User's Manual

Monitor ST Remote
Here is a brief description of how the remote works:
There are two ways to activate buttons in this system. For descriptive purposes, I’ll call
the two actions either a Press or a Hold.
A Press means pushing the button for less than ½ a second, a short duration push.
A Hold means keeping the button down for more than a second, then releasing it.
Remote boots up in about a second when power is applied to the ST or it is hot plugged
to a powered up ST. The remote always boots up with Input 1, Main Speaker, and Dim
selected. If audio sources and speakers are hooked up to the ST, pressing the Dim button
will set the unit into normal operation mode. The Volume control is an Absolute Position
Encoder (as opposed to the cheesy, ubiquitous, continuous rotary encoders everywhere)
so where it points is where the volume is, just like the good old days. The difference to
the good old days is that the encoder controls a Computer Controlled Gain System that
accurately sets the volume in all speaker systems under all conditions to within 0.02dB.
The difference to the good new days is that the CCGS does not use VCA’s or DCA’s so
the sound quality is strikingly good and consistent at all gain settings. This is no small
achievement. A quick rundown of the functions is in order. The buttons are color coded
to organize the functions into groups.
Blues are for programming gain offsets and system configurations.
Greens are for input source, speaker selection, and subwoofer/filter assignments.
Orange switches provide Mono, Aux to Main signal engagement, Talkback, and Dim.
Reds are for speaker Mute/Solo functions.
I’ll start at the end and finish at the beginning!
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