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Quick Setup
At this point, we urge you to read and understand this manual in its entirety. But if you
desire immediate action and have skill and/or past experience with tube hardware, fol-
low these steps.
1. Place the amp on a hard flat surface that will not impede airflow under the amplifier’s
chassis (carpeting or area rugs are NOT acceptable as hard surfaces).
2. Ensure the Power 1 is in Mute mode (these selector switches are on the rear of the
chassis). When disconnecting and connecting cables, placing the amplifier in Mute is an
excellent practice.
3. Tube bias was set at the factory prior to shipment. Tubes are also marked for their
corresponding socket location. Carefully inspect each and install appropriately. Check
Installing the Tubes
and Biasing of the Power Tubes (a must read) for further
clarification.
4. Replace the tube cover as described in the Unpacking section. If the tube cover is
not used, it is recommended that the tubes, namely the 6550C/KT88s are protected from
settling dust in NON-USE periods. Dust settling on the tubes can cause heat impairment
of the tubes.
5. Connect your preamplifier’s left and right balanced or single-ended outputs to the left
and right inputs of the amplifier.
6. Connect the speakers to the positive (+) red and negative (-) black output binding
post. Note: It is not recommended to operate any tube amplifier without
its speaker load connected
.
7. Select the input for use via the selector switch: XLR-Balanced, Single-Ended Non-
Inverting, Single-Ended Inverting.
8. Power up your system turning the power amplifier on last, ensuring that both “green”
LEDs are on (no Standby or Mute activation). Allow 5 minutes of warm up before
operation.
