
CBT36K Assembly Manual
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13.
STARTING UP YOUR SYSTEM
13.1. T
URN ON THE
S
YSTEM
:
Turn on everything except for the amplifiers. After the crossover, preamps, CD players etc. are powered
on and stabilized, and with the volume set to its lowest setting, you can power up the amplifiers.
13.1.1. Listen to Low-Level Music and Make Sure Everything is Connected Properly:
Once all entries are complete, connect a signal source to the input of the crossover and the output of the
crossover to the amplifiers. Then connect speaker cables to the amplifier and to the CBT36 speaker
systems. Power up the amps and play music at a low level and listen with your head close to the tweeter
and midrange drivers and verify that the highs go to the tweeters and the lows go to the mid-bass drivers.
The MUTE buttons on the front of the crossover can be used to good advantage here to MUTE an output
channel you don’t want to listen to. First mute the tweeter channel and you only be listening to the mid-
bass drivers from 50 Hz to 1 kHz. They will sound muffled and dull if the crossover is working properly.
Now mute the mid-bass channel and un-mute the tweeters, they should sound bright and thin because
you are only listening to program material in the range of 1 kHz to 20 kHz.
IF THE MID-BASS AND TWEETERS ARE REVERSED, RETRACE THE WIRING AND
CORRECT THE PROBLEM BEFORE PROCEEDING.
13.1.2. System Break-in:
Once you are certain all connections are correct bring the volume up and let the system warm up a bit.
You are now ready to start listening to your system. New speakers have mechanical parts that need time
to settle in. We recommend that you keep music playing through the speakers to allow them to break-in. It
may take a couple of weeks for everything to stabilize.