Sony CDX-M1000TF User Manual

Table of Contents

Location of controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Precautions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Notes on discs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
About MP3 files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
General top menu display. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Getting Started

Resetting the unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Setting the clock and the calendar . . . . . . . . 10

CD Player
CD/MD Unit (optional)

Playing a disc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Display items . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Playing tracks repeatedly

— Repeat Play . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Playing tracks in random order

— Shuffle Play . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Labelling a CD

— Disc Memo* . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Locating a disc by name

— List-up*. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Functions available with optional CD/MD unit

Radio

Storing stations automatically

— Best Tuning Memory (BTM) . . . . . . . 15

Display items . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Receiving the stored stations . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Storing only desired stations . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Tuning in a station through a list

— List-up. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

RDS

Overview of RDS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Automatic retuning for best reception results

— AF function. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Receiving traffic announcements

— TA/TP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Presetting RDS stations with AF and TA

setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Tuning in stations by programme type

— PTY. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Setting the clock automatically

— CT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Image Settings

Selecting the display mode and display

pattern . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Clearing display characters automatically

— AutoClear (Spectrum analyzer/Pano-
rama/Screen Saver mode) . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Changing the translucence ratio of the

characters
—BlendLevel (Spectrum analyzer/
Panorama/Screen Saver mode) . . . . . . . . 25

Setting a Plaque

— Plaque. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Setting the character colour

— Color Sel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Selecting the display period of the images

— AutoImage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Other Functions

Using the rotary commander . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Adjusting the sound characteristics . . . . . . . 29
Quickly attenuating the sound . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Changing the sound and display settings

— Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Setting the Dynamic Soundstage Organiser

(DSO) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Setting the equaliser (EQ7) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Adjusting the front and rear volume . . . . . . 32
Adjusting the volume of the

subwoofer(s) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Connecting auxiliary audio equipment . . . . 34
Setting the security code . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Additional Information

Maintenance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Removing the unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Troubleshooting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Error displays/Message . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40