Tuner Operation; Basic Tuner Operation; Station Selection; Preset Tuning - Harman Kardon AVR 8500 Owner's Manual

Tuner Operation

Basic Tuner Operation

The AVR 8500's tuner is capable of tuning AM,
FM and FM Stereo broadcast stations and receiv-
ing RDS data. Stations may be tuned manually, or
they may be stored as favorite station presets and
recalled from a 30 position memory.

Station Selection

1. Press the AM/FM Tuner Select button
on the remote to select the tuner as an input. The
tuner may be selected from the front panel by
either pressing the Input Source Selector
until the tuner is active or by pressing the Tuner
Band Selector at any time.
2. Press the AM/FM Tuner Select button
or Tuner Band Selector again to switch
between AM and FM so that the desired frequen-
cy band is selected.
3. Press the Tuner Mode button
remote or hold the Band Selector
front panel pressed for 3 seconds to select manu-
al or automatic tuning.
When the AUTO indicator is illuminated in the
Main Information Display the tuner will
only stop at those stations that have a strong
enough signal to be received with acceptable
quality.
When the AUTO indicator is not illuminated,
the tuner is in a manual mode and will stop at
each frequency increment in the selected band.
4. To select stations press any Tuning button
. When the AUTO indicator
ated, press the button to cause the tuner to
search for the next highest or lowest frequency
station that has an acceptable signal or hold the
button pressed to tune fastly and release it to
start the auto search. In the Auto mode the tuner
will play each station in stereo or mono mode,
just as the program is transmitted. If the AUTO
indicator is not illuminated, tap the Tuning
button to advance one frequency incre-
ment at a time, or press and hold it to locate a
specific station. When the TUNED indicator
illuminates, the station is properly tuned and
should be heard with clarity.
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5. Stations may also be tuned directly by pressing
the Direct button
Numeric Keys
tion's frequency. Note that for entering numbers
higher than 100 you need to enter only the "1"
rather than "10", the first "0" will be added
automatically. The desired station will automati-
cally be tuned after the latest number is entered.
If you press an incorrect button while entering a
direct frequency, press the Clear button
start over.
NOTE: When the FM reception of a stereo
station is weak, audio quality will be increased
by switching to Mono mode by pressing the
Tuner Mode button
ing the Band Selector
pressed for 3 seconds until the
and indicators go out.
on the
on the
is illumin-

Preset Tuning

, and then pressing the Using the remote, up to 30 stations may be
that correspond to the sta- stored in the AVR's memory for easy recall using
the front panel controls or the remote.
To enter a station into the memory, first tune the
station using the steps outlined above. Then:
1. Press the Memory button
Note that
to
nate and flash in the Main Information
Display
2. Within five seconds, press the Numeric Keys
wish to store this station's frequency. Once
on the remote or hold-
entered, the preset number will appear in the
on the front panel Main Information Display
3. Repeat the process after tuning any additional
stations to be preset.
Recalling Preset Stations
• To manually select a station previously entered
in the preset memory, press the Numeric Keys
memory location.
• To manually tune through the list of stored pre-
set stations one by one, press the Preset
Stations Selector buttons
panel or remote.
on the remote.
indicator will illumi-
.
corresponding to the location where you
.
that correspond to the desired station's
on the front