User manual ROTEL RA-1210

[. . . ] Its full and natural sound reproduc tion offers you musical entertainment ap proaching that of live performances, We sincerely hope you will treasure this profes sional type component. In order to obtain the maximum use out of your equipment, we urge you to read the following pages of this Owner's Manual carefully. WARNING; To prevent fire or shock hazard, do not expose this appliance to rain or moisture. For safety sake keep in mind the fol lowing c;autions: , . [. . . ] If your turntable comes with RCA-type plugs on output cables, connect them cor rectly to corresponding RIGHT and LEFT jacks of PHONO inputs. If there is ground (earth) cable emerging from the turntable besides the output cables, connect it to the ground screw terminal marked GND or If your turntable comes with a DIN plug on output cable, simply plug in to the DIN socket marked PHON 0 1. NOTE: To avoid loss of high frequency response due to excessively long output cables, shielded cables not exceeding 10 feet (3 meters) in length should be used to connect your turntable. Usually, cables sup plied with your turntable are sufficient. Make sure your turntable comes with a regular magnetic cartridge. Connect the outputs of your stereo tuner to the LEFT and RIGHT TUNER input ter minals on the rear panel with shielded cables. If you have another tuner, connect it to AUX terminals. Two sets of AUX input terminals are pro vided for connection of equipment such as tape deck without recording facility (e. A facility for tape recorder is referred to as TAPE MONITOR and is used in conjunction with the monitor control on the front panel. It is also used when your tape recorder has a separate playback head (i. Your tape recorder can be a reel-ta-reel deck, a cassette recorder deck or a 8-track cartridge recorder deck_ If the tape recorder comes with RCA-t'{pe plugs, connect input cables to corresponding TAPE MONITOR jacks marked OUT and output cables to the jacks marked IN. BASS TURNOVER SWITCH - allows you to defeat the bass control by setting at OUT, or let you select two frequency ranges (so· Called roll-off curves) at low frequencies at which bass control will be effected. TREBLE TURNOVER SWITCH al lows you to defeat the treble control by set ting at OUT for a flat response, or let you select two frequency ranges at high frequen cies at which treble control will be effected. LOW FILTERS - allows you to reduce the low frequency response whenever you wish to minimize annoying record and tape rumbles, etc. "30Hz" is for normal cut, and "15Hz" is actually a subsonic filter which cuts out undersirable noise characteristics which may exist on subsonic frequencies. However, normally leave the switch OUT for optimum frquency reproduction. @) HIGH FILTER - allows you to reduce high frequency interference whenever you wish to clear annoying record scratches, tape hiss, FM background noise, etc. normally leave the switch OUT for optimum frequency reproduction. ~ MODE CONTROL "LEFT" to ope rate only the sound from the left channel com ing out from both speaker systems; "RIGHT" for the right channel only. "LEFT" and "RIGHT" positions allow you to test each channel or compare each other. "REVERSE" position allows you to change listening effect. "STEREO" and "L + R" positions depends upon program source stereophonic or monophonic. [. . . ] Whichever the function you have pushed ON, that is the program played by the amplifier. NOTE: it is not possible to push two or more switches together. These functions will not operate when the TAPE MONITOR control is not on "SOURCE" position. MIC JACK AND MIXING LEVEL CONTROL allows you to mix your voice or live sound with whatever source being played at the time. [. . . ]