User manual CLASSE AUDIO SSP-800

[. . . ] Owner's Manual SSP-800/CT-SSP Surround Sound Processor NOTICE All of us at Classé take extreme care to ensure that your purchase will remain a prized investment. We are proud to inform you that all Classé components have been officially approved for the European Community (CE) mark. This means that your Classé product was subjected to the most rigorous manufacturing and safety tests in the world. The CE mark certifies that your purchase meets or exceeds all European Community requirements for manufacturing consistency and consumer safety. [. . . ] Likewise, connect black (­) terminals to black (­) terminals. 29 Step 6 Power up the system! NowyouarereadytopowerupyourSSPandyoursurroundsystem. · The initial power-up cycle of the SSP takes approximately 90 seconds. (For the CT-SSP, thestandbybuttonitselfwillflashblue. ) · Whenthepower-upcycleiscomplete, theSSPentersStandbymode. The LED (or standby button) stops flashing but remains illuminated, indicating that the SSP is in Standby mode. Refer to the Front Panel section, for more details about Standby mode. · PresstheStandby button or the front panel touchscreen to bring the SSP to its fully ON mode. The front panel touch screen displays a blue screen with an "initializing" message and then switches to the home page of the menu system. Refer to the Menu System section found later in the manual for more information. The physical setup of the SSP and system components is complete. 30 Understanding Surround Sound Today'ssophisticatedsurroundsoundsystemshavespawnedabewildering arrayoftechnologiesandacronyms. Inthissection, we'llgiveyouabasic understandingofwhatallthatjargonmeans. Asaresult, you'llbebetter equipped to take advantage of the best that home entertainment has to offer. Today'shomeentertainmentsystemsreproducesoundtracksthatinclude anything from one to eight separate channels of information. Examples include: · Watchingmonomovies, suchasCasablanca or The Wizard of Oz, having only a single channel of audio information in the soundtrack. · ListeningtoamusicalCD, whichistypicallystereoor2-channel sound. · WatchingtheoriginalStar Wars in the original Dolby Surround Pro Logic format, which is four channels of information derived from two channels. · WatchingarecentmovieorT. V. showina5. 1-channelor 7. 1-channel surround format, which identifies that the source material has either five or seven full-range signals for the front, surround, and rear speakers plus the . 1 signal for the Low Frequency Effects (LFE), also referred to as the LFE channel, for the subwoofer. Your SSP-800 handles all of these tasks with ease, switching to an appropriate processing mode automatically upon sensing the nature of the incoming signal. For example, disc-based media often contains multiple soundtracks with varying numbers of channels and even different languages. Because you may have to choose the one you want to hear using the menu of the media itself, you should know what jargonyou'lllikelysee