The stacking of these cores, the wire and interleaving are trade secrets, and you can
certain that Chinese built transformers which are so inefficient they have to be twice the
physical size to do half as much, can’t compete. You can relax in knowing you have
the best.
LOUDSPEAKERS / EARSPEAKERS
The SE34I.3 is designed to have it’s maximum power into 8 ohm speakers. That does
not rule out all 4 or 6 ohm speakers, or 12, and 16 ohm speakers. It simply means that
statistically it will work best with around 8 ohms. Since the only thing that happens
when you get a lot higher or lower than 8 ohms is the power output goes down, having
efficient speakers may make this completely a non-issue. You can not hurt the
amplifier by hooking up speakers that are more or less than 8 ohms. This includes
planar magnetic ear-speakers (headphones) which are too hard to drive with
conventional headphone amplifiers but may be as high as 30 or even 70 ohms. Most
of the time these work just fine and sound great with this amp.
We find that some speakers rated as low as 90dB 1w/1m get loud enough on this amp
to fill an average size room with a nice full sound. However, statistically 94dB or higher
is ideal.
POWER CORD / FUSE
Your amplifier has the highest quality fused IEC connector available. It is SUPERIOR to
the Gold Plated Chinese units that are rebranded and passed of as expensive
audiophile gear -at a ridiculous price. This is important because if you choose to use a
high grade audiophile power cord it makes no sense to plug it into a 50 cent IEC
connector, which btw is what is on MOST amplifiers today - even expensive ones.
The fuse is a 3 amp, 20mm glass fuse. You can use fast or slow blow type
replacements in the amp. It is located INSIDE the IEC connector. To access it, remove
the power cord and take a small screwdriver to pry the little door open. It will come
O W N E R S M A N U A L
Decware High Fidelity Engineering Co., East Peoria IL, USA www.decware.com
