Unpacking and Assembly
1.
Place the box on a stable and level surface, preferably on the floor.
2.
Carefully open the packaging on the long side where it has been taped up, preferably using
a pocket knife or kitchen knife.
3.
Carefully remove the loudspeakers, together with their protective foam pads, from the box.
Make sure that you do not touch the drivers when removing and handling the loudspeakers
as this may cause irreparable damage to the drivers.
4.
Now remove the foam cover from the top and carefully pull down the foil and Place the
loudspeakers in their intended positions.
You can now start to optimally align your new STEP plus to the listening
position. You can find tips regarding this process in the following chapter
on “Setup
.
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Connecting the Loudspeakers
Your STEP plus loudspeakers are fitted with a modern connecting
terminal (the image on the right) that is acoustically decoupled from the
loudspeaker cabinet and contains extremely high-quality patented
nextgen™ connectors made by the specialist manufacturer
WBT. The
connectors have a unique mechanism (the torque indicator) that will help
you during the installation procedure.
1.
Please switch off all equipment in your Hifi system before
you begin to connect your loudspeakers.
2.
If you are using a loudspeaker cable with spade connectors, turn the screw clamps to the left
until you can easily slide the spades into the openings at the side. Push the spades into these
openings and turn the screw clamps to the right until you hear a clicking noise - this is the
torque indicator. Now turn the clamps until they are hand-tight, which will normally be the case
after a few more ‘clicks‘. After this point, you can indeed tighten the clamps even more, but this
will not improve the results. In the worst case scenario, further tightening the clamps may lead
to damage to the surface structure of the spade connectors. Attach the loudspeaker cable to the
connectors on the loudspeakers.
3.
When doing so, please make sure that you have the right polarity. As a rule, loudspeaker
cables
are accordingly labeled, either by a permanent marking on one of the two conductors of
the
cable by “+“ and “-“ markings on the cable ends.
4.
Now connect the cable to your amplifier and make sure that you have the right polarity here.
5.
The STEP`s connectors, which are shown in the image on the right, accept both spades
and
banana plugs. Loose cable strands oxidi
z
e easily and are not suitable for a permanently
high-quality listening experience.
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