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4. O
PERATIONS
Stand-By mode is accessible from the remote control. It allows reducing dramatically the
energy consumption of the appliance. Once awoken (disabling the stand-by mode), the
preamplifier will provide its optimum musical quality after only 15 minutes, whereas the first
operation will require more than 4 hours of warm-up (as will require any main switch-on) to
reach this same level.
VP100
Reference
offers 10 inputs (4 unbalanced “RCA”, and 4 balanced “XLR”, 1 Phono MM,
1 Phono MC). At start-up, it initializes itself to the RCA1 input and the -66 db volume level
(max attenuation). Using the remote control, it is then possible to toggle the input or to
adjust the volume.
Mute function from remote control permits to lower instantly the volume to its minimum
(being -90 dB). A new stroke on the Mute key will bring the volume level back to its
previous state.
Display function from the remote control permits to switch the digital display on or off.
Set-up is accessed through a light push on the “Volume” knob. It allows to tune some
parameters at initial set-up of your preamplifier (or Hi-Fi system), as the channel balance
between left & right, crossover frequency, the accentuation (bass boost) and the phase.
First option concerns the pink noise, which is used to emit a neutral noise on all speakers.
This allows to finely tuning the channel balance without requiring the use of one of the 8
external sources. Pink noise is activated by entering the setup. After enabling it, please
adjust the generated volume level using the remote control or the front volume knob.
The following step of the set-up proposes the balance between the different channels: 2 in
stereo mode (standard). The inter-channels balance is limited to a 9dB maximum.
The last option of the set-up allows teaching new remote control codes to the preamplifier.
This function is generally let unused.
Push lightly on “Selection” knob to exit the set-up program. All parameters are then stored
within the preamplifier.