Record the serial number, found on the back of the unit, in the spaces designated on the warranty card, and in the space provided below. Refer to the model and serial numbers whenever you call upon your Kenwood dealer for information or service on the product. Model KDC-X996/ KDC-BT952HD Serial number...
For functions that are not explained here, refer to the First step ............. 4 relevant Instruction manual which can be downloaded at http://manual.kenwood. Basic Operations ........5 com/edition/im350. To refer to Instruction manual, a PC loaded Playing Music with Microsoft®...
Kenwood dealer. settings when the When you purchase optional accessories, Reset button is check with your Kenwood dealer to make Connector pressed. sure that they can work with your model and in your area.
First step [MENU] [VOL] Exiting the Demonstration mode Turn the [VOL] knob to adjust the hour Turn off the Demonstration mode when and minute. you use the unit for the first time after To determine the item, press the [VOL] installation.
Basic Operations [SRC] [VOL] Rear view A A UX Auxiliary input USB Terminal Power Auxiliary input Turns the power on by pressing the A portable audio device can be [SRC] button. connected with a stereo mini-plug (3.5 Press the [SRC] button for at least 1 mm (1/8”) ø).
Playing Music (CD/USB/iPod/Pandora®) [MENU] [PRESET] [VOL] [DISP] [Release] [ 4 ] [ 38 ] [ ¢ ] USB Terminal [SRC] Playing a disc Selecting an Audio file folder Press the [Release] button and drop Press the [DISP] button for at least 1 open the faceplate.
Music Search Listening to Pandora® Internet You can search for the song you want to radio play. Connecting the iPhone to the USB terminal with the Pandora application Press the [MENU] button. running will switch the source Turn the [VOL] knob to select “Music”, automatically to start broadcasting from and then press the [VOL] knob.
Listening to HD Radio™ tuner/ SiriusXM™ Satellite Tuner [SRC] [MENU] [PRESET] [VOL] [ 4 ] [ ¢ ] Selecting a tuner source Station Preset Memory Press the [SRC] button to select “HD Press the [4] or [¢] button to select RADIO”...
Press the [SRC] button. the Bluetooth device. By operating the Bluetooth device, register the hands-free unit (pairing). Select “KENWOOD BT CD/R-6P1” from the list of connected units. Input the PIN code (“0000”) in the Bluetooth device. By operating the Bluetooth device, start hands-free connection.
Accessories Before Installation 2WARNING If you connect the ignition wire (red) and the battery wire (yellow) to the car chassis ..1 (ground), you may cause a short circuit, that in turn may start a fire. Always connect those wires to the power source running through the fuse box.
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tape or other similar materials. To prevent For Good Reception a short circuit, do not remove the caps on To assure good reception, note the the ends of the unconnected wires and following: terminals. Communicate with the cell-phone within Connect the speaker wires correctly to the the line-of-sight distance of 10 m (30 corresponding terminals.
Connecting Wires to Terminals ⁄ USB connector (0.8 m (2.7 ft)) Do not remove the cap when you do not use the USB cable. The To USB device connector will cause the unit to malfunction if it gets in touch with any metallic part of the vehicle.
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CONT power terminal for the booster amplifier of the film-type or short pole type antenna. (Max. 300mA, 12V) Brown (Mute control wire) To connect the Kenwood navigation system, consult your navigation manual. MUTE Orange / White (Dimmer control wire) To car light control switch...
Installing/Removing the unit non-Japanese cars Removing the hard rubber frame 1. Engage the catch pins on the removal tool and release the two locks on the upper part of frame. Lift up and pull the frame forward as shown in the figure. Catch Bend the tabs of the mounting sleeve Lock...
4S microphone on the place iPhone 4 shown above. iPhone 3GS iPhone 3G iPhone For information on the compatibility with Turn the microphone iPod/iPhone software, visit www.kenwood. toward the driver. com/cs/ce/ipod/. English | 15...
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Bluetooth SIG, Inc. and any use Cet équipement est conforme aux limites d’exposition aux rayonnements énoncées pour of such marks by JVC KENWOOD Corporation un environnement non contrôlé et respecte les is under license. Other trademarks and trade règles d’exposition aux fréquences radioélectriques...
