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Cary Audio Design CAD 300 manual

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    OWNER’S MANUAL ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo CAD 300 SEI Single-ended Integrated Stereo Ampli fi er NOTE: Bef ore installing your new component, please read this manual carefully as it will inform you of the product speci fi cat[...]

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    TABLE OF CO NTENTS ______________________________________________ Introduction................................................................................................................... ... 3-4 Specifications ................................................................................................................. .. 4-5 Features....[...]

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    2 INTRODUC TIO N ____________________________________________________ Congratulations! You have purchased one of the most ex otic vacuum tube audio integrated amplifiers available. Within it s power range, the CAD 300 SEI integrated amplifier offers t he most realistic sound reproduction one could desire for a “high-end” home audio system. Care[...]

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    3 Another technical feature of your new CAD 300 SEI is amplifier stability. The CAD 300 SEI may be operated with no load (without speaker) wi thout damage to the amplifier, output transformer or tubes. This is th e hallmark of a high performance, STABLE, amplifier circuit design. The most exciting feature of the C AD 300 SEI, asid e from how compac[...]

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    4 ............................................................................................................................... ......................................................................................... FREQUENCY RESPONSE 23 – 20,000 Hz (+0 – 0.75dB) ..............................................................................[...]

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    5 FEATU RES __________________________________________________________ Front Panel ............................................................................................................................... ......................................................................................... AC - ON SWITCH Turns AC power on in the “UP” [...]

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    6 INSTALLA TION _____________________________________________________ This section describes the unpackin g and insta llation procedu res for your new component. Unpacking All Cary Audio Design shi pping containers ha ve been specially designed to pr otect their contents and special care has been taken to prevent damage under normal shipping con di[...]

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    7 OPERAT ION ________________________________________________________ Signal input connection is made via the in put jacks on the rear of the CAD 300 SEI located next to the output binding posts. The interconnect cables from th e output of the preamplifie r can be any convenient length your set-up requires. Th e choice of a high quality in terconne[...]

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    10 Tube Placement Chart CAUTION Large pins on the 300B output tubes must be inserted into the large holes in the tube socket. Failure to follow these in structions will result in serious damage to the tubes and amplifier and is not covered by the ma nufacturer’s warranty.[...]

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    11 SERVICE AN D C ARE ________________________________________________ The chassis may be cleaned with a soft to wel and Windex® or a similar window cleaner. Spray it on th e cleaning cloth to moi sten it, not o n the component. Do no t use solvents or ha rsh chemicals to cl ean the preamplifier. They may remove the labels from the chassis. The fr[...]

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    12 UNITED STATES LI MITED WARRA NTY ______________________________ Cary Audio Design warrants to the original United States purc haser for use in the United St ates that Cary Audio Design vacuum tube or solid state power amplifiers, surround sound pr ocessors or preamplifiers sha ll be free from defects in parts or workmanship for three (3) years f[...]

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    CARY A UDIO DESIGN 1020 Goodworth Drive, Apex, NC 27539 phone 919-355-0010 fax 919-355-0013 www.caryaudio.com ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo ooooooooooooooooooo[...]