Sony CDX-M9900 User Guide

Table of Contents

Location of controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Precautions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Notes on discs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
About MP3 files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Basic operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Selecting the display mode and display

pattern . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Getting Started

Resetting the unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Setting the clock and the calendar

— Clock. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

CD Player
CD/MD Unit (optional)

Playing a disc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Display items . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Playing tracks repeatedly

— Repeat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Playing tracks in random order

— Shuffle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Labeling a CD

— Disc Memo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Locating a disc by name

— Disc List* . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Functions available with optional CD/MD unit

Radio

Storing stations automatically

— BTM (Best Tuning Memory) . . . . . . . 19

Display items . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Receiving the stored stations . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Storing only desired stations . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Storing station names

— Station Memo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Tuning in a station through a list

— Preset List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Image Settings

Selecting the face pattern

— Skin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Setting the character color

— Char Color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Changing the display image automatically

— Auto Image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Selecting the effect pattern

— Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Selecting a wallpaper

— Wallpaper. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Setting a panorama image

— Panorama . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Selecting the aspect ratio

— Aspect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Turning off the display characters

— Auto Clear . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Storing the images

— Snapshot. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Selecting the start-up image

— Opening . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Sound Setting

Setting the BBE MP

— BBE MP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Quickly attenuating the sound

— ATT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Setting the Dynamic Soundstage Organizer

— DSO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Setting the equalizer

— EQ7 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Adjusting the bass and treble

— Bass/Treble . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Adjusting the front and rear volume

— Balance/Fader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Adjusting the subwoofer volume

— Sub Woofer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Setting the loudness

— Loudness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Connecting auxiliary audio equipment . . . . 34

Other Functions

Setting the custom function

— Custom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Initializing the unit

— Initialize . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Menus and items . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Using the rotary commander . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Additional Information

Maintenance  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Removing the unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Specifications  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Troubleshooting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Error displays/Messages  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45