Thank you for purchasing the Bel Canto Design Dac3. Your Dac3 sets a benchmark for design, quality and sonic performance, continuing Bel Canto’s heritage of musicality and realism. Dac3 ™ Audio DAC/Preamplifier with Ultra-Clock T A B L E C O N T E N T S Warranty .
Placement and Initial Setup Because the Dac3 runs cool it can be the chassis finish. Do not use harsh placed in many system locations without chemicals when cleaning the outside of compromise. We do not recommend your Dac3. placing weights or other objects directly on the Dac3.
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Pressing and holding the control knob and the Dac3 will return to the default for 2 seconds will take the Dac3 out of volume control mode. Inputs are indicat- Standby and in to operating mode. The ed as: AES, SP1(SPDIF1), SP2(SPDIF2), unit will come up in a soft mute mode.
Remote Control Mute: (available only on the Standby: remote) Used to toggle the DAC3 into and out of The Dac3 starts up in Soft Mute. This standby mode. Standby hard mutes the level is 20dB below the displayed vol- outputs while keeping all circuitry run- ume level.
Dac3 Rear Panel Insure that the Fixed/Variable Output button is in the out (variable) posi- tion if using the Dac3 directly into a power amplifier. Operation in fixed mode directly into the amplifier could cause extreme output levels, clip- ping and damage to the loudspeakers, amplifier or your ears!
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Because of the DC coupled best after several hundred hours of play nature of the Dac3 there is a small resid- and 48-72 hours of power on after the ual DC offset on the outputs. This is typi- initial break-in time.
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