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Unpacking Your P 5 & Placement Guidelines
Unpacking Your P 5
Carefully remove your P 5 from its shipping carton and locate the enclosed accessories:
• AC power cord
• Two trigger wires, one with mono 3.5 mm mini plugs, one with a mono 2.5mm sub-mini plug
and a mono 3.5mm mini plug
• Remote Control with AAA batteries
• USB A to USB B cable for music playback from a computer
• Stereo cable with stereo 3.5mm mini plugs for using the front panel AUX input
While you are unpacking your P 5, inspect it thoroughly for possible shipping damage and tell
your Parasound dealer immediately if you find any evidence of shipping damage. This would be a
good time to make a copy of your sales receipt to store with the P 5’s original packing.
Note:
Please save and store both the inner and outer cartons and, most especially, the foam
packing inserts to protect the P 5 if you have to move it or ship it. You may wish to flatten the
cardboard cartons to save room in storage after cutting the taped seams on the bottom flaps.
Placement Guidelines
The P 5 will be easier to use and will last longer if you follow these simple guidelines:
• Use input and output cables that are long enough to leave some slack; that will enable you to
pull the P 5 out of a cabinet to check or to change connections without inadvertently
disconnecting cables.
• Place your P 5 where you can route input and output signal cables as far as possible from any
AC cords.
• Where signal cables must cross AC cords they should do so only at a 90° right angle.
Ventilation Requirements
• Always position the P 5 horizontally.
• The P 5 should never be stacked above a power amplifier.
• The P 5 should not be placed in a completely enclosed cabinet.
AC Mains Voltage
The P 5 will operate on AC mains voltage of 100V-240V. There is no need for any fuse or wiring
changes to switch between 115V and 230V operation.
Rack Mounting your P 5
With its four feet removed, the P 5’s front panel height occupies two rack spaces: 3.5” or 88.2 mm.
(A single standard rack space occupies 1.75” vertical space.) For mounting in a standard 19”
equipment rack, you must use the Parasound HRA 2 rack mount kit (purchased separately). The
HRA 2 kit includes four bolts and eight plastic washers with raised “shoulders.” Slide one washer
onto each mounting bolt with its raised shoulder pointing toward the panel hole. Insert the bolt
through the hole and slide the other washer on the bolt with its raised shoulder facing the rear side
of the panel. The washers will sandwich the P 5 panel and the four mounting bolts to prevent
metal-to-metal contact between the P 5 chassis, the equipment rack, and the other components
mounted in the rack.
Warning:
Do not put the screws for the feet back into the bottom of the P 5 without the feet. Doing
so could cause the screws to touch electrical components and cause a short circuit.