Record the serial number, found on the back of the unit, in the spaces designated on the warranty card, and in the space provided below. Refer to the model and serial numbers whenever you call upon your Kenwood dealer for information or service on the product.
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Registering Bluetooth Device (Pairing) File Search About Pandora® internet radio Display of Phone Number type (category) Registering PIN Code Play Mode About “KENWOOD Music Editor” Selecting the Bluetooth device You Wish to Display Settings USB Setting Connect About the Cell-Phone/ Bluetooth Audio player...
• When you purchase optional accessories, check with How to reset your unit • CDs that are not round cannot be used. your Kenwood dealer to make sure that they work If this unit or the connected unit fails to operate with your model and in your area. properly, press the Reset button. The unit returns to • Characters that conform to ISO 8859-1 can be...
A USB device or an iPod can be connected. display changes from “USB” to “iPod”. ⁄ Setting> (page 55). Volume You cannot set the item with the “ ” icon displayed. • Turning the [VOL] knob adjusts the sound volume. English KDC-X996/ KDC-BT952HD...
“COM***” Select iPod source control function. Songs “PRGM***” Enter Menu List mode • When “APP & iPod Mode”. is set to “ON”, this unit can Press the [MENU] button. control only the Pause and play, Selecting a song, and Fast Forward or Fast Backward of the Song functions. English KDC-X996/ KDC-BT952HD...
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Press the [DISP] button for at least 1 second. ⁄ • Characters that can be entered are alphabetical characters (A to Z), numerical characters(0 to 9), and “ * ”. • “ * ” indicates characters other than alphabetical and numerical characters. You cannot enter any more characters when entering “ * ” in the first character position. • If the first character string begins with an article “a”, “an”, or “the” in the Direct Search mode, it is searched for in defiance of the article. English KDC-X996/ KDC-BT952HD...
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After this step, you need to browse. See step 4 of <Selecting a song by browsing iPod> (page 9) select a song. Cancelling the Skip Search Press the [DISP] button for at least 1 second. ⁄ • Set the ratio with “Skip Search” in <iPod Setting> (page 10). English KDC-X996/ KDC-BT952HD...
Select Pandora source Select the “PANDORA” display. Enter Menu List mode ✍ SRC Select mode 2: Press the [SRC] button and Press the [MENU] button. then turn the [VOL] knob. To determine the selected source, press the [VOL] knob. English KDC-X996/ KDC-BT952HD...
When set to “ON”, plays the intro of the music in • This operation is effective only for the files registered in • No sound is output while playing audio file. desired item is displayed. the folder successively. the database created with KENWOOD Music Editor. “ON”/ “OFF” Pause and Play Select “Music”. “Folder Random” When set to “ON”, plays the music in the folder...
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After this step, see step 4 of <File Search> (page 17) to select a song. Cancelling the Skip Search Press the [DISP] button for at least 1 second. ⁄ • This operation is effective only for the files registered in the database created with KENWOOD Music Editor. • Set the ratio with “Skip Search” in <USB Setting> (page 18). English KDC-X996/ KDC-BT952HD...
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: Factory setting) Press the [DISP] button for at least 1 second. ⁄ Make a setting Press the [VOL] knob. • This operation can be performed only for the Audio file. Exit Play Mode Song Select Press the [MENU] button. Press the [4] or [¢] button. English KDC-X996/ KDC-BT952HD...
Preset number 6. (FM/ AM/ Mixed) “-18” Preset number 18. (FM) iTunes® Tagging provides you the opportunity to ■ ■ discover a wide range of content and the means to “tag” that content for later review and purchase from the iTunes® Store. English KDC-X996/ KDC-BT952HD...
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• Select “ON” for “Tagging” as mentioned in <HD Radio™ Press the [4] or [¢] button. Setting> (page 24) when using this function. • The memory usage can be checked by selecting the “TAG Memory” setting mentioned in <HD Radio™ Setting> (page 24). English KDC-X996/ KDC-BT952HD...
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(pairing). Select for the first time. ✍ To register a new Bluetooth device, select “KENWOOD BT CD/R-6P1” from the list of found – “(Bluetooth device name)”: When a Bluetooth “Device Search”, then go to <When registering a units.
