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• Ultima 40 Active
CAUTION
Risk of injury/damage!
–
Lay the cables so that they do not pose a
tripping hazard.
Connecting the passive speaker
1. Lay the speaker cable from the active speaker to
the passive speaker. For this, use the enclosed
speaker cable
⑥
or an equivalent dual core speaker
cable.
2. A connector terminal with
four pole clamps is located
on the back side of the
passive speaker. You can
connect the speaker cable
⑥
directly here or using pin
plugs. Direct connection only
is described here.
The contact bridges between
the connector terminals must
not be removed; you can
connect the speaker cables
accordingly to the top or
bottom terminals.
The terminals are marked in red (+) and black (-).
NOTICE
Make sure the polarity is correct!
–
Connect each of the like coloured termi-
nals of your active and passive speaker
with one another; otherwise the sound
quality will suffer. To facilitate this, the
individual single wires of the speaker
cables are marked with different colours
or shapes.
3. Split the single wire down by
approx. 30 mm on both ends
and remove approx. 10 mm
of insulation each. Twist the
single wire so that no
strands are protruding.
4. Turn the connector terminal counterclockwise until
loose. Run the stripped cable end into the now
visible hole. Close the terminal by turning it coun-
ter-clockwise. The cable has now been clamped in
place.
Connecting
5. Connect the other end of the speaker
cable to the clamps
(16)
of the active
speaker in the exact same manner.
Subwoofer
You can connect an active subwoofer
to the SUB OUT jack
(18)
with an
RCA cable.
Use the SUB CROSSOVER
control
(17)
to adjust the crossover frequency of the
subwoofer. If you do not connect a subwoofer, leave
the SUB CROSSOVER control
(17)
in the “NO SUB”
position (see „Settings“ on page 14).
Inputs for source devices
Analogue source
You can connect a source device with
analogue sound (e.g. a CD player or
TV set) to the RCA jacks AUX IN
(20)
.
You will need a stereo connector cable with RCA plugs
for this. You can set the sensitivity for automatic
activation with the SENSITIVITY control
(19)
(see
„Automatic activation“ on page 12 and „Settings“
on page 14).
Digital source
You can connect the optical digital sound
output of a source device to the OPTICAL
jack
(10)
. You will need an optical cable
with a TOSLINK plug for this. Your source device
requires either an optical 3.5 mm plug or also a
TOSLINK plug.
TV set with HDMI ARC
TV sets with audio return channel (ARC)
play back the television audio via the
HDMI cable. If your TV supports this function, connect
it with the HDMI ARC connection
(9)
. You will need a
HDMI cable for this.
HDMI CEC
(customer electronic control) CEC-com-
patible devices will exchange control commands via
the HDMI connection. This way, the Ultima 40 Active
is switched on and to standby together with the TV
set and the volume is controlled via the TV set’s
remote control. Any change to the volume on the
Ultima 40 Active is also reported to the TV set.
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