Installation Guidelines - Arcam SOLO MUSIC Handbook

installation
guidelines
Speaker installation
The advice given here are general guidleines for speaker
installation. Refer to the documentation supplied with your
speakers for more precise positioning and installation
information.
Positioning
As a rough guide, speakers should be placed on rigid stands at
about 15–40cms from the rear wall and at least 60cms from any
side wall. Speakers should never be placed on the fl oor (unless
they are fl oor-standing speakers), or in corners.
The fi nal sound will depend on the acoustics of the listening room
and experimentation with speaker positioning is very worthwhile.
As a starting point, we suggest that the speakers are placed
2–3m apart with their backs 15cms from the rear wall.
General guidelines
Positioning the unit
Place Solo on a level, fi rm surface, avoiding
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direct sunlight and sources of heat or damp.
Do not place Solo on top of a power
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amplifi er or other source of heat.
Do not place Solo in an enclosed space
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such as a bookcase or closed cabinet unless
there is good provision for ventilation. Solo
is designed to run warm during normal
operation.
n Do not place any other component or item
on top of Solo as this may obstruct airfl ow
around the heat-sink, causing Solo to run
hot. (The unit placed on top of Solo would
become hot, too.)
Speaker stands
The more fi rmly a speaker is held, the better it will
sound. We recommend the use of rigid metal stands
of 40–60cms height. Properly damped types that do
not 'ring' when tapped with a pencil (either by virtue of
construction, or because they are fi lled with dry silver
sand) will bring out the best in a speaker. Ensure that the
stands and/or speakers do not wobble.
Listening in a second room
Solo provides two independent volume controls, offering
you the possibility of listening to the same output in two
different rooms of your house. To do this, you will require
the following:
a power amplifi er (such as the Arcam P80) and speakers;
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suitable interconnect cables, such as those described above;
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n a remote control receiver (optional), available from your Arcam dealer;
n a second Solo remote control (optional), available from your Arcam dealer.
Make the connections as follows:
1. Ensure that all equipment is switched off and disconnected from the mains
supply.
2. Connect the outputs of Solo labelled 'Zone 2' to the audio inputs of the power
amplifi er using the interconnect cables.
3. Connect the speakers to the speaker terminals of the power amp. The speakers
should be connected in the same method as described in the panel on page 4,
'Speakers'.
4. Plug the remote receiver from the second room into the connector labelled 'In
Zone 2' on the rear of Solo.
5. Reconnect the equipment to the mains supply and switch on. You should be
able to hear the output of Solo in through the power amp. and control the
volume using the remote control.
Make sure the remote-control receiver
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in the centre of the front panel display is
unobstructed, otherwise this will impair the
use of the remote-control. If line-of-sight is
impractical, a remote-control repeater can
be used with the rear panel connector (see
below).
Do not place your record deck on top of this
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unit. Record decks are very sensitive to the
noise generated by mains power supplies
which will be heard as a background 'hum' if
the record deck is too close.
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Interconnect cables
We recommend the use of high-quality screened
cables, since inferior-quality cables will degrade
the overall quality of your system. Use only cables
that are designed for the particular application
as other cables will have different impedance
characteristics that will degrade the performance
of your system (for example, do not use cabling
intended for video use to carry audio signals). All
cables should be kept as short as is practically
possible.
It is good practice when connecting your
equipment to make sure that the mains power-
supply cabling is kept as far away as possible from
your audio cables. Failure to do so may result in
unwanted noise in the audio signals.
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Note that the second room is always muted
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when Solo is switched on – it must be
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unmuted 'explicitly' when required. This is
to avoid unexpected output in the remote
location.
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