Grimm Audio LS1, User Manual

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Hardware Remote
Hardware Remote
As we know already the LS1 is more than a speaker, it is actually a complete playback system
with amplifiers, converters, volume control and source selection.
These are the sources that you can connect to it:
1) Computer (Mac or PC) connected via USB
2) Analog Input
(for any analog source, this can e.g. be a phono stage, a tuner or even a tape machine)
3) Digital Input 1
(directly on one of the speakers)
via AES/EBU or S/PDIF
(these can e.g. be a CD-
transport or a streaming client)
4) Digital Input 2 + 3
(located on the back of the hardware remote)
via AES/EBU or S/PDIF
This means you can have all possible kinds of audio sources permanently connected. Switching
between the sources can be done via the remote software (-> see next chapter) or via the
hardware remote that is included in the hi-fi package.
This is not only convenient, it completely eliminates the need for a classic hifi-preamp in the
system, which is a wonderful thing!
We all know that sometimes „classical“ hifi components don ́t match perfectly, impedance
matching can be wrong, people try all sorts of cables and combine preamps, amplifiers and
speakers of different brands searching for „the magic combination“.
In the LS1 we do the opposite, the signal path can be as short and pure as possible, thus all
coloration is minimized.
What´s left in the end is what you put into the system: the music.
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