Cabling And Cable Handling - Horizon Fitness LampizatOr User Manual

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equipped with voltage down feature (bleeders) which reduce the power voltage upon
switch-off at roughly the same rate.
On top of that – the tubes are operated around 25% of full nominal power, which
greatly increases their life expectancy. Combining all the factors together, the tube
lifetime should be anywhere between 10 and 20 years, assuming the player is switched
off only once per day, for the night. Our circuit goes way beyond the tube datasheet
recommended protection. It extends the tube life at least double to tenfold versus the
datasheet specs.

Cabling and cable handling

Just to be sure that we know what we are doing:
- AC cable can be freely plugged and unplugged during operation. It is OK for the
DAC but NOT OK for the amplifier and speakers. A loud thump may appear after
switch off. Please use standby off before switching off the DAC from power cable.
- S/PDIF cable should be plugged and unplugged when the transport is powered off.
The DAC can be on. However doing it on „hot" when all is working – is not
dangerous for the DAC as long as the AC power supply has the GND for all
products (DAC, transport, amps).
- RCA Signal cables can be plugged / unplugged with the amplifier volume turned
fully down. XLR cables can be unplugged and plugged at any time because it is in
their professional nature to do so.
Please use a decent AC cable. We suggest spending around 100-500 Euro for a good
AC cable, not much more but not much less. The free AC "computer grade" cables are
not good enough for serious audio.
Please use a decent digital interconnect. In our DAC it is completely unimportant what
is the wave characteristic impedance of the cable (the famous 75 Ohms). Just use the
cable that sounds good to you. Analog as well as digital interconnects can be tried.
Best results are obtained with silver cables. Let your ears decide, not specs of the
cable.
Lampizators produces all types of cables for audio systems - you can order
them from us with confidence of tremendous value for money. To beat our
cables you need to spend 2000 Euro per one.
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