Special Design Features - Classe Audio Delta STEREO Owner's Manual

highly refined
circuit design
extensive listening tests Excellent measured performance is to be expected in world-class products, and
extraordinary longevity The Classé Design team has accumulated vast experience in what works well over
robust protection Finally, your new Classé amplifier incorporates a variety of protection circuits, all
6

Special Design Features

This Classé amplifier utilizes our latest technology, implemented with the
highest quality parts. A combination of careful part selection and circuit layout
combined with an extended class A operating area enables superior performance
under all conditions. It delivers enormous power into low-impedance loads and
achieves extremely low distortion throughout the audio band, most notably
maintaining its low-distortion profile even at high frequencies. The result is
an engaging sound without listener fatigue that will lead to countless hours of
listening enjoyment.
Classé products deliver that performance. However, experience has shown that
technical excellence alone is insufficient to guarantee subjectively musical results.
For this reason, all Classé products are laboriously fine-tuned during the
development process by carefully controlled listening tests. Our ears are still
some of the finest test instruments available, and nicely complement even the
best engineering test equipment. We rely on careful listening tests, which we
view as a necessary complement to the solid engineering you should rightly
expect from Classé.
the long term.
By using only the highest quality parts to begin with, and then using them in
an informed way as a result of both accelerated aging tests and actual long-
term experience, we are able to design and manufacture products which we are
confident will stand the test of time.
We are confident that your new Classé amplifier will give you many years of
trouble-free reliability and musical enjoyment, just as previous Classé products
have given their owners.
designed to protect both the amplifier and your loudspeakers against dangerous
fault conditions. Significantly, these protection circuits do not intrude upon
or limit the normal performance of the amplifier; rather, they simply put the
amplifier into protection mode when confronted with abnormal conditions.
These conditions include:
• output overload and short circuit protection
• DC offset
• excessive operating temperatures
Some conditions, such as DC offset, may be corrected up to a point
automatically in the amplifier while others will result in the amplifier switching
itself off. In such a case, the Standby LED status indicator will blink red until
the fault can be righted and the amplifier is reset by pressing and holding the
standby button for at least five seconds.