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Operation

10

To load a disc, first turn the FL8350 on
using the 

1

. Note that

the 

2

will

turn green and the 

Ó

will illuminate. The word

disc

will flash in the Information

Display, and the disc tray will
automatically turn clockwise so that the
FL8350 can sense which, if any, of the disc
positions already have a disc.

To load a disc, first press the 

button 

! a

, taking care to make cer-

tain that the space in front of the drawer is
not obstructed. Note that if the drawer is
blocked when attempting to open it, it will
automatically close within five seconds to
protect the mechanism.

Load discs in the tray with the printed
(label) side facing up towards you. Make
certain that the disc is centered in the tray.
Either 5" (12cm) or 3" (8cm) discs may be
used. When a 3" (8cm) disc is played, it
should be carefully centered within the
smaller ridges inside the cassette drawer.
Only one CD may be placed in any position
at a time. When a 3" (8cm) is played, DO
NOT place a standard 5" (12cm) disc over
the smaller disc.

Labeled Surface

Note that each disc position has a number
embossed in the plastic tray. This
corresponds to the position this disc will
occupy for playback and programming. To
make it easier to identify each disc’s
position, the disc position number for the
holder space that is in the center of the
disc tray will also appear in the
Information Display when the disc drawer
is open.

To rotate the disc tray to another position,
press the 

button 

* p

. The

tray will revolve clockwise to the next slot,
and the Information Display will indicate
the position number for the slot in the
middle of the tray.

To close the disc drawer, press the 

button 

! a

. When the drawer

closes, the disc that was last in the center
position on the tray will be readied for play.
Its number will appear in the Information
Display, and a flashing red line will
surround the icon for that disc. The icons
for all other tray positions that have a disc
will be surrounded with a blue line. If the
center disc position is empty when the
drawer is closed, the unit will search for
the next position with a disc loaded, and
place that spot in the ready mode.

The drawer may also be closed and the
FL8350 put into play by pressing the 

button 

$ h

. This will put the disc in the

center position into the Play mode. 
To close the drawer and play a specific
disc, press the 

button 

(

b

corresponding to the tray position

number for the disc you wish to play.

When the disc drawer closes, the
Information Display will briefly display the
disc number, the total number of tracks on
the disc and the disc’s total 

running time. After five seconds, the
display will indicate the disc number that
is in the play position, both by a flashing
red line surrounding the disc’s icon and
the wording in the display, such as 

disc 5

. The total number of tracks on

the disc will illuminate at the far right side
of the display.

To remove a disc from the player, press the

button 

! a

. The drawer

will open, allowing the discs to be
removed. Press the 

button 

*

p

to rotate the disc carousel tray to

reach discs that may be covered. When a
disc does not occupy a numbered tray, and
the sensor detects no disc present, the disc
number will drop from the display.

Upon placing a disc in the unoccupied
tray, the disc number will reappear when
detected by the sensor mechanism.

Disc-Handling Notes
When loading or unloading discs, it is best
to hold them by the edges.

While Compact Discs are very reliable,
rough handling may damage them. Avoid
scratching the bottom (non-printed) side
of discs, or any handling that will leave
fingerprints.

To avoid damage to the disc and player,
always seat discs so that they are centered
in the tray.

Do not lift the player while the disc tray 
is opening or closing, as this may cause
the discs to unseat from the tray and 
possibly jam.

DISC

MIN

SEC

TRACK

1

1

2

3

4

5

1 2 3 4 5

6 7 8 9 10

11 12

Operation

11

Once the discs have been loaded, they may
be played in a number of different ways.

To play all of the tracks on each disc in
order, starting with the first track on the
disc currently in the play position, and
proceeding through each higher disc
position that has been loaded, press the

button 

$ h

.

To start play on a specific disc proceeding
through each higher disc position loaded,
press the 

button 

( b

that

corresponds to the desired disc’s position in
the disc tray.

To play the discs in the FL8350 in random
order, press the 

button 

@ i

and then the 

button 

$ h

. The

RANDOM

indicator will light and the

FL8350 will select a disc from those loaded,
and then select a track to play. At the
conclusion of the first track selection,
another disc and track will be selected.
Playback will continue with each disc and
track being randomly chosen by the
FL8350’s microprocessor until all tracks on
all discs have been played.

When a disc is in play, the Information
Display will show a play indication 

fl

,

and the icon for the disc position in use
will flash. The track being played will show
both as a large number in the middle of
the display and as a smaller, flashing num-
ber at the right side of the display. The
elapsed time of the track being played will
appear in the display. As the disc plays, the
track numbers will change, and the time
will reset to 

at the start of each new

track. To momentarily pause the play of a
disc, press the 

button 

# j

. Note

that a Pause indication 

±

will appear in

the display to remind you that the disc is 

paused. Press either the 

button 

$

h

or the 

button 

# j

to

resume to normal play.

You may also directly select a specific track
on the disc being played directly by
entering the track number via the

c d

. To play

tracks one through ten, simply press the
button 

c

corresponding to the desired

track. To select a track number above 10,
first press the 

button 

d

until the

first digit of the track number is shown in
the display. For example, press the button
once for tracks 11 through 20 (10+10),
twice for 21 through 30 (20+10), and so
forth. Once the first digit of the track
number is selected, press the 

button 

c

corresponding to the second

digit within five seconds. The unit will
pause briefly to find the track and then go
into the play mode.

