Classe Audio SSP-800 owner manual

room equalization and speaker control

flexible GUI

video preview

refined circuit design

extensive listening tests

extraordinary longevity

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All home theater sound systems are affected by room characteristics. Sound reflections and sound absorption can create dramatic variations in the performance of your system, particularly in the lower frequencies. The SSP-800 features a system of filters which can correct many room effects and provide the best possible sound.

The front panel’s LCD touchscreen supports an extremely flexible and versatile graphical user interface (GUI) while maintaining a clean, uncluttered appearance. The SSP-800 provides a range of controls that might otherwise require dozens of buttons and knobs on the front panel. Despite this power and flexibility, it remains simple to operate in day-to-day use.

The SSP-800’s front panel touchscreen lets you view any selected video source in your system. The source’s resolution can be down-converted for the LCD panel, giving you total flexibility to view any video source regardless of its resolution.

Only the top performing audio components were designed into your SSP-800. The converter chips, passive components, op-amps, and analog power supply are all best-in-class parts. Furthermore, the PCB (printed circuit board), and pad material has been specifically chosen to provide the best performance. Even the routing of the traces is optimized to get the best performance out of the circuit. Every detail is tested, every possibility exhausted, until we are content with the results.

Our experience has shown that great measurements alone do not guarantee superb audio or video performance. For this reason, all Classé products are laboriously fine-tuned during the development process by carefully controlled usage tests. Every individual stage is evaluated and adjusted before the product is released for production. As in the case with measured performance, actual performance of every unit is verified as part of our production standard.

Because Classé has developed highly refined circuits over many years, we have vast experience in what works well over the long term. Using this knowledge base, along with quantitative results derived from highly accelerated life testing (H.A.L.T.) allows us to select only the most reliable parts. This attention to detail and design allows us to manufacture products which stand the ultimate test. Time.

Just as past Classé products have done for their owners, we are certain that your new Surround Sound Processor will give you many years of continuous enjoyment.