Musical Fidelity KW 500 manual Input Connections, Output Connections, Pre-Amplifieroutput

All input, output and power connections should be made with the mains power switched OFF.

INPUT CONNECTIONS

The kW 500 Integrated amplifier has a pair of phono inputs for moving magnet (MM) pickups.

Some turntable/pickup arm combinations are fitted with an extra wire for chassis earthing. This should be connected to the earth terminal on the back panel.

The kW 500 also has five “line level” inputs which are electrically identical, and therefore suitable for use with any source component having an output of at least 300mV. The sockets on the rear panel are marked CD, SACD, TUNER, AUXiliary, and TAPE, to correspond with function buttons on the front panel.

Using good quality co-axial audio leads, connect the left and right outputs from your CD player, tuner or phono/record deck to the appropriate RCA input sockets on the back panel.

Connect the kW 500’s TAPE input sockets to the line output of your tape recorder, and kW 500’s TAPE RECORD output sockets to the line input sockets of the tape deck.

OUTPUT CONNECTIONS

Connect your loudspeakers to the terminals on the back panel marked as LEFT and RIGHT SPEAKER outputs.

CONNECTIONS

PRE-AMPLIFIER OUTPUT

The kW 500 Integrated amplifier has its pre-amplifier output available from RCA sockets on the back panel marked PRE- OUT, and is controlled by the volume adjustment.

This is to allow “bi-amplification” using suitable external amplifiers and crossover networks to power the speaker drive com- ponents separately, giving noticeable improvement in clarity, imaging and bass weight.

In this arrangement, typically the kW 500’s speaker outputs are used to drive the speak- er’s “tweeter” (high audio frequencies), and an external stereo amplifier drives the “woofer” (low frequencies).

The kW 500’s PRE OUT RCA sockets would therefore be connected to the input of the external “woofer” amplifier in this example.

If you are in doubt about bi-amplification, please contact your dealer for advice.

BEFORE SWITCHING ON

Connect the two accessory power supply leads into the RIGHT and LEFT PSU (Power Supply Unit) INPUT sockets at the rear of the amplifier. The other ends of the leads plug into corresponding marked sock- ets on the back panel of the power supply unit.

A single lead with smaller plugs connects between the PRE-AMP PSU sockets on each unit.

Plug the accessory IEC mains lead into the rear PSU mains socket, then the other end into a wall outlet. Turn the volume control on the front panel to low (anticlockwise).

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