Harman Kardon AVR 507 Limited Edition Owner's Manual

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38 TUNER OPERATIONTuner OperationBasic Tuner OperationThe AVR 507’s tuner is capable of tuning AM, FMand FM Stereo broadcast stations and receivingRDS data. Stations may be tuned manually, orthey may be stored as favorite station presets andrecalled from a 30 position memory.Station Selection1. Press the AM/FM Tuner Select button 6on the remote to select the tuner as an input.The tuner may be selected from the front panelby either pressing the Input Source Selector% until the tuner is active or by pressing theTuner Band Selector ! at any time.2. Press the AM/FM Tuner Select button 6or Tuner Band Selector ! again to switchbetween AM and FM so that the desiredfrequency band is selected.3. Press the Tuner Mode button I on theremote or hold the Band Selector ! on thefront panel pressed for 3 seconds to selectmanual or automatic tuning.When the button is pressed so that AUTOappears in the Main Information Display ˜each press of the Tuning Selectors 8J willput the tuner in a scan mode that seeks the nexthigher or lower frequency station with accept-able signal strength. An AUTO S T TUNEDindication will momentarily appear when the sta-tion stops at a stereo FM station, and anAUTO TUNED indication will momentarilyappear when an AM or monaural FM station istuned. Press the Tuning buttons again to scan tothe next receivable station.When the button is pressed so that MANUALappears in the Main Information Display ˜each tap of the Selector will increased ordecrease the frequency by one increment. Whenthe tuner receives a strong enough signal foradequate reception, MANAUL TUNED willappear in the Main Information Display ˜.4. Stations may also be tuned directly by press-ing the Direct button J, and then pressingthe Numeric Keys H that correspond to thestation’s frequency. Note that for entering num-bers higher than 100 you need to enter only the"1" rather than "10", the first "0" will beadded automatically. The desired station willautomatically be tuned after the latest number isentered. If you press an incorrect button whileentering a direct frequency, press the Clearbutton # to start over.NOTE: When the FM reception of a stereostation is weak, audio quality will be increasedby switching to Mono mode by pressing theTuner Mode button I on the remote or hold-ing the Band Selector ! on the front panel sothat MANUAL appears momentarily in theMain Information Display ˜ and then goesout.Preset TuningUsing the remote, up to 30 stations may bestored in the AVR’s memory for easy recall usingthe front panel controls or the remote.To enter a station into the memory, first tune thestation using the steps outlined above. Then:1. Press the Memory button $ on theremote. Note that two underscore lines willappear in the Main Information Display ˜.2. Within five seconds, press the NumericKeys H corresponding to the location whereyou wish to store this station’s frequency. Onceentered, the preset number will appear in theMain Information Display ˜.3. Repeat the process after tuning any additionalstations to be preset.Recalling Preset Stations• To manually select a station previously enteredin the preset memory, press the Numeric KeysH that correspond to the desired station’smemory location.• To manually tune through the list of storedpreset stations one by one, press the PresetStations Selector buttons # " on thefront panel or remote.