Cary Audio Design SLP-2002 manual

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    SLP-2002 USERS MANUAL SLP-2002 Stereo Balanced Vacuum Tube Preamplifier Fully Balanced Vacuum Tube Line Stage Circuit Design with Cinema Bypass and Remote Volume Control CARY AUDIO DESIGN 1020 GOODWORTH DRIVE APEX, NORTH CAROLINA 27539[...]

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    SLP-2002 USERS MANUAL Congratulations Cary Audiophile! All of us at Cary Audio thank you for buying an SLP-2002 preamplifier for your home audio system. This design has many innovative features to offer ease of use and superb reproduction of your favorite music. This preamplifier includes fully balanced vacuum tube circuitry with dual triode 6922 a[...]

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    SLP-2002 USERS MANUAL Special listening note: The SLP-2002 will need approximately 100 hours of ‘burn-in’ time to sound its best. A new vacuum tube takes this amount of time to fully settle into its long term operating condition. During the first 100 hours the SLP-2002 will sound good but it will improve in its sonic characteristics as the burn[...]

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    SLP-2002 USERS MANUAL SLP-2002 Design Features: The headphone jack is driven by the buffer stage 5814 tubes through specially chosen audio grade transformers. These audio grade transformers were included so that the sound quality of the SLP-2002 would be preserved and offered to headphone lovers. Headphones may be used with or without having the po[...]

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    SLP-2002 USERS MANUAL Specifications for the SLP-2002 Regular Inputs: Five source components, 2 XLR or RCA, 3 RCA only connection Extra Input: Cinema bypass XLR or RCA connection Circuit design: Fully balanced, 4 separate line gain stages, Class A triode operation Frequency Response: 9 Hz – 70 kHz +/- 3 dB Total Harmonic distortion: <0.1 % @ 2[...]

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    SLP-2002 USERS MANUAL SAFETY WARNING : Vacuum tube circuits need high voltage to work properly. Please do not open the cabinet of the SLP-2002 while the preamplifier is on or plugged into an AC power supply. Even when it is unplugged there is high voltage present in the circuitry, stored by the capacitors on the main circuit board. Please do not in[...]

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    SLP-2002 USERS MANUAL DISTORTED BASS OVERLOADING SMALL SPEAKERS? TOO LOUD VOLUME “CLIPPING” YOUR AMPLIFIER? DAMAGED WOOFERS IN YOUR SUB OR MAIN SPEAKERS? “HUM” IN SYSTEM AC CORD, VIDEO, DIGITAL AND AUDIO CABLES TOUCHING? THE AC CORD SHOULD BE SEPARATE FROM SIGNAL CABLES SIGNAL CABLES LAYING NEAR A LARGE POWER TRANSFORMER, SUCH AS IN A POWER[...]