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Warranty 
Please check with the factory authorized distributor in the country where you are 
purchasing this product for specific warranty information. 
 
All Pass Laboratories products purchased new from an authorized Pass 
Laboratories dealer in North America are covered by a transferable, limited 3-year 
warranty. This warranty includes all parts and labor charges incurred at the factory 
or factory specified repair facility, exclusive of any subsequent or consequential 
damages. Damage due to physical abuse is specifically excluded under this 
warranty. 
 
For this warranty to apply the customer is responsible for returning the product 
unmodified to the factory within the specified warranty period.   SPECIFIED 
WARRANTY PERIOD COMMENCES UPON THE PRODUCT’s FACTORY SHIP 
DATE.  
  
 
The customer assumes all responsibility for shipping and insurance to and from the 
factory or a factory specified repair facility. The conditions and stipulations of this 
Pass Laboratories warranty only applies to units originally sold new through an 
authorized dealer. 
 
Warranty on Authorized Dealer Refurbished product is 1 year and does not cover 
cosmetic condition of the product. 
 
Warranty on factory repair is 60 days and covers only the scope of the original 
repair. 
 
Non-North America customers should consult with their original Pass Labs dealer or 
distributor for warranty repair instruction prior to contacting the factory or shipping 
product to the factory for repair.  
 
Non-North American product must be returned to the country of origin for warrantee 
service.  Foreign distributors are only required to offer warranty service on Pass 
Laboratories product that they have imported, verifiable by serial number. 
 
Please note: Conditions of warranty service and customer rights for product 
purchased outside the United States may vary depending upon the distributor and 
local laws. Please check with your local distributor for specific rights and details. 
 
Any modifications to Pass Laboratories products that have not received written 
factory approval nullify all claims and void all provisions of the warranty and liability 
by the maker or authorized distributor. Should a modified product be returned to the 
factory for repair the owner will be required to pay all necessary charges for the 
repair in addition to those charges required to return the product to it ’s original 
configuration. 
 
In the case of safety issues, no product shall be returned to the customer without 
those safety issues being corrected to the most recent accepted standards.  
 

Summary of Contents for XP-30

Page 1: ...XP 30 Owner s Manual Rev 0 Oct 3 2011 ...

Page 2: ...We want you to anticipate listening to your entire record collection again and again As part of the process in developing the XP 30 we began by uniformly upgrading the playback systems of our listening group We do not do AB or ABX testing our people live with prototypes as long as they like in their own system and only one component gets changed at a time This allows a close duplication of our cus...

Page 3: ...ange of 100 dB in precise 1 dB steps Both outputs of each channel are offered as single ended and balanced outputs having the same gain and impedance and both may be used simultaneously with no degradation There are five 5 regular inputs a special home theater bypass input and tape input for those needing any side loops for recording or signal processing The control chassis also supports a mono fu...

Page 4: ...wider bandwidth than its predecessor and also features a dramatically higher input impedance This improved version of our symmetric topology sounds so exquisite that that it has also been adopted in the new Dual Chassis Amplifier prototypes Pass Labs has made large purchases of discontinued Toshiba Jfets and Mosfets to support production of this new gain stage for the next ten years Each of these ...

Page 5: ...ber that we track all hardware and software details and history of an individual product unit Power Connection As with all audio electronics the power cable should be the last thing attached and the first one removed any time you hook up or remove equipment from the signal chain First The preamplifier s voltage and current ratings are indicated by affixed tag on the rear of the preamplifier s powe...

Page 6: ...ut a little is helpful On the rear of each control chassis are two identical DIN 25 sockets in parallel with one another You may connect either socket to the control chassis as previously indicated they are identical The second socket provides daisy chain capability for additional gain channels The DIN 25 connecting cables only communicate power and control commands to the gain stages At no time d...

Page 7: ... home theater Pass thru command is simply a software setting that selects input 6 and sets the gain to 0 dB with a minimum of keystrokes The keystroke shortcut selects input 6 and slowly advances the volume control to step 89 starting from 0 The slow advance of level is intentional 0dB step 89 is appropriate for a home theater processor it is however dangerously high for most source components As ...

Page 8: ...tion is selected only from the front panel it is not available from the hand remote When mono is selected rather than creating a true mono signal it creates a frequency dependent blend of signal from two chassis The blend has been chosen such that it minimizes noise while maximizing information transfer The two blended gain chassis are joined to one another by a special XLR cable The blend functio...

Page 9: ...y safety rated by the necessary local authority Power Cord Protection Power supply cords should be routed so that they are not likely to be walked on abraded or pinched by items placed on or against them paying particular attention to cords where they enter plugs or exit from a device Never under any circumstance insert a cut or damaged power cord into a mains power socket Power and Signal Cables ...

Page 10: ... total 60 ohm per phase Slave balanced 200 ohms total 100 ohm per phase Main RCA 120 ohm Slave RCA 120 ohm Input impedance 42 k Ohm CMRR typical 65 dB 1KHz Crosstalk broadband typical 100 dB 1KHz Signal to Noise Ratio 110 dB Ref 5V Residual Noise 20 Hz 20 kHz 20 uV un weighted max Power Consumption 45 watts as two channel 15 watts additional per additional channel Dimensions chassis 17 W x 12 D x ...

Page 11: ...nty on factory repair is 60 days and covers only the scope of the original repair Non North America customers should consult with their original Pass Labs dealer or distributor for warranty repair instruction prior to contacting the factory or shipping product to the factory for repair Non North American product must be returned to the country of origin for warrantee service Foreign distributors a...

Page 12: ...cloned product Pass Laboratories does not offer products in voltages intended for international markets either to authorized Pass Labs dealers or to third parties located in the United States or Canada For more information please contact Pass Laboratories Inc 2011 Pass Laboratories Inc Pass PASS Pass Labs Pass Laboratories Supersymmetery Aleph and Zen are all registered trademarks of Pass Laborato...

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