Scott 340 Owner's Manual

SCOTT 340 AND 340B

OWNERʼS MANUAL

PERFORMANCE AND DESIGN

As part of the extensive sonic upgrade of the 340, all front panel controls have

been bypassed except for Tape Monitor, Input, Loudness and Power (Power

On/Off is the furthest right switch).

To set up the receiver, connect any line level source interconnects (e.g., CD

player, cassette player, etc.) to either the Extra (4th pair of RCA jacks from the

right when looking at the back of the chassis) or the Tape In RCA jacks (5th pair

from the right). The upper jacks are all left channel; the lower ones are right

channel inputs. To play the source connected to Extra, switch the Input selector

knob to Extra and switch Tape Monitor to Out (NOTE: when Tape Monitor is set

to In, ALL other inputs are turned OFF, including the FM tuner). To play the

source connected to Tape In, set the Tape Monitor switch to In.

If you wish to use the superb phono section of the 340, connect your turntable to

the MAG HI inputs (2nd set of RCA jacks from the right). Gain of the Scott phono

stage is sufficient to play any moving magnet cartridge or any high output-moving

coil (i.e., 1 mv or more output rating).

To connect speaker cables on the 340B, Hot (red) goes to one of the upper row

of speaker terminal screws marked 4, 8 and 16. Pick the one closest to the rated

impedance of your speaker. (Reading from left to right, the upper row of screws

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Table of Contents

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Page 1 Tape In, set the Tape Monitor switch to In. If you wish to use the superb phono section of the 340, connect your turntable to the MAG HI inputs (2nd set of RCA jacks from the right). Gain of the Scott phono stage is sufficient to play any moving magnet cartridge or any high output-moving coil (i.e., 1 mv or more output rating).
Page 2 5th from the right screw terminal (also marked 0). To connect speaker cables to the Scott 340, Ground (black) goes to the leftmost screw marked 0 (upper one is left channel ground, lower one is right channel).
Page 3 FURTHER SONIC UPGRADES Even though your Mapleshade-modded Scott 340 will sound better, as delivered, then almost any combination of separate tuner, preamp and amp costing $10,000 or up, you can still improve the sound quite a bit further with some external...
Page 4 receiver disassembly. You will find the improvement in dynamics, detail, bass tightness and treble extension most satisfying. To gain even further warmth, bass extension and harmonic detail, install our Tube Anchors in the following priority order: the two 6U8 driver tubes (use the Type A-U.S.

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