Sherwood S-9400CP Installation And Operation Manual page 4

1. AM FERRITE BAR ANTENNA
Your receiver comes with an AM built-in bar antenna. Rotate this bar antenna away from chassis for best
reception of AM stations.
2. EXTERNAL AM ANTENNA
In ferroconcrete buildings or in areas far from broadcast stations, the built-in antenna may not prove adequate.
To supplement the built-in antenna, connect 10 to 20 feet of insulated, flexible, single conductor, wire to this
terminal. This wire should be kept away from all speaker cables and power cables and run in a straight line along
a non-metallic baseboard or under a rug.
3. AM GROUND TERMINAL
For best results when using an external AM antenna, the receiver's chassis should be properly grounded. This is
easily done by connecting this terminal to the nearest water pipe or metal conduit
th~t
goes directly to true
ground.
4. FM ANTENNA BALANCED TERMINALS
This 240 to 300 ohm balanced input is used for the standard TV twin lead connection. The dipole antenna pro-
vided with your receiver should be adequate for local FM reception. Attach the antenna's arm horizontally to
a non-metallic surface such as a window, a wall, or the rear surface of a cabinet or shelf. In general, the antenna
is best positioned when it is as high as possible above floor level and its arms are perpendicular to the source of
transmission. If you are located a considerable distance from the FM transmitters or in ferroconcrete buildings,
an outdoor FM antenna may be required to reduce background noise, fading or interference.
5. FM ANTENNA UNBALANCED CONNECTION
This connector is used for 60 to 75 ohm unbalanced coaxial cable connection.
6. SYSTEM GROUND TERMINAL
To reduce hum to a minimum, use this terminal to interconnect the chassis or ground lead of the turntable and
tape deck to the receiver. Attach the ground lead from your turntable and tape deck to this terminal if available.
To further minimize hum, it may be necessary to connect the GROUND terminal with a wire to the nearest
water pipe which goes directly to true ground.
7. PHONOINPUTJACKS
Inputs are for tun tables having magnetic cartridges with 47,000 ohms of impedance. Connect shielded cables
from your phono arm to the LEFT and RIGHT input jacks. To avoid loss of high frequency response, it is re-
commended that these cables do not exceed 6 feet in length. (NOTE: Do not place your turntable on a speaker
enclosure. This will avoid howling caused by transmitting of the speaker vibration to the turntable.
8. AUX INPUT JACKS
These extra stereo input jacks are provided for any high level sources you may wish to connect to your receiver.
An
additional tape recorder, a turntable with ceramic cartridge or similar high level source can be plugged into
this auxiliary input and selected by the FUNCTION SELECTOR switch on the front panel.
9. TAPE IN JACKS
The output signal coming from your tape deck or tape recorder during playback is fed into these jacks and
selected as a listening source by pushing the TAPE MONITOR switch on the front panel to the "in" position
regardless of the position of FUNCTION switch.
10. TAPE OUT JACKS
Signals from these jacks are fed to the line inputs of tape deck or tape recorder for recording purpose. Select
the source to be recorded with the FUNCTION switch on the front panel. Tone controls, loudness, high fllter,
mode and volume settings have no effect on the signal. To monitor this source while recording, simply select
the desired speakers and adjust VOLUME, etc, to the desired listening level, with the TAPE MONITOR switch