Master Control Panel 5500 display

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Hello,

I can't figure out how to keep display settings on the panel.

I want it to display the tuner frequencies at all times, but I only get the station number... Same thing for the CD player, how do you set it to display the real time counter as soon as a CD is playing?

Is there a way to have keep the display illuminated longer than 5 seconds?

Thanks.

I believe the answer to all questions is: you don't 😛

Mine (BS6500) does show the frequency whenever you call up the display using "status" or you have tuned manually, but I guess the idea is that you wouldn't care that much about the frequency when you're using a preset: it's known already, isn't it?

The reason behind all this is probably saving the batteries...

Thanks Mika!

Hi,

How do I go to AM radio?

There is no AM/FM switch on the MCP 5500! I have the manual, but the radio section is missing...

Thanks.

Out of memory, it's NEXT or TURN or some such...

A little known trick (at least if you've never seen the user manual 😎 ) is queuing sources. First select a source to play, then press PLAY NEXT and another source, and so on; you can for example automatically switch to radio after a record has finished, or play a CD and a tape in between. The radio obviously will never finish, so it needs to be last in the queue 🙂 Standby clears the queue.

tournedos wrote:
Out of memory, it's NEXT or TURN or some such...

Thanks, but 😕 NEXT 😕 TURN

 😎

 

For everything TURN TURN TURN

there is a season TURN TURN TURN

TURN will do....

  Gunther

hemenex wrote:

For everything TURN TURN TURN

there is a season TURN TURN TURN

TURN will do....

This is getting worse! Erm

Am I being thick or what? 😎

chartz wrote:
This is getting worse! Erm

where's the problem 👍

   Gunther

hemenex wrote:

chartz wrote:
This is getting worse! Erm

 

where's the problem 👍

   Gunther

I am, I guess... Ta!

 

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