Sony STR-DA2000ES User Manual
Fm stereo fm/am receiver

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©2003 Sony Corporation
4-247-241-11(1)
FM Stereo
FM/AM Receiver
Operating Instructions
Owner’s Record
The model and serial numbers are located on the rear of the unit. Record the serial
number in the space provided below. Refer to them whenever you call upon your
Sony dealer regarding this product.
Model No.
Serial No.
STR-DA2000ES
STR-DB2000
Table of contents
Document Outline
- WARNING
- About This Manual
- Connectable components
- Required cords
- If you have Sony components with CONTROL A1II/CONTROL S jacks
- Hooking up a DVD player, TV monitor, or satellite tuner
- Hooking up an MD/DAT deck
- Hooking up audio components
- Hooking up video components
- Performing initial setup operations
- Speaker setup parameters
- Automatic tuning
- Direct tuning
- Presetting radio stations
- 1 Rotate INPUT SELECTOR to select “FM” or “AM”.
- 2 Tune in the station that you want to preset using Automatic Tuning (page25) or Direct Tuning (...
- 3 Press MEMORY/ENTER.
- 4 Press PRESET TUNING + or PRESET TUNING – to select a preset number.
- 5 Press MEMORY/ENTER again.
- 6 Repeat steps 2 to 5 to preset another station.
- Tuning to preset stations
- Receiving RDS broadcasts
- Displaying RDS information
- Description of program types
- Changing the information in the display
- Displaying the input stream information
- 1 Press MAIN MENU to select “STREAM INFO”.
- 2 Rotate MENU.
- 3 Rotate –/+ for more information.
- About the indications in the display
- B SLEEP: Lights up when sleep timer is activated.
- C SPA/SPB: Lights up in accordance with the speaker system being used (A or B). Turns off when he...
- D MULTI CH IN 1/2: Lights up when “MULTI 1 DIRECT” or “MULTI 2 DIRECT” is selected.
- E ; DIGITAL (EX): Lights up when Dolby Digital signals are input. “EX” lights up when Dolby Digit...
- F ; PRO LOGIC (II): Lights up when the receiver applies Pro Logic processing to 2 channel signals...
- G DTS (-ES): Lights up when DTS signals are input. “-ES” lights up when DTS-ES signals are input....
- H 96/24: Lights up when the receiver is decoding DTS 96 kHz/24 bit signals.
- I Tuner indicators: Lights up when using the receiver to tune in radio stations, etc. See pages 2...
- J MEMORY: Lights up when presetting stations, naming preset stations and inputs, etc.
- K D.ASSIGN: Lights up when the digital assign function is used for the selected input.
- L COAX: Lights up when the source signal is a digital signal being input through the COAXIAL term...
- M OPT: Lights up when the source signal is a digital signal being input through the OPTICAL termi...
- N NEO:6: Lights up when DTS Neo:6 Cinema/ Music decoding is activated. However, this indicator do...
- O EQ: Lights up when the equalizer is activated.
- P D.RANGE: Lights up when dynamic range compression is activated (page43).
- Q Playback channel indicators: The letters (L, C, R, etc.) indicate the channels being played bac...
- R L.F.E.: Lights up when the disc being played back contains the LFE (Low Frequency Effect) chann...
- Using only the front speakers
- Listening to 2 channel stereo sources (2CH STEREO)
- Decoding the input audio signal automatically
- Enjoying stereo sound in multi channel (2 channel decoding mode)
- Selecting a sound field for movies
- Selecting a sound field for music
- Listening to the sound without any adjustment
- How to select the surround back decoding mode
- Adjusting the LEVEL menu
- 1 Start playing a source encoded with multi channel surround effects (DVD, etc.).
- 2 Press MAIN MENU to select “LEVEL”.
- 3 Rotate MENU to select the parameter.
- 4 While monitoring the sound, rotate –/+ to adjust the selected parameter.
- 5 Repeat steps 3 and 4 to adjust the other parameters.
- LEVEL menu parameters
- For advanced LEVEL menu adjustments
- Resetting sound fields to the initial settings
- Using the CUSTOMIZE menu to adjust the receiver
- Advanced SP. SET UP menu parameters
- Advanced LEVEL menu parameters
- Recording on an audio tape or MiniDisc
- Recording on a video tape
- 1 Select the program source to be recorded.
- 2 Prepare the component for playing.
- 3 Insert a blank video tape into the VCR (VIDEO 1 or VIDEO 2) for recording.
- 4 Start recording on the recording VCR, then start playing the video tape or laser disc you want ...
- Tip
- Notes
- Listening to the sound in another zone
- 1 On the remote, press ?/1 while holding down USE MODE.
- 2 Press v/V on the remote to select “2ND”.
- 3 Turn on the main receiver (this receiver).
- 4 Press ?/1 on the remote.
- 5 Press one of the input buttons on the remote to select the source signals you want to output.
- 6 Turn on the amplifier in the 2nd zone and adjust the volume.
- Listening to the sound in another zone
- Tips
- 2nd zone connections
- Connections
- Basic Functions
- Using CONTROL S Control System
- Main unit