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©2012 Indy Audio Labs, LLC all rights reserved / Revision20130220
Document No. 1000571
LAST ON, FIRST OFF! – To avoid potential
loud pops and/or hum, always turn on the
amplifier last after other components such
as pre-amps and sources and turn off the
amplifier first when powering down.
Normal Operation
Observe these simple guidelines during normal operation:
Source Material:
Your Aragon amplifier will sound only
as good as the source material it is amplifying. We
recommend CD-quality or higher bitrate sources in order
to experience the full capabilities of your new amplifier.
You’ll probably find that MP3 or other lossy, compressed
(less than 256Kbps bitrate) audio sources lack the detail
and definition that your Aragon components are capable
of delivering.
Break In Period:
While we burn-in each unit at the fac-
tory before it is shipped, we recommend playing your
amplifier a minimum of 24 hours before performing any
critical listening.
When not in Use:
We do not recommend leaving the am-
plifier on continuously as a means of somehow improving
it’s long-term reliability or sonics. As with prior Aragon
designs, we’ve designed the Aragon series amplifiers
to come up to operating temperature in a short period
of time (typically less than 30 minutes) and have chosen
components that can handle temperatures well beyond
the intended operating conditions of the product.
You can minimize electric utilization and help preserve
our global environment by using the low-power standby
mode these amplifiers offer.
Aragon’s Proprietary Enhanced
Ethernet Control (E2C)
Enhanced Ethernet Control allows the user or installer
to quickly and easily control and monitor the status
of Aragon components over a home network. For the
Aragon series amplifiers, this capability provides useful
setup and diagnostics tools.
Setting up Enhanced Ethernet Control (E2C):
To enable
E2C, the amplifier must be connected directly to a net-
work router or switch. The green network activity LED on
the rear panel of the amplifier indicates the presence of a
network connection. After a few minutes connected to the
network, the amplifier network module will be initialized
and the amplifier will be controllable as a network device.
Any networked computer, smartphone or tablet con-
nected to the local network and running up-to-date web
browser software may be used to control and monitor
the amplifier. To access the control page of the amplifier,
the amplifier’s IP address must be typed in the browser
URL line:
Because most network routers default to allow DHCP
(service running on the router) to automatically assign
IP addresses to network devices, it may be necessary
first to discover the specific IP address assigned to the
amplifier by the network router. There are a few common
methods to accomplish this.
Manual Network Discovery:
Below are several methods
that can be used to discover an Aragon series amplifier
on a local network. The critical information for identifying
the Aragon component is that the Aragon series mac
address always is formatted with the first 3 pairs of digits
constant as:
MAC Address 00:03:75:XX:YY:ZZ
