First Things First; Powering Up; Speaker Hookup - RCA RP-7983 User Manual

First Things First

Before you start, you to need to know a couple of things.

Powering Up

This portable stereo operates on battery or AC power.
Battery Power
Insert 8 D-sized alkaline batteries into the battery
compartment as shown the back of the main unit,
and you can take your stereo just about anywhere.
AC Power
Plug the power supply cord into the AC power jack on the
back of the unit and into an AC power outlet that accepts the
polarized plug (one blade wider than the other).

Speaker Hookup

To speaker terminals on main cabinet back:
1. Press down on the tab to open the red terminal and insert
the red wire (+) into the terminal.
2. Press down on the tab to open the black terminal and
insert the black wire (–) into the terminal.
3. Ensure left speaker wires are connected to left speaker
terminal and right speaker wires are connected to right
speaker terminal.
Detaching the Speakers from main unit
1. Disconnect the speaker wires from the main cabinet
terminals.
2. Press on the tab securing the speaker to the base unit and
then slide the speaker up until it comes off of the unit.
3. Reattach the speaker wires to main cabinet speaker
terminal as described in "Speaker Hookup."
Attaching Speakers to the main cabinet
1. Slide the speaker down the side rail on cabinet side.
2. Speaker release tab locks in place.
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RECORD PLAY REWIND F FORWARD STOP/
EJECT
MULTI FUNCTION DISPLAY
STEREO REPEAT 1 ALL PROGRAM SHUFFLE PLAY PAUSE
CD FM kHz
TAPE AM MHz
TRACK MW RADIO
PRESET SEEK
MUTE VOLUME SCAN ROCK JAZZ VOCAL FLAT
TUNING
CD
BAND SEEK/SCAN FM MONO
TUNER PRESETS RADIO
TAPE
1 3 5
2 4 M
PLAY/PAUSE
SHUFFLE REPEAT PROGRAM
OPEN
VOL
MUTE
VOL
POWER
FUNCTION DIG EQ
CUST EQ
PRESET
BAND SEEK•SCAN
TRACK•TUNE
SHUFFLE REPEAT
PLAY•PAUSE STOP
AC power supply cord
Remote Control
RP-7984 ONLY
RIGHT SPEAKER
+
–
Black
wires
WARNING:
Be sure to follow the speaker hookup
instructions carefully; the system can
be damaged if speakers are
improperly connected.
PAUSE
VOLUME
PHONES
D igital E Q
TRACK/
SEARCH STOP
LEFT SPEAKER
– +