To stop the disc, press the 

button 

% g

. Each time the stop button is

pressed the display will briefly show the
total number of tracks and total running
time of the last disc to be played.

The FL8350’s Play Exchange feature
allows you to change discs while the
machine is playing. Using this feature you
can have uninterrupted play of an
unlimited number of discs, since the
drawer may be opened and discs changed
while the machine is still in play.

To use the Play Exchange function, simply
press the 

button 

! a

at

any time while the unit is in the Play
mode. The disc drawer will open and two
discs will be available for change. Replace
either disc, or both, as desired. To reach
the other two discs, press the 

button 

* p

. You may now remove and

change either of these two discs.

When you have finished making any disc
changes, press the 

button

! a

. The drawer will close and play

will continue with normal functions.

The FL8350’s time display is capable of
showing a wide range of information
about a CD.

In normal operation the display will show
the running time of the track that is
currently being played. Each time the
track changes, the time display will reset to

and begin to increase again as the

disc plays.

To view the time remaining on an
individual track, press the 

button

6 l

once. The display will now show

the time left in the track currently playing.

To view the total time remaining to play
on the disc, press the 

button 

6 l

twice. In this time display mode the

TRACK

indication will show the tracks

remaining, not the usual display of the
track being played.

You may listen to the output of the FL8350
through headphones by plugging a set of
standard headphones with a 1/4"
headphone plug into the front panel

3

. The volume of

the headphone output may be adjusted
with the 

4

. Note that changing the headphone

level will not change the volume for the
main audio output. This is a fixed output,
and it is changed using the volume control
on your receiver, preamplifier or surround
processor.

Search Functions

12

The FL8350 is equipped with a variety of
functions that make it easy to search for
specific parts of any CD.

If you wish to quickly scan through a disc
to locate a particular passage or program,
press the 

buttons 

& e

. The

button 

—

plays the

disc forward in high speed, while the

button 

‚

plays the

disc backwards in high speed. When the
desired part of the disc is heard, release the

button to resume normal play

speed.

To move from one track on a disc to
another, press one of the 

buttons 

^

f

. Pressing the 

button

fl·

· will move you forwards through the

disc, one track at a time, while pressing the

button 

‡fi

will move

you back one track at a time. Holding any
of the buttons pressed will skip through the
tracks fastly.

The Skip buttons may be used when the
FL8350 is either playing or stopped. If the
unit is stopped, the Skip buttons may be
used to locate the first track to be played.
The 

button 

$ h

must be pressed

to begin play. If the Skip buttons are used
while the unit is already playing, the audio
output will stop while the new track is
located, and play will automatically
resume after the Skip button is released.

This feature lets you locate a track by
playing the first 10 seconds of each track.
When the 

button 

8 k

is pressed,

the unit will play only 10 seconds of each
track, and then automatically move to the
next track. When you have reached a track
that you wish to listen to in its entirety,
press the Intro button again to resume
normal operation. When the Intro feature
is activated, the  

INTRO

indicator will

illuminate in the 

Ó

to remind you that Intro Search is in

use.

When the Intro button is pressed, the
FL8350 will first play through the disc that
is currently in the play position, and then
move on to each higher disc position that
is loaded.

Programmed Play Operation

13

The FL8350’s advanced programming
capability enables you to preset specific
tracks of any CD and the order in which
tracks play, to repeat specific discs or tracks
or to repeat all discs and tracks.

Programmed play allows you to program
up to 32 tracks or complete-disc play-
through into the FL8350’s memory. To
begin programming the FL8350, press the

button 

) n

. The 

PROGRAM

indicator will light in the 

Ó

.

You may now begin to enter the discs and
tracks in the order in which you wish to
have them play. Once the 

PROGRAM

indicator is lit, 

P-01

will appear in the

Information Display, replacing the track
time. This indicates that you are about to
program the first track.

Press the appropriate 

button

( b

to choose the first disc to be

programmed, and note that 

ALL

will

flash in the Information Display. To have
all tracks on the disc play in order as the
first program step, press the 

button 

) n

. To select a single track on

the disc, press the 

buttons 

c

corresponding to the desired track. You
may also use the 

buttons 

^ f

to

select a track.

When the disc and track are selected, press
the 

button 

) n

. Note that

the program step indication on the right
side of the Information Display will
change to 

P-02

. You may now select

another disc and/or track for the next
program step following the instruction
shown above. When the program step is
selected, press the 

button 

)

n

. Repeat this procedure for each

program step until you have completed the
desired programming. Press the 

button 

% g

once to complete a

program sequence, or press 

$ h

to begin immediate play of a program
sequence. If the maximum of 32 program
steps is reached, the program step
indication at the right side of the
Information Display will go out, and the
disc and track that have been programmed
as the first program step will be shown.

Once a program list has been made, press
the 

button 

$ h

to begin listening

to the sequence. After the entire program
has been played, the FL8350 will stop. As
long as the 

button 

% g

has not

been pressed, until the 

PROGRAM

indicator goes out, you may repeat the
programmed play sequence again by
pressing the 

button 

$ h

.

Pressing the 

button

% g

, opening

the disc drawer by pressing the

button 

! a

or turning

the FL8350 off will erase the program
information from the unit’s memory.

To check the contents of a program while
the unit is stopped, press the 

buttons

^ f

and the Information Display will

step through each of the programmed
discs and tracks.

When the unit is stopped, but the

PROGRAM

indicator is still lit, you may

clear the entire contents of a program by
pressing the 

button 

9 m

.