Bluetooth disconnection. Operate the main unit of the audio player to connect Bluetooth. • Two audio devices can be connected simultaneously. • Speakers from which audio is output change depending on the Bluetooth setting “Bluetooth HF/Audio”. The default is Front. Refer to <Bluetooth Setting> (page English KDC-X996/ KDC-BT952HD...
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Operate Press the [VOL] knob. your cell-phone to return to the hands-free talk mode. ⁄ Adjusting the Voice Volume during a Call Turn the [VOL] knob. • You need to register the preset dial number. Refer to <Registering to the Preset Dial Number List> (page 34). English KDC-X996/ KDC-BT952HD...
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The category items in the Phone Book are displayed • P ress the [DIRECT] button on the remote as follows: controller. ⁄ Display Information “GENERAL” / “ ” General • You can input max 32 digits. “HOME” / “ ” Home “OFFICE” / “ ” Office “MOBILE” / “ ” Mobile “OTHER” / “ ” Other English KDC-X996/ KDC-BT952HD...
“DISP N/P” Switches the panel display between positive or negative. “POSI1”/ “POSI2”/ “NEGA1”/ “NEGA2” “Text Scroll” Specifies whether the text is scrolled automatically. “Auto”/ “Once”/ “OFF” “BT DVC Status” You can display the connection status. Cell-phone/ BT Audio English KDC-X996/ KDC-BT952HD...
Press the [MENU] button for at least 1 second, Exit Menu List mode Blank (“Blank”) Play time (“P-Time”) • If the selected display item does not have any information, and then press it again briefly. Press the [MENU] button for at least 1 second, alternative information is displayed. and then press it again briefly. English KDC-X996/ KDC-BT952HD...
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3. Turn the [VOL] knob to adjust color (Range: 0 – 9), and then press the [VOL] knob. 4. Press the [MENU] button. Exit the detail color adjustment mode. Exit Menu List mode Press the [MENU] button for at least 1 second, and then press it again briefly. English KDC-X996/ KDC-BT952HD...
CD when playing disc. “Settings 2”: Forces playing as music CD. “Built in AMP” Selecting “OFF” turns off the built-in amplifier. Turning off the built-in amplifier improves the quality of the sound from Preout. “OFF”/ “ON” English KDC-X996/ KDC-BT952HD...
: Factory setting) - Manual Equalizer Control (page 47). Select a source other than “STANDBY”. Function of KDC-X996 “Pro Setup” This setting cannot be made when “2 Zone” (Dual Zone ✍ SRC Select mode 2: Press the [SRC] button and “Bypass”: Disables the DSP function.
Enter Manual Equalizer Control mode Turn the [VOL] knob and press it when the desired item is displayed. Select “Manual Equalizer”. Select the setting item to adjust Turn the [VOL] knob and press it when the desired item is displayed. English KDC-X996/ KDC-BT952HD...
0, -1, -2, -3, -4, -5, -6, -7, -8 dB Set the value Enter Audio Control mode : Factory setting) Press the [VOL] button. * Function of KDC-X996 Press the [VOL] knob. Exit Audio Control mode Select the source Enter Speaker setting mode Press the [MENU] button for at least 1 second.
Exit Audio Control mode the right and left positions to the center of the Press the [MENU] button for at least 1 second. vehicle interior. 2 Measure the distances from the reference point to the speakers. English KDC-X996/ KDC-BT952HD...
When you press the Reset, all the sources will be the setting value which is registered. • Preset number “1” and “2”: The memory cannot be erased by the Reset button. • This function cannot be registered when the iPod Equalizer set in <Preset Equalizer curve Select> (page 46). English KDC-X996/ KDC-BT952HD...
<Downloading the SMS> (page 61). “SMS Reply” Select a method to reply to the received SMS. Refer to <SMS reply setting> (page 62). “SMS Message” Create an original message. Refer to <Creating an original message> (page 63). English KDC-X996/ KDC-BT952HD...
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Turn the [VOL] knob and press it when the ⁄ By operating the Bluetooth device, register the Code Edit”. desired item is displayed. hands-free unit (pairing). Select “KENWOOD BT • This unit allows up to eight digits to be input for a PIN The current setting of PIN code is displayed. Cell-phone CD/R-6P1” from the list of connected units.
