Unpacking And Placement; Unpacking Your Amplifier; Placement; Ventilation - Classe Audio CA-M400 Owner's Manual

unpacking your amplifier

Important!

placement

ventilation

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Unpacking and Placement

Carefully unpack your power amplifier according to the supplied in-
structions, and remove all accessories from the carton. Please take care
when lifting the amplifier, as it is quite heavy.
Keep all packing materials for future transport of your
Classé product. Shipping your new component in
anything other than its purpose-designed packing
material may result in damage that is not covered by the
warranty.
There are two options when placing your power amplifier: you may
place it close to the speakers, requiring longer interconnecting cables
from the preamplifier; or place it close to the preamplifier, requiring
longer speaker cables.
Although either approach will yield excellent performance, you might
consider the first option for two reasons. First, signal quality degrades
more easily when transmitted as a combination of both high voltage and
high current, suggesting that speaker cables should be kept as short as
practical. Second, high quality amplifiers use massive power supplies
which inevitably radiate some degree of magnetic fields. Ideally, one
would separate these fields from sensitive source components by a rea-
sonable distance.
If it is more convenient for you to place the amplifier in an equipment
rack, along with your other components, we suggest placing it at the
bottom of the rack, well away from your source components and
preamplifier. This location will also be more stable than placing such a
heavy component near the top of a rack, which might make it top-
heavy.
Note that adequate clearance for the AC cord and connecting cables
must be left behind the CA-M400. We suggest leaving eight
inches (20 cm) of free space behind your power amplifier to allow
all cables sufficient room to bend without crimping or undue strain.
Your Classé power amplifier generates a certain amount of heat in the
course of normal operation. Be sure to allow six inches of clearance
above it and three inches to each side to allow heat dissipation through
air circulation. The vents on both the bottom and the top of the
CA-M400 must be kept free from any obstruction which would reduce