Instruction/ maintenance manual of the product XA60 Pass Labs
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1 XA60 Owner’ s Manual pass TM XA60 Owner’ s Man ual May 18, 2006.
2 XA60 Owner’ s Manual Analog designer Nelson P ass has ov er the years produced some tr uly g reat solid-state amplifiers , each unique in it’ s own w ay .
3 XA60 Owner’ s Manual (very loud) av erag e acoustic signal in a 100 cubic meter room, peaks will be somewhat higher . The XA60 has a massive toroidal transformer coupled to a high cur rent DC reser voir .
4 XA60 Owner’ s Manual W e have pro vided a standard IEC pow er cord that fits into the standard 15 amp IEC receptacle at the rear of the amplifier chassis . T wo XA60’ s may be run on a single 15-amp circuit in conjunction with other audio components .
5 XA60 Owner’ s Manual On the front panel, the “Standby” LED indicator should be glo wing blue, indicating that A C power is a vailable and the capacitor banks are charged.
6 XA60 Owner’ s Manual Now that the source component is connected, mak e sure there is no signal coming from it, probably by turning the volume all the w ay down.
7 XA60 Owner’ s Manual a b ig deal . Y ou shou ld be a ble to put y our hand s o n th e h eat sin ks wi thou t d isco mfort for 10 sec onds or so . The ampl ifi er h as a th er ma l c utou t t hat wil l di sco nnec t A C po w er if th e te mpe ratu re ex cee ds 75 d egrees Ce ntigra de .
8 XA60 Owner’ s Manual W e have found that about 90 per cent of bad sounding cables are really bad sounding connections , and we recommend that attention be paid to cleanliness of electrical contact surfaces and proper connector fit. Speaker cables should be fir mly tightened do wn at the speaker output ter minals , but not with a wrench.
9 XA60 Owner’ s Manual All figures obtained after 1 hour war m-up , with regulated 120 V A C pow er line. See man ual notes about A C power line regulation. Gain 26 dB Freq. R esponse -3 dB at 1.5 Hz, -3 dB at 100 kHz P ow er Output 60 watts max @ 1% THD , 1 kHz, 8 ohms Maximum Output V oltag e plus , minus appro x.
10 XA60 Owner’ s Manual Please check with the factor y-authorized distributor in the countr y you are purchasing this product for specific w ar ranty infor mation. All P ass Laboratories products purchased from an authorized Pass Labora- tories dealer in Nor th America are covered b y a transferable, limited 3-year warranty .
11 XA60 Owner’ s Manual W ater and moisture: Electrical devices should not be used near water ( as per example , near a bathtub , washbasin, kitc hen sink, laundr y tub , wet basement or swimming pool ).
12 XA60 Owner’ s Manual Som eti mes tw o desi gns com ple ment eac h oth er so we ll that yo u are surp ris ed whe n you le arn they w ere n ’ t in ve nte d toget her . So it is wi th th e X Sup ers ymme tery™ amp lie r a nd the Alep h si ngl e-en ded Cl ass A out put ci rcui t.
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