Meridian America 562 Unpacking the, Installing your, General precautions, Customising features

Installing 562 6

Unpacking the 562

On opening the carton, you should have found the following parts:

∙Meridian 562 Control Unit

∙Power cord

∙This manual

∙Getting going instruction sheet

∙4mm banana plug for turntable grounding

∙500-Series communications lead

If any of these items is missing, please contact your dealer. We suggest that you retain the packing carefully as it provides maximum protection for the unit in transit.

Installing your 562

General precautions

Before carrying out any installation, you should ensure that the 562 is marked with the correct voltage for your local AC supply. Should this not be the case, do not proceed – but contact your dealer.

As a general rule, you should not make any connections to the 562, or to any other component in your system, whilst the AC power supply is con- nected and switched on.

For full details of Type settings and configuring 562, see ‘Customising 562, an overview' on page 13.

Customising features

The 562 is very flexible. You have the opportunity to significantly custom- ise its functions. In the end this gives you a preamplifier that exactly suits you.

The Meridian 562 is not a product that you are likely to use stand-alone, you are quite likely to be using some other Meridian components and getting the best out of the system will require a little thought.

The section ‘Customising 562, an overview' on page13 describes the op- tions in detail. Obviously, when you have set up 562 to your needs, you will be aware of the differences from the standard configurations.

We recommend that you first get to know the 562 using one of the stan- dard setups, and by working through this manual. Do not be afraid later to experiment with customising – we have given you a simple way to get back to where you started! (See page 16).

562 as provided has nine standard configurations that we call Type set- tings. Each Type gives a different set of options; this feature is described fully on page 16. There are many more than nine possible configurations for 562, but these were chosen to give good starting points for customising.

By selecting a Type you automatically reset all custom settings for 562 to that default.

562 has five operating modes (not to be confused with setup Types):

∙Normal

∙Standby

∙Type

∙Config

∙Gain

Normal and Standby are the everyday operating modes: the basic operat- ing instructions refer to these.

562 User Guide