BeoSound 3 Guide
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Contents Introducing your music system, 4 Get to know your music system, see how the buttons are organised on the operation panel, understand and change information in the display. Daily use, 7 Find out how to use your music system, including how to play music from a loaded memory card, use the FM radio, and make the music system start and stop at a specific time. Placement, connections, and maintenance, 12 Find out how to place and connect your music system, as well as how to clean your music system.
Introducing your music system 4 BeoSound 3 is a portable and rechargeable FM radio and memory card player. The sockets on the bottom allow you to connect the system to the mains for recharging, as well as load a memory card and connect headphones. The handle allows you to carry it as well as hang it on the enclosed wall bracket. Touch the operation panel on the top to switch on the radio or start playback of tracks on a loaded SD or MMC memory card.
The operation panel DELETE Store FM stations or system settings, such as a Wake-up Timer. Press twice to store the present volume level. STORE Set a Wake-up Timer. TIMER Extend and retract the built-in aerial. Allow enough space above the system for the aerial to extend. AERIAL Switch the system to standby. Press and hold for five seconds during standby to switch the system off entirely. If you have shut off the system entirely, you can restart it by connecting it to the mains. ST.
>> Introducing your Bang & Olufsen music system Change the display mode at any time. The system remembers your settings. – Press and hold RADIO to switch between displaying the program number and the radio frequency. – Press and hold A MEM to switch between displaying source/folder and folder/track while playing memory card tracks. Information in the display The display keeps you informed about the source you have chosen and the state of the system.
Daily use 7 Use the radio When you switch on the radio, the aerial automatically extends and the system plays the last radio station you listened to. Switch on the radio… > Press RADIO to switch on the radio. The aerial extends, the last station you have listened to is played and the program number or frequency appears in the display. > Press or to step between radio stations. Press and hold or to step quickly between stations.
>> Daily use Only MultiMedia (MMC) and Secure Digital (SD) cards from SanDisk are supported by BeoSound 3. Play tracks from a memory card Your music system can play music tracks in mp3 and wma format in the first level of folders on a memory card. Tracks in the root level or in subfolders will not be played. Music can be copied to the memory card via your computer or, for example, the BeoSound 4.
Step through folders… > Press to step to the first track in the previous folder. > Press to step to the first track in the next folder. Cue through a music track… > Press and hold or to cue through a track. Cueing is done without sound. During cueing, the elapsed time is shown in the display. > Press GO or A MEM to resume playback. Play tracks in random order… > Press A MEM, then STORE in quick succession. A new, randomly selected track begins playing.
>> Daily use Make a Wake-up Timer The Wake-up Timer is a once-only Timer, and must be programmed each time you wish to use it. > While the system is in standby, press TIMER. The time for the latest Wake-up Timer is shown in the display. The digits blink. > Press or to find the time you want the system to start playing. Press and hold or to step quickly to the desired time. > Press the button of the source you want to use for your Wake-up Timer; RADIO or A MEM.
Make a Stop Timer You can set – in increments of 15 minutes – how long the radio is to play before switching to standby. You can still switch to memory card playback or switch the system to standby before the Stop Timer is carried out. If you do so, the Stop Timer is cancelled. > Press RADIO to switch on the radio. > Press STOP to set a Stop Timer. The number of minutes before the radio switches to standby is shown in the display. You can choose between 00, 15, 30, 45, 60, 90 and 120 minutes.
Placement, connections and maintenance 12 Placement Your music system is designed for indoor use in dry, domestic environments only, and for use within a temperature range of 0–40˚ C (32–105˚ F) and a relative humidity range of 25–75%. Make sure that the system is always placed on a firm, stable surface when not hanging from the enclosed wall bracket. Avoid placing the system in direct sunlight, near radiators or other sources of heat.
Connect headphones You can connect headphones to the socket on the bottom of the system. When headphones are connected, the speaker is muted. Charge the battery To charge the system, connect it to the mains as shown. The standby indicator in the display blinks slowly during charging. Refer to page 4 for further information about the standby indicator. – It takes two and a half hours to fully charge the battery during standby, and up to ten hours to charge it during use.
Tuning and preference settings Tune in radio stations > Press RADIO to switch on the radio. > Press or to start the tuning function. If you are tuning radio stations for the first time, you can also press or to start tuning. > When a station is found, the frequency is shown in the display. > Press STORE to store a program. The first available program number blinks in the display. > Press or to change the program number, if you like. > Press STORE to store the station on the displayed program number.
Delete a program > Press RADIO to switch on the radio. > Press or to find the program you wish to delete. > Press DELETE twice to delete the program. The display blinks and the radio switches to the next program number. Set the built-in clock > While the system is in standby, press and hold ST.BY until the time blinks in the display. If no time is set, the display shows ‘- -.- -’ instead of digits. > Press or to find the correct time. Holding down a button accelerates the search.
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