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    Martin Audio – CS265 CONTENTS (ENGLISH) P age No 1 INTRODUCTION 2 2 UNP ACKING 2 3 AMPLIFICA TION 3 4 SAFETY FIRST 3 5 CABLE LENGTHS 3 6 SYSTEM CONFIGURA TIONS 4 7 W ARRANTY 5 8 TECHNICAL SPECIFICA TIONS 6 MARTIN A UDIO LONDON The Martin Experience All material © 2007. Martin Audio Ltd. Subject to change without notice. CONTENTS < > PRINT [...]

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    1 INTRODUCTION Thank you for purchasing a Martin Audio CS265, a sub-bass system designed to be used with the C1 15 and C516 Contractor Series loudspeakers. It incorporates two powerful 6.5" (165mm) drive units in an ultra-compact enclosure. 2 UNP ACKING Each Martin Audio loudspeaker is built to the highest standard and thoroughly inspected bef[...]

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    3 AMPLIFICA TION The CS265 is designed to be used with professional power amplifiers capable of producing 100-200W per channel into 4 ohms: Care should be taken to avoid amplifier clipping. It is important to understand that a low power amplifier driven into clipping is more likely to damage a loudspeaker than a higher power amplifier used within i[...]

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    6 SYSTEM CONFIGURA TIONS The following configurations are available: 1 x CS265 with 2 x C1 15 1 x CS265 with 4 x C1 15 1 x CS265 with 4 x C516 Martin Audio – CS265 E NGLISH 4 WIRING DIA GRAM FOR 1xCS265 AND 2xC115 C115 ONL Y CH1 CH1 CS265 CH2 C115 ONL Y CH2 CH2 CH1 AMPLIFIER WIRING DIA GRAM FOR 1xCS265 AND 4xC115 OR C516 C115 OR C516 C115 OR C516[...]

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    When the systems are connected in this way , it provides the best match of sensitivity and power handling between the CS265 and C1 15 or C516 satellites, whilst maintaining a nominal overall impedance above 4 ohms. The configuration 1 x CS265 with 2 x C516 is not advisable unless the amplifier is capable of 2 ohm operation. When phase checking a sy[...]

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    8 TECHNICAL SPECIFICA TIONS CS265 TYPE Low profile ultra-compact sub bass system FREQUENCY RESPONSE 60Hz-120Hz ± 3dB LOW FREQUENCY LIMIT -10dB @ 55Hz DRIVERS 2 x 6.5" (165mm) long excursion drivers with 1.5" (38mm) voice coils RA TED POWER 200W AES, 800W peak (2 x 100W AES, 400W peak per driver) RECOMMENDED AMPLIFIER 100-200W into 4 ohms[...]

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    Contractor Series CS265 Century Point, Halifax Road, Cressex Business Park, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire HP12 3SL, England. T elephone: +44 (0)1494 535312 Facsimile: +44 (0)1494 438669 Web: www .martin-audio.com E-mail: info@martin-audio.com The Martin Experience MARTIN A UDIO LONDON Please Click here to return to main menu Please Click here to vi[...]

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    MARTIN A UDIO LONDON The Martin Experience E NGLISH Contractor Series CS265 User ’s Guide All material © 2007. Martin Audio Ltd. Subject to change without notice. CONTENTS < PRINT GUIDES >[...]