Arcam manual Getting started with your P1000, Introduction, Speaker Installation, Cables

Getting started with your P1000

Introduction

The P1000 multi-channel power amplifier is built to Arcam’s traditional high quality design and manufacturing standards. It is an extremely high-performance amplifier, offering up to 135W per channel. While obviously well-suited to multi-channel home cinema amplification, additionally it provides superb stereo performance with two-channel sources. The P1000 is an ideal partner for the Arcam DiVA AVP700 Pre-amp Processor.

Each of the amplifier modules within the P1000 is identical, so each channel of amplification has the same performance. The P1000 has input and output phono sockets for the signal being fed to each channel, which allows the signal to be passed on to additional power amplifiers, if required, to drive loudspeakers in other rooms or to bi-amplify any channels. If the P1000 is being used to drive a five- channel surround sound system, for example, then the spare two modules (‘L surround rear’ and ‘R surround rear’) could be used in conjunction with the main (‘L front’ and ‘R front’) modules to bi-amplify suitable front left and right speakers.

We anticipate that the P1000 will give you many years of home cinematic enjoyment.

Speaker Installation

The P1000 allows connection of up to seven loudspeakers. All speakers, with the exception of the subwoofer, should be arranged around your normal viewing/listening position (see diagram). The subwoofer can be placed almost anywhere and we recommend experimenting with it in various positions to obtain the best result.

Position your front left and right speakers to achieve a good stereo image for normal musical reproduction. If they are placed too close together there will be a lack of spaciousness. Alternatively if they are placed too far apart the stereo image will appear to have a large hole in the middle and will be presented in two halves.

The centre speaker allows for a more realistic reproduction of dialogue and centre sounds as well as wider and better imaging for stereo effects and background sounds for home cinema use. Do not compromise on the quality of your centre speaker as it carries all the dialogue for a home cinema system.

The surround left and right speakers reproduce the ambient sound and effects present in a multi-channel home cinema system.

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are used to add extra depth, a more spacious ambience and sound localisation.

A subwoofer will improve the bass performance from your system. It is useful for reproducing special cinema effects, especially where a dedicated LFE (Low-Frequency Effects) channel is available, as with Dolby Digital– or DTS Digital Surround–encoded discs.

Cables

We recommend the use of high-quality screened analogue, digital and video cables as inferior-quality cables will degrade the sound and picture quality of your system. Only use cables that are designed for the particular application as other cables will have different impedance characteristics that will degrade the performance of your system (do not use audio cables to carry video, for example). Speaker-cable length should be a short as practically possible, but pairs of cables (the cables to the front-left and front-right speakers, for example) should be of similar lengths.

We advise routing the interconnect cables, speaker cables and mains-power cables away from each other to minimise interference.

If you require help chosing suitable cables, please contact your dealer or installer.

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