Classe Audio SSP-300 owner manual Special Note for Subwoofer

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5Now you are ready to power up your new SSP-300 and its associated amplifiers.

Note that the initial power up takes approximately 90 seconds, during which time the blue LED on the standby button will flash.

After approximately 45 seconds the LCD screen will display “initializing, please wait….” Once this period is complete the LED light will remain on while the LCD screen goes into standby mode.

A simple touch of the LCD screen will wake up the SSP-300 from its standby mode. The LCD touchscreen will now display a blue screen titled “initializing” for a further 15 seconds.

6Connect the supplied calibration microphone to the MIC input on the rear of the SSP-300, and use the auto-calibrate function of the SSP-300 to finish your initial setup.

The auto-calibrate function of the SSP-300 can be found by touching the following on-screen “buttons” in the LCD display, in this order:

•Path: MENU/system setup/speakers/position 1/autocalibration

•touch auto levels (and wait for the autocalibration to finish)

•touch auto delays

Hold the microphone upright at arm’s length so that it is approximately where your head would be when seated at your preferred listening position, and pointed at the ceiling.

Pink noise (at a low level) will automatically begin from the left front speaker and rise slowly in volume. The SSP-300 generates this noise, listens through the microphone, then increases the signal level gradually until the Sound Pressure Level at the listening position is 75 dB. The SSP-300 will test every speaker in the same sequence as described above and set their levels to 75 dB.

SPECIAL NOTE FOR SUBWOOFER

We have observed that, depending on the acoustics of your listening space, the subwoofer distance auto-calibration may fail or return unreasonable results. If this happens try one of the following solutions: If the subwoofer level was very soft during the first pass of the auto-calibration process, increase it a bit to make the signal more audible. Try raising the crossover frequency of the subwoofer (in the Audio Setup menu) or turning the subwoofer filter off (which will make the selected crossover frequency irrelevant). If all these measures fail, you will have to enter the subwoofer distance manually through the Distance Setup menu.

Note: at this time you will only need to enter the manual level and distance values for the subwoofer. All other speaker values will remain accurate.

To optimize speaker setup we suggest entering all speaker levels and distances manually.