JBL Simply Cinema ESC 360 Simple Setup Manual

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ESC 360

Simple
setup guide

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Declaration of Conformity

We, JBL Europe A/S

Kongevejen 194B
DK-3460 Birkerød
DENMARK

declare in own responsibility, that the products described

in this owner's manual are in compliance with technical

standards:

EN 55 013/6.1990

EN 55 020/6.1988

EN 55 022/6.1993

EN 60 065/1994

EN 60 555-2-3/1987/88

We, JBL Europe

2, route de Tours
72500 Château-du-Loir
FRANCE

Luc E. Godard

JBL Europe

FRANCE 07/02

JBL Consumer Products
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International: 2, route de Tours, 72500 Château-du-Loir, France
www.jbl.com

©2002 JBL, Incorporated. JBL and Simply Cinema are
registered trademarks of JBL, Incorporated.
*Trademarks of Dolby Laboratories.

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COVER (OR BACK). NO USER-SERVICEABLE PARTS INSIDE. REFER

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WARNING:

TO REDUCE THE RISK OF FIRE OR ELECTRIC SHOCK,

DO NOT EXPOSE THIS APPLIANCE TO RAIN OR MOISTURE.

Handle the Power Cord Gently

• To disconnect the plug from the AC outlet, pull on the plug itself,
not on the cord. Pulling the cord may break the wire.

• Disconnect the plug from the AC outlet whenever the unit is to be
left unused for an extended period of time.

• Do not place furniture or other heavy objects on the cord, and
avoid dropping heavy objects on it. Also, do not make a knot
in the cord; this can damage it and cause a fire hazard.

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symbol, within an equalateral triangle,

is intended to alert the user to the
presence of uninsulated “dangerous voltage”
within the product’s enclosure that may be of
sufficient magnitude to constitute a risk of
electric shock to persons.

The exclamation point within an
equilateral triangle is intended to

alert the user to the presence of
important operating and maintenance
(servicing) instructions in the literature
accompanying the appliance.

CAUTION

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The ESC 360 offers two unique
user-convenience features:
Automatic Turn-On/Shut-Down
and Automatic Digital-Input
Selection.

The Automatic Turn-On feature
will turn the ESC 360 on as
soon as a source connected to
its digital inputs (such as DVD,
CD player with digital output,
or any other device featuring a
coaxial or optical digital out­put) is switched on, or as soon
as the unit connected to its
last-used analog input starts
outputting sound.

When using digital inputs, the
Automatic Turn-On can be
activated by turning on either
one of the connected digital
sources such as a DVD player
or a CD player with digital out­put. When using analog inputs
(TV or AUX), Automatic Turn­On is available only for the
device that was last listened
to before the ESC 360 shut
down. In order to listen to the
other device, the ESC 360
input needs to be manually
selected by using the Input
button on the product and on
the remote, which, in turn,
disables the Automatic Digital­Input Selector until the ESC
360 is shut down.

The Automatic Turn-Off shuts
the unit down five minutes
after all sources connected to
its digital inputs are powered
down and the device connect­ed to its selected analog input
stops playing.

The Automatic Digital-Input
Selector automatically selects
the source connected to its
digital inputs when that
source is powered on. Upon
power down of this digital
unit, if no other source is on,
the ESC 360 will switch itself
off after five minutes. If the
analog source that was select­ed prior to the digital source
turning on is still playing, the
ESC 360 will switch back to
that other source. Once a
digital source is powered on
and selected as an input, turn­ing on a device connected to
the other digital input will not
switch the input until the
selected digital device is first
powered off.

These two features can only be
used if the customer does not
manually turn the ESC 360 on
or off, and does not manually
select an input source. Once
either of these selections is
made manually, the automatic
features are disabled as fol­lows:

1. If the ESC 360 is turned off
manually, it will not turn back
on automatically for at least
five minutes. During these five
minutes, it can be turned on
either from the front panel or
via the remote control.

