Your comments on the owners manual is multiplied ten fold ! It is hard for one to imagine that after coming out with the SD process they cannot write instructions that are more complete.
Technics people have written to Technics, complaining about the manual on the last three or four models.
Why they do not listen to loyal customers is beyond me and I assume all the other Technics owners.
I am glad to mentioned this problem and we must keep complaining until Technics wakes to the fact that they need to rewrite the manual for new customers as well as the old ones. Lloyd