User manual VINCENT SAV-C1

[. . . ] Dear Customer, we thank you for the confidence you prove in purchasing our product. It will match your high demands towards sound and manufacturing quality. Though it is understandable that you want to plug and play this product instantaneously, we encourage you to read this manual carefully before installation. It will help you in handling and operating this machine in your system and obtaining the best possible performance, even if it was installed by your dealer. [. . . ] The SAVC1 preamplifier is equipped with an HDCD-decoder, which allows it to play discs of this format from a standard non-HDCD capable CD or DVD-player, if it is connected via a digital sound connection. Therefore the HDCD setting in the SPEAKER menu only affects the four inputs that have a digital connection (CD, DVD, SAT, D-TV). Despite this, the audio playback mode can be changed by using "MODE" (7)(26). If the setting is active and an HDCD signal is received, this is shown in the display by the symbol "HDCD IN". Because the unit automatically distinguishes between the standard CD signal and the HDCD signal, the HDCD option can remain switched on even when playing conventional CD's. The HDCD option is global, which means the setting is retained if another input channel is selected or the audio playback mode is changed. The setting also does not change if the analogue sound connection ("IN MODE" (6)(22)) of one of the inputs "CD", "DVD", "SAT" or "D-TV" was temporarily selected. After the "SPEAKER" key (10)(30) was pressed several times from standard mode, you enter the possible settings for the type and size of the speakers used. Every additional pressing of the "SPEAKER" key (10)(30) advances to the setting for the next speaker or group of speakers. The settings described below for the currently selected speaker channel can be changed using the rotating "PARAMETER" knob (1) or the "SET" keys (31). As , , SMALL" speakers all speaker models without nameable bass (frequencies below 80 Hz) playback Ability are declared, irrespective their size. , , LARGE" speakers are all used speakers that have the ability to playback low bass frequencies. if , for example , no rear surround speakers have been installed , the required setting is , , NONE". This channel is activated or deactivated together with the right and left rear channel. ("CHANNEL" AND "TEST" KEYS) In most cases the viewing/listening position must be chosen in a way that the distances to the different speakers are not equal. Additionally, efficiency of different speaker types varies, so that the experienced volume level at identical signal at the speaker output can be very different. If the front speakers are able to transmit the complete audio frequency spectrum or if no subwoofer will be installed, choose "L", otherwise choose "S". Only the volume of those channels active in the currently selected playback mode can always be changed. For example, the relative volume of the rear centre channel can only be adjusted in the "DIG. Also, it is impossible to adjust all channels deactivated by setting them to "N" using "SPEAKER" (10)(30). Select a preamplifier input, for which an audio playback mode is adjustable, which supports all speaker channels ("CD/AV1", for example, with the digital sound connection selected). Use the "MODE" key (7)(26) to select an audio playback mode, which also supports all speaker channels ("DIG. [. . . ] 1" logo and not the DTS-ES logo on the front plate of the unit, it contains a matrix decoder for the Back Surround channel developed by the manufacturer in question and fitted without an official DTS licence. pCM The PCM format is the original format of all digital sound signals. It is the term for the conventional digital representation of a signal, having sampled values using a constant resolution in bits and a constant sampling frequency. Therefore every analogue signal, regardless of whether an audio or a video signal, can be represented and stored on digital media. [. . . ]