2. Once an input source is
selected manually, the Auto­matic Source-Selection feature
will remain disabled until the
ESC 360 shuts down.

3. Once any one of the two
devices connected to the ESC
360 digital inputs is powered
on and its input is selected by
the ESC 360, the device con­nected to the other digital
input of the ESC 360 cannot be
automatically selected until
the already selected digital
device is powered down.

Important Note

Automatic On/Off and Automatic Digital-Input Selection

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• Complete, self-powered DTS,
Dolby* Digital surround
processor with four satellite
speakers, a center channel
loudspeaker, subwoofer,
remote control, and all
amplification built-in.
(Just Add TV!)

• Dolby Digital, DTS, Dolby Pro
Logic*, including Phantom
and 3-Stereo, and Stereo
listening modes.

• Automatic Turn-On and Turn­Off.

• Automatic Source Switching
for the digital inputs.

• Two digital (one optical and
one coaxial) inputs and two
analog inputs.

• 2-Way video-shielded micro­satellites with titanium-lam­inate tweeters and common
voicing for all five channels,
and a 6.5", long-throw,
floor-firing subwoofer.

• Late Night compression for
nighttime listening without
unexpected and objection­ably loud passages.

• All amplification and con­trols are mounted in the sub­woofer, eliminating the need
for a separate control unit.

• Remote controllable via out­board remote eye that can
be mounted with the center
channel or separately, so
that the subwoofer can be
hidden away.

Features

4 satellites and a center chan­nel loudspeaker.
Wall-mount brackets.

“Smart” powered
subwoofer/controller.

Included

JBL”error-free“ speaker cables.

Foot for horizontal placement
of center speaker. Versatile
remote sensor and double­sided tape provided.

Remote control.

Bass

Treble

Delay Level

0 dB Test

Adjustment

Late Night

Power

Mute

Surround

Mode

Input

–

+

–

+

–

+

Volume

Digital coax input cable and
analog RCA input cable.

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About Dolby Digital

The ESC 360 features Dolby
Digital (also unofficially known
as AC-3) multichannel signal
processing, a system devel­oped by Dolby Laboratories.

Dolby Digital, unlike
“matrixed” systems (such as
Dolby Pro Logic) that derive
multichannel sound from a
two-channel source, is capable
of delivering information for
one subwoofer and five full­range channels as discrete and
individual channels in digital
AC-3 data format from sources

such as a DVD player. The
result is clear and accurate
digital sound to each speaker,
along with availability of
stereo-surround effects (Dolby
Pro Logic features mono sur­rounds).

Dolby Digital is capable of
delivering several different for­mats of surround sound, the
most robust one being the 5.1­channel mode, which provides
separate signals for five satel­lite speakers as well as for a
subwoofer. The ESC 360

features a “5.1-Ch” indicator
that illuminates when a Dolby
Digital 5.1-channel encoded
signal is present. Dolby Digital
can also provide other AC-3
digital multichannel signals, as
well as 2-channel signals,
which can be decoded via
Dolby Pro Logic processing
into multichannel surround
sound.

About DTS

DIGITAL SURROUND

THE FINEST 5 .1 SURROUND
SOUND TECHNOLOGY ON THE
MARKET TODAY!
An amazing new technology
for surround-sound entertain­ment, DTS Digital Surround is
an encode/decode system that
delivers six channels (5.1) of
master-quality, 20-bit audio.

In the encoding process, the
DTS algorithm encrypts six
channels of 20-bit digital
audio imformation in the space
previously allotted for only
two channels of 16-bit linear
PCM. Then during playback,
the DTS decoder reconstructs
the original six channels of 20­bit digital audio.

Each of these six channels is
audibly superior to the 16-bit
linear PCM audio found on
conventional compact discs.

• Wall-mount brackets.

• Floor stands available sepa­rately for the satellites.

• Credit-card-type, full­function remote control.

• JBL “error-free” speaker
cables simplify connection
and eliminate possibility of
out-of-phase wiring.

• Center foot for horizontal
placement of the center
channel.