Parasound manual Unpacking Your CD 1 & Placement Guidelines, Rack Mounting Your Parasound CD

Unpacking Your CD 1 & Placement Guidelines

Unpacking Your CD 1

Carefully remove your CD 1 from its shipping carton and locate the enclosed accessories:

•AC power cord

•Remote Control and two AAA batteries

While you are unpacking your CD 1, inspect it thoroughly for possible shipping damage and tell your Parasound dealer immediately if you find any evidence of shipping damage.

This would be a good time to make a copy of your sales receipt to store with the CD 1’s original packing.

Note: Please save and store both the inner and outer cartons and, most especially, the foam packing inserts to protect the CD 1 if you have to move it or ship it. You may wish to flatten the cardboard cartons to save room in storage after cutting the taped seams on the bottom flaps.

Placement Guidelines

The CD 1 will be easier to use and will last longer if you follow these simple guidelines:

•Use output interconnects that are long enough to leave some slack. This will enable you to pull the CD

1out of a cabinet to check or change your connections without inadvertently disconnecting them.

•The CD 1 should never be placed in a completely enclosed cabinet.

•Place your CD 1 where you can route input and output signal cables as far as possible from any of your system’s AC cords.

•Where signal cables must cross AC cords it’s best if they cross at a 90° right angle.

Ventilation Requirements

•Always position the CD 1 horizontally.

•The CD 1 should never be stacked above a heat producing component such as a power amplifier.

•Do not install the CD 1 in an unventilated equipment cabinet or compartment. Pockets of stagnant hot air can build up even in a cabinet whose front and back are open. A ventilation fan such as the

Parasound Zbreeze is highly recommended to prevent “hot spots” in confined spaces.

Rack Mounting Your Parasound CD 1

With its four feet removed, the CD 1’s front panel height occupies two rack spaces: 3.5" or 88.2 mm. (A single standard rack space occupies 1.75"/44.1mm vertical space.) For mounting in a standard 19” (482mm) equipment rack, you must use the Parasound HRA 2 rack mount kit (purchased separately). The HRA 2 kit includes four bolts and eight plastic washers with raised “shoulders.”

Slide one washer onto each mounting bolt with its raised shoulder pointing toward the panel hole. Carefully insert the bolt through the hole and slide the other washer on the bolt with its raised shoulder facing the rear side of the panel. The washers will sandwich the CD 1 panel and the four mounting bolts to prevent metal-to-metal contact between the CD 1 chassis, the equipment rack, and the other components mounted in the rack.

Note: Tighten each bolt just enough to keep the CD 1 secure in the rack to avoid compressing and deforming the shoulder washers. Eliminating metal-to-metal contact reduces the likelihood of creating a ground loop that might introduce hum into your system.

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