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About Rotel
A family whose passionate interest in music led them to manufac-
ture high fidelity components of uncompromising quality founded
Rotel over 30 years ago. Through the years that passion has re-
mained undiminished and the family goal of providing exceptional
value for audiophiles and music lovers, regardless of their budget,
is shared by all Rotel employees.
The engineers work as a close team, listening to, and fine tuning
each new product until it reaches their exacting musical stan-
dards. They are free to choose components from around the
world in order to make that product the best they can. You are
likely to find capacitors from the United Kingdom and Germany,
semi conductors from Japan or the United States, while toroidal
power transformers are manufactured in Rotel’s own factory.
Rotel’s reputation for excellence has been earned through hun-
dreds of good reviews and awards from the most respected re-
viewers in the industry, who listen to music every day. Their
comments keep the company true to its goal – the pursuit of
equipment that is musical, reliable and affordable.
All of us at Rotel thank you for buying this product and hope it will
bring you many hours of enjoyment.
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Getting Started
Thank you for purchasing the Rotel RC-995 Stereo Control Ampli-
fier. When used in a high-quality music audio system, it will pro-
vide years of musical enjoyment.
The RC-995 is a full featured, high performance preamplifier. All
aspects of the design have been optimized to retain the full dy-
namic range and subtle nuances of your music. The RC-995 has a
highly regulated power supply incorporating a Rotel custom-de-
signed toroidal power transformer and custom-made slit foil ca-
pacitors. This low impedance power supply has ample power
reserves, which enables the RC-995 to easily reproduce the most
demanding audio signals. This type of design is more expensive to
manufacture, but it is better for the music.
The RC-995 has both XLR (balanced) and RCA cable main output
connections. The printed circuit boards (PCB) are designed with
Symmetrical Circuit Traces. This insures that the precise timing of
the music is maintained and faithfully recreated. The RC-995 cir-
cuitry uses metal film resistors and polystyrene or polypropylene
capacitors in important signal paths. All aspects of this design
have been examined with the final goal being faithful reproduction
of music.
STEREO CONTROL AMPLIFIER RC-995
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Contents
(circled numbers refer to illustration)
About Rotel __________________________________________ 6
Getting Started ______________________________________ 6
A Few Precautions
7
Placement
7
Cables
7
AC Power and Control ________________________________ 7
AC Power Input
17
7
Power/Standby Switch
2
and Power Indicator
1
7
Auxiliary Power Outputs
16
7
Input Signal Connections
10
and
11
__________________ 8
Phono Input Selector Switch
9
8
Phono Input Connection
10
8
Line Level Inputs
11
8
Recorder Connections
12
_____________________________ 8
Output Connections __________________________________ 8
Balanced Output Switch
14
8
RCA Outputs
13
8
Balanced XLR Outputs
15
8
Front Panel Controls __________________________________ 9
Volume Control
5
9
Balance Control
6
9
Listening Selector
8
9
Recording Selector
7
9
Phones Output
3
9
Remote Sensor
4
9
Troubleshooting ______________________________________ 9
Standby Power Indicator Is Not Lit
9
Fuse Replacement
9
No Sound
9
RR-949 Remote Control ______________________________ 10
Programming the RR-949
10
Device Selector Buttons
18
10
Power Button
19
10
Volume Buttons
20
10
Mute Button
21
10
Input Select Buttons
23
10
Numeric Buttons
22
10
Specifications _______________________________________ 41
