User manual VINCENT SA-96

[. . . ] Dear Customer, we thank you for the confidence you prove in purchasing our product. It will match your high demands towards sound and manufacturing quality. Though it is understandable that you want to plug and play this product instantaneously, we encourage you to read this manual carefully before installation. It will help you in handling and operating this machine in your system and obtaining the best possible performance, even if it was installed by your dealer. [. . . ] the loudspeakers used must be suitable for this. You will recognise this by the double connection of the loudspeaker terminal whose bridges can be removed for operation in Bi-amping or Bi-wiring. Your specialist dealer will advise you of this on request. 3 mm jack can be plugged into the "PHONES" socket (8) on the front of the appliance. All headphones with an impedance of between 32 Ohm and 600 Ohm may be used. Unsuitable headphones with too low impedance may damage the amplifier or produce such unexpectedly loud volume that your hearing may be damaged. The volume should be reduced for safety reasons before a set of phones is connected. To avoid the necessity of switching them on and off before and after every use, many manufacturers have equipped their devices with what is known as "POWER CONTROL" circuit or "TRIGGER". This kind of remote-controlled standby circuit is used primarily for preamplifier and power amplifiers. To employ these functions, direct or indirect cable connections must be made between the preamplifier (or integrated amplifier) and all the devices which support this function. The "POWER CONTROL" function operates in such a way that each switching on or off of one device in the system (usually the preamplifier) automatically brings about the switching on or off of all the connected devices which support this function. Please keep in mind that all devices which respond to the power control are not disconnected from the mains network when switched off. For each connection between two devices one of those cables is needed. If the whole system is to be turned on and off with the SA-96 preamplifier, the cable connections for the power control described below must be made correctly. If you don't wish to use this function or if the other components do not support it, all you have to do is leave out these cable connections. The SA-96 has two output connections for the power control. Two HiFi components that are able to react to the power control signal can be connected directly to the preamplifier's power control outputs. If more than two devices, which can be controlled, are to be connected, then it is necessary, to make the power control connection between the preamplifier and these further devices through the outputs of the two devices which are connected directly. For that reason, every HiFi component that accepts power control signals is also equipped with a power control output. Thus, in theory it is possible to provide an infinite number of HiFi components with the power control signal. This approach, to loop a signal through a chain of components, is commonly referred to as "daisy chaining". Many devices which can be controlled by a switching signal (not preamplifiers or integrated amplifiers), have two terminals which do not differentiate between input and output. [. . . ] The filtering of the entire frequency range takes place in the circuitry of the loudspeakers. One cable is connected to the loudspeaker connector provided for the higher frequencies and the other to that provided for the lower frequencies. This doubles the cabling, but for many combinations of loudspeaker and amplifier this does improve the sound quality. Before reconfiguring to Bi-wiring, the metal bridges attached to the double connector of the loudspeaker in normal operation must be removed. [. . . ]