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SMS are also deleted. free connection. To clear the downloading completion message Press any button. ⁄ • Up to 500 phone numbers can be registered for each registered cell-phone. • Up to 32 digits can be registered for each phone number along with up to 50* characters representing a name. (* 50: Number of alphabetic alphabetical characters. Fewer characters can be input depending on the type of characters.) • To cancel downloading of the phone book data, operate the cell-phone. English KDC-X996/ KDC-BT952HD...
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• The unopened message is displayed at the beginning • The already-read and unread short messages can be of the list. Other messages are displayed in the order of respectively downloaded up to 149. reception. • The SMS that has arrived when the cell-phone is not linked with Bluetooth cannot be displayed. Download the SMS. • The short message cannot be displayed during downloading the SMS. English KDC-X996/ KDC-BT952HD...
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[ ] button. ¢ To switch between letter types, press the [DIRECT] button. After entering all letters, pressing the [ ] button allows you to preview the message. Pressing the [ ] button again determines the message. English KDC-X996/ KDC-BT952HD...
Displays the tag memory usage of the HD The “Preset list”, “Mixed preset list”, and normal Radio receiver and the SiriusXM tuner. Up to 50 tags can be registered to this unit. display are displayed in order each time you press this button. English KDC-X996/ KDC-BT952HD...
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Canceling the Content alert mode [VOL] knob. Press the [MENU] button. “*” is indicated for the selected item name. Exit Menu List mode Press the [MENU] button for at least 1 second, and then press it again briefly. English KDC-X996/ KDC-BT952HD...
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⁄ • If a channel for which Parental Lock is turned on is selected, a passcode input screen appears. Programs on the selected channel can be received only when the input passcode is correct. English KDC-X996/ KDC-BT952HD...
• If a Mature channel is selected with the Mature setting turned on, the passcode input screen appears. Programs on the selected channel can be received only when the passcode is correct. English KDC-X996/ KDC-BT952HD...
[1], [ENT] to excessive heat such sunshine, fire or the like. [6], [ENT] • Keep battery out of reach of children and in [1], [0], [ENT] original package until ready to use. Dispose of used batteries promptly. If swallowed, contact a [1], [8], [ENT] physician immediately. English KDC-X996/ KDC-BT952HD...
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• Normal playback is not guaranteed when a cable • Playable disc media • iPod touch (4th generation) • iPod touch (3rd generation) • When you use the audio file with database • iPod touch (2nd generation) • iPod touch (1st generation) other than the USB compatible cable is used. CD-R/RW/ROM information added by the “KENWOOD Music Editor • iPod classic • iPod with video Connecting a cable whose total length is longer Light ver1.1”, you can search a file by title, album or • Playable disc file format • iPod nano (6th generation) • iPod nano (5th generation) than 4 m can result in abnormal playback.
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Hong Kong +8:00 Vancouver –8:00 technician for help. Islamabad +5:00 Vienna +1:00 Istanbul +2:00 Warsaw +1:00 • Contains Transmitter Module Jakarta +7:00 Yangon +6:30 FCC ID : RKXFC6000S Jerusalem +2:00 Zagreb +1:00 • Contains Transmitter Module Johannesburg +2:00 Zurich +1:00 IC : 5119A-FC6000S Kabul +4:30 (GMT) English KDC-X996/ KDC-BT952HD...
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Research In Motion Limited and are registered and/or chassis of the vehicle and the protection function may used in the U.S. and countries around the world. Used have been activated. Therefore, the speaker wire should be under license from Research In Motion Limited. checked. English KDC-X996/ KDC-BT952HD...
ANT. CONT amplifier of the film-type or short pole type antenna. (Max. 300mA, 12V) 8 mm Brown (Mute control wire) MAX. To connect the Kenwood navigation system, consult your navigation MAX. manual. MUTE ø5mm ø5mm Orange / White (Dimmer control wire) Accessory3...for Nissan car...
The operation check sound (beep sound) does not cell-phone. sound. The “Call Beep” of <Bluetooth Setting> (page The preout jack is being used. is set ON. The Touch Sensor Tone cannot be output from the preout jack. English KDC-X996/ KDC-BT952HD...
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Memory Pandora Error 04: The speaker wire has a short-circuit or is connected. The number of registerable stations has been touches the chassis of the vehicle, and then exceeded. the protection function is activated. English KDC-X996/ KDC-BT952HD...