Press and
hold the CDP or CDR Display Button
1ˆ˘ again for three seconds until a
TTL TIME OFF

message appears in the

Time/Message Display F to return to stan-
dard display.

Headphone Listening
You may listen to the output of the CDR 30
through headphones at any time by simply plug-
ging the headphones into the Front-Panel Jack
4

. The volume of the headphone output may be

adjusted with the Headphones Level Control
5

. Note that changes to the headphone level

will not alter the output settings to the analog
outputs. Those levels are fixed, and the volume
should be adjusted using your receiver, preamp
or processor.

Note that when only one deck is playing back a
disc in the single play mode, the output of that
deck will be fed to the headphone jack. When
the unit is in the Dual-Playback mode, only the
output of the Play Deck 3 will be fed to the
headphone jack.