HONDA S2000 2000 1.G Owners Manual

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AUTO SELECf -If you are
traveling far from home and can no
longer receive the stations you
preset, you can use the Auto Select
feature to find stations
in the local
area.
To activate Auto Select, press the
A. SEL button. A. SEL will flash in
the display, and the system will go
into scan mode for several seconds.
It automatically scans both bands,
looking for stations with strong
signals;
It stores the frequencies of
six AM stations and twelve FM
stations
in the preset buttons. You
can then use the preset buttons to
select those stations.
If you are in a remote area, Auto
Select may not find six strong AM
stations or twelve strong FM stations.
If this happens, you will see a "0"
displayed when you press any preset
button that does not have a station
stored.
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If you do not like the stations Auto
Select has stored, you can store
other frequencies
in the preset
buttons.
Use the TUNE, SEEK, or
SCAN function to find the desired
frequencies,
then store them in the
selected preset buttons as described
previously.
SCAN BUTTON
A.SELBUTTON
Auto Select does not erase the
frequencies
that you preset pre­
viously. When you return home, turn
off Auto Select by pressing the
A. SEL button. The preset buttons
will then select the frequencies you
originally set.

Adjusting the Sound
Balance/Fader
-These two
controls adjust the strength of the
sound coming from each speaker.
The Balance control adjusts the side­
to-side strength, while the Fader
control adjusts the front-to-back
strength.
To adjust the fader, push on the
BASS/FADER control knob to get it
to pop out.
Pull it out slightly farther,
and adjust the front-to-back sound to
your liking.
Push the knob back in
when you are done so you cannot
change the setting by accidentally
bumping it. With only two speakers,
set the fader control to the
maximum front setting.
To adjust the balance, push on the
TREBLE/BALANCE control knob
to get it to pop out.
Pull it out slightly
farther, and adjust the side-to-side
sound to your liking.
Push the knob
back in when you are done so you
cannot change the setting by
accidentally bumping it.
BAS TRE
FAD PULL BAL
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BASS/FAPER CONTROL· TREBLE/BALANCE CONTROL
Treble/Bass -Use these controls
to adjust the tone to your liking.
To adjust the Treble level, push on
the TREBLE/BALANCE control
knob to
get it to pop out. Without
pulling it out farther, turn the knob
to adjust the treble level.
Push the
knob back
in when you are done so
you cannot change the setting by
accidentally bumping it.
To adjust the Bass level, push on the
BASS/FADER control knob to get it
to pop out. Without pulling it out
farther, turn the knob to adjust the
bass level.
Push the knob back in
when you are done so you cannot
change the setting by accidentally
bumping it.
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Audio System Lighting
The audio system illuminates when
the parking lights are on, even
if the
radio is turned off.
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Radio Frequencies
Your Honda's radio can receive the
complete AM and FM bands.
Those bands cover these frequen­
cies:
AM band:
530 to 1,710 kilohertz
FMband:
87.7 to 107.9 megahertz
Radio stations on
the AM band are
assigned frequencies at least ten
kilohertz apart
(530, 540, 550).
Stations on the FM band are
assigned frequencies
at least 0.2
megahertz apart (87.9, 88.1, 88.3). Stations
must use these exact
frequencies.
It is fairly common for
stations to round-off the frequency
in
their advertising, so your radio could
display a frequency of
100.9 even
though the announcer may identify
the station as
"FM101."

Radio Reception
How well your Honda's radio
receives stations is dependent on
many factors, such as the distance
from the station's transmitter,
nearby large objects, and atmos­
pheric conditions. A
radio station's signal gets weaker
as you get farther away from its
transmitter.
If you are listening to an
AM station, you will notice the sound
volume becoming weaker, and the
station drifting
in and out. If you are
listening to an FM station, you
will
see the stereo indicator flickering off
and on as
the signal weakens.
Eventually, the stereo indicator
will
go off and the sound will fade
completely as you
get out of range of
the station's signal.
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Driving very near the transmitter of
a station that is broadcasting on a
frequency close to the frequency of
the station you are listening to can
also affect your radio's reception.
You may temporarily
hear both
stations, or
hear only the station you
are close to.
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Radio signals, especially on the FM
band, are deflected by large objects
such as buildings and hills. Your
radio then receives both the direct
signal from the station's transmitter,
and the deflected signal. This causes
the sound to distort or flutter. This is
a main cause of poor radio reception
in city driving.
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Radio reception can be affected by
atmospheric conditions such as
thunderstorms, high humidity, and
even sunspots. You may be able to
receive a distant radio station one
day and not receive it
the next day
because of a change
in conditions. Electrical
interference from passing
vehicles and stationary sources can
cause temporary reception problems.

As required by the FCC:
Changes or modifications not expressly
approved
by the party responsible for
compliance could void
the user's
authority to operate the equipment.
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Operating the CD Player
You operate the CD player with the
same controls used for the radio.
With the ignition switch in
ACCESSORY (I) or ON (lD, insert
the disc into the
CD slot. Push the
disc
in halfway, the drive will pull it
in the rest of the way and begin to
play.
The number of the track that is
playing is shown
in the display.
You can also play 3-inch (8-cm) discs
without using an adapter ring. In
all
cases, play only standard round discs.
Odd-shaped CDs may jam in the
drive or cause other problems.
When the system reaches the end of
the disc, it will return to the begin­
ning and play that disc again.
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You can switch to the radio while a
CD is playing by pressing the AM/
FM button. Press the CD button to
return to playing
the CD. The CD
will begin playing where it left off.
If you turn the system off while a CD
·is playing, either with the PWR/VOL
knob or by turning off the ignition,
the disc will stay in the drive. When
you turn the system back on, the
CD
will begin playing where it left off.
Press the eject button to remove the
disc from
the drive.
If you eject the disc, but do not
remove it from
the slot, the system
will automatically reload
the disc
after
15 seconds and put the CD
player in pause mode. To begin
playing the disc, press
the CD button.
You can use the
TUNE and SEEK/
SKIP bars while a disc is playing to
select passages and change tracks.
To move rapidly within a track, press
and hold the
TUNE bar. Press the
~ side to move forward. You will
see
CUE in the display. Press the
~ side to move backward. You
will see REW displayed. Release
the
bar when the system reaches the
point you want.
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Each time you press the ~ side of
the SEEK/SKIP bar,
the system
skips forward to the beginning of the
next track.
Press the 1+111 side to
skip backward to the beginning of
the current track.
Press it again to
skip to the beginning of the previous
track.
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REPEAT -To activate the Repeat
feature, press and release the RPT
button. You
will see RPT in the
display.
The system continuously
replays the current track.
Press the
RPT button again to turn it off.
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RANDOM PLAY -This feature,
when activated, plays
the tracks on
the
CD in random order, rather than
in the order they are recorded on the
CD. To activate Random Play, press
and release the
A. SEL/RDM button.
You will see RDM in the display. The
system will then select and play
tracks randomly. This continues
until you deactivate Random
Play by
pressing
A. SEL/RDM again.
If the system is in Repeat mode, you
must turn it off by pressing the RPT
button before selecting Random
Play.

Operating the CD Changer
(Optional)
A Compact Disc changer is available
for your vehicle.
It holds up to six
discs, providing several hours of
continuous entertainment. You
operate this
CD changer with the
same controls used for the in-dash
CD player.
Load the desired
CDs in the
magazine and load the magazine in
the changer according to the
instructions that came with the unit.
Play only standard round discs. Odd­
shaped CDs may jam in the drive or
cause other problems.
To select the CD changer, press the
CD button. The disc and track
numbers
will be displayed.
To select a different disc, press the
appropriate preset button
(1-6). If
you select an empty slot in the
magazine, the changer
will, after
finding that slot empty, try to load
the
CD in the next slot. This
continues until it finds a CD to load
and play.
If you load a CD in the in-dash player
while the changer is playing a
CD,
the system will stop the changer and
begin playing the in-dash
CD. To
select the changer again, press the
CD button. Play will begin where it
left off.
Use the CD button to switch
between the player and the changer.
If you eject the in-dash CD while it is
playing, the system
will automatically
switch to the
CD changer and begin
play where it left off.
If there are no
CDs in the changer, the display will
flash. You will have to select another
mode
(AM or FM) with the button.
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When you switch back to CD mode,
the system selects the same unit
(in­
dash or changer) that was playing
when you switched out of
CD mode.
To use the SKIP, REPEAT, and
RANDOM functions, refer to the in­
dash player operating instructions.
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