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Bel Canto Design PHONO 1 manual

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  • Page 1

    Bel Canto Design PHONO 1 Low Noise Solid State Phono Preamplifier User's Guide and Operating Information Bel Canto Design • 212 Third Avenue North – Suite 345 • Minneapolis, MN 55401 Phone: (612) 317.4550 • Fax: (612) 359.9358 • Email: Info@BelCantoDesign.com Aug.2000[...]

  • Page 2

    Page 2 PHONO Owner's Manual Low Noise Solid State Phono1 Preamplifier The Bel Canto Design’s P HONO1 components are selected for high sound quality, precision, technical virtue, and material quality. Bel Canto’s circuit designs and component quality will provide superb performance and years of listening satisfaction.[...]

  • Page 3

    PHONO Owner's Manual Page 3 Bel Canto Design grew from the quest to achieve the ultimate musical satisfaction from an audio system. This quest began with the discovery of the inherent sonic qualities and musical performance potential of a nearly forgotten technology, the single-ended triode amplifier. The ability of this type of amplifier to r[...]

  • Page 4

    Page 4 PHONO Owner's Manual Design Features A classic architecture had been chosen to provide a firm foundation for the RIAA equalization and gain stages of the Phono1. The RIAA uses a robust series EQ architecture with high precision, low noise, high linearity resistors and high precision polypropylene film and foil construction capacitors fo[...]

  • Page 5

    PHONO Owner's Manual Page 5 Unpacking Unpacking The box containing your Phono1 contains the following parts: 1 - Phono1 User's Guide 1 - Power Cable for connection to utility power [1.85m, 6' long] (External Box Version Only) 1 – Phono1 preamplifier 1 - Owner's Warranty / Registration Sheet Carefully your new unit and check fo[...]

  • Page 6

    Page 6 PHONO Owner's Manual Gain Settings, Initial Setup, and Placement • Gain Settings Internal jumpers accommodate Moving Magnet, Moving Coil (Low Gain), and Moving Coil (High Gain) settings. The Phono1 is shipped from the factory set for Moving Magnet operation. Gain structure changes are easily made by first removing the two gold nuts fr[...]

  • Page 7

    PHONO Owner's Manual Page 7 DIP switch setting BLANK = UP, X = DOWN Cartridge 50 100 500 1 k 10 k Load(ohms) 50000 8333 x 980 x 893 x x 495 x 472 x x 331 x x 321 x x x 100 x 99 x x 91 x x 90 x x x 83 x x 77 x x x 76 x x x x 50 x 48 x x 47 x x x 45 x x 43 x x x 33 x x 32 x x x 31 x x x 30 x x x x • Input Panel Connections The input connection[...]

  • Page 8

    Page 8 PHONO Owner's Manual Specifications RIAA accuracy Into >20K Ohms • 20 Hz-20 kHz +/- 0.25 dB Signal to Noise Ratio • > 75 dB A weighted MM/MC Distortion at 3 Volts RMS out • <0.01% Input configuration and impedance • Adjustable /MC, 47 Kohms/MM Output Options • 1 Pair RCA Output Impedance • 50 ohms Maximum Output Lev[...]