Pioneer MJ-D508 - Manual (Page 7)

Hints on Installation
We want you to enjoy using the MJ-D508 for years to conne, so please bear in nnind the following points when choosing a
suitable location for it:
DO.. PONT.
Use in a wejhventilated room.
Place on a solid, flat, level surface, such as a table, shelf
or stereo rack.
Avoiding condensation
problems
Condensation may form inside the recorder
if it is brought into a warm room from
outside, or if the temperature of the room
rises quickly. Although the condensation
won't damage the recorder, it may tempo­
rarily impair its performance. For this reason
you should leave it to adjust to the warmer
temperature for about an hour before
switching on and using.
❖ Use in a place exposed to high temperatures or
humidity, including near radiators and other heat­
generating appliances.
❖ Place on a window sill or other place where the
recorder will be exposed to direct sunlight.
❖ Use in an excessively dusty or damp environment.
❖ Place directly on top of an amplifier, or other component
in your stereo system that becomes hot in use.
❖ Use near a television or monitor as you may experience
interference—especially if the television uses an indoor
antenna.
❖ Use in a kitchen or.other room where the recorder may
be exposed to smoke or steam.
❖ Place on an unstable surface, or one that is not large
enough to support all four of the unit's feet.
About Minidiscs
Minidisc, or MD as it's usually called, is an extremely flexible and convenient format on which you can both playback and record
high-quality digital audio. Because it's a disc, MD has many of the advantages of compact disc—you can jump directly to any
track on the disc, program the playing order, instantly skip over tracks you don't want to play or back to tracks you want to play
again, and so on. The really great thing about MD though is the flexibility it offers when recording. Things that were impossible
using analog cassette tape, such as reordering tracks, programming track names, and deleting sections or tracks without
leaving any gaps are all easily achieved if you're using MD. Minidiscs have other advantages over cassette tape; the recorder
automatically finds the next blank space to record on, and can tell you how much room there is left on a disc before you start
recording. W hen you delete something fromothe disc, the time available for recording is automatically updated.
If this is the first time you've used MD, please take a few minutes to read through this section of the manual. It gives
information on how to handle the discs properly, the different kinds of disc available, and some basic MD characteristics.
____ Different kinds of MD available
All MDs carry this mark:
Do not use any disc which
does not have this mark.
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There are both recordable and non-recordable (playback-
only) MDs. Commercially available music on MD generally
comes on discs which are playback only. The diagrams
below show the differences between the two types.
Playback-only MD
Disc has
shutter
, on one
side only.
Recordable MD
Disc has
^ shutters
on both
Disc
label
sides.
Handling MDs
The actual disc that contains the audio is quite delicate
and so is protected against dust, fingerprints and so on
by an outer cartridge. Don't force open the disc shutters
to expose the disc, and never touch the disc itself. Also,
do not attempt to disassemble the disc cartridge,
if the disc cartridge becomes dirty or stained, wipe clean
with a soft, dry cloth.
Disc
Shutter Cartridge