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POWER CONNECTIONS
As assembled, units are normally wired for 120 VAC,
The power regulation of the
Accessory AC outlets are provided on the back panel for other equipment. One unswitched outlet is provided for a turntable or tape recorder whose mechanical system may require disengagement through its own power switch. Most units, including power amplifiers, tuners, and many tape recorders and record players, may be connected to the switched outlets for convenient remote switching from the preamp’s front panel. The
There are two pairs of phono inputs, identified as Phono 1 and Phono 2. These are independent, and thus they may have different capacitive termination for differing car- tridge requirements. As assembled, Phono 1 is provided with a compensation capacitor of 120 picofarads, and Phono 2 is provided with 220 picofarads. One of these val- ues will accommodate most ‘Moving magnet’ cartridges. These have output levels intended for normal phono in- puts (0.5 millivolts per centimeter or higher) and are the most popular. Some high output ‘moving coil’ design car- tridges are not sensitive to capacitive loading, so they may be used with either input.
Though some phono cartridges are comparatively free of loading sensitivity, if the cartridge manufacturer specifies the proper load capacitance (which is the sum of the preamp’s internal capacitance, and the cables you use, as well as the above described capacitor), the most accu- rate sound will be obtained by following that recommenda- tion. If you have chosen the
The Additional Information section of this manual de- tails the determination of the loading capacitor for a specified cartridge load. It also describes how the resistive load of the phono inputs may be changed, if needed, from the standard 47K ohms.
Moving coil design cartridges often require an auxiliary
Adjacent to the Phono 1 input sockets are two Ground terminals on the back panel. These thumbscrews provide for connection of separate ground wires often provided on turntables, or as part of their audio cables. This ‘chassis ground’ may sometimes reduce the hum level of a system when it is connected to an earth ground, such as a cold water pipe, or the ground wire of
These are high level
These are at line level and impedance. They connect to Tape Play outputs on the tape deck. They are not grounded when unused, since they can be connected by either the main selector switch or the Tape Monitor switch. They are terminated with 1 megohm resistors to avoid a possible switching transient.
RECORDING OUTPUTS
These connect to the Line Inputs of tape decks. The two pairs of outputs are wired in parallel. Thus two tape recor- ders receive identical signals. These outputs are buffered with a series resistor, and have an output impedance of 1.5K ohms. To provide full specification performance, the total tape recorder load should not be lower than 10K ohms (i.e. two 20k ohm recorder inputs on each channel).
Because it is possible that a preamplifier’s overall per- formance may be adversely affected by rectification ef-
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