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INITIAL POWER-ON
Once you have your H-6500 in place and all connections have been made to your
turntable and preamplifier, you are ready to turn on the power for your H-6500. Before
you power up the H-6500, though, be sure you have:
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turned the volume down or otherwise muted your preamplifier
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pressed the “muting” button switch on the left-hand side of the front panel of the
phono-stage labeled with “mute” and “operate” icons so the button is “down”
(operate) (see Figure 4).
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pressed the input selector button switches on the right-hand side of the front
panel of the phono-stage to the appropriate positions for the cartridge type: the
right-hand button selects either MC (button out) or MM (button in), and left-hand
button selects the input, “1” (button out) or “2” (button in) that you will use
initially (See Figure 4).
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if you are using a moving coil cartridge, set the MC transformer controls on the
top of the chassis to the factor that you will try initially
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checked that all your connections are snug
To turn on the H-6500, press in the button switch on the front of the power supply
marked with on and off icons (see Figure 3). Of course, the off position is the reverse,
pressing the button again so it is returns to the maximum raised position.
OPERATION
When the power supply is on, the light on its front panel will illuminate, and the light
below the words “ALLNIC H-6500” and the current meters on the front panel of the Allnic
Audio H-6500 phono-stage will illuminate (See Figure 4).
After a forty (40) second automatic protective “mute” period, the Allnic Audio H-6500
will be ready for operation.
To avoid surges to the speakers, it is best to switch between MM or MC input, or between
inputs 1 and 2 of either, only with the H-6500 in “mute” mode and with your preamplifier
volume down or otherwise muted.
From this point on, operation is straight-forward. All functions except for MC
transformers’ gain selection are controlled from the front panel (See Figure 4). Of course,
BE CAREFUL about differences in gain between your sources. Generally, DACs, digital
media players, and tuners will have greater gain than phono-stages. That means the
volume setting for listening to your turntable might be too high for listening to CDs, for
e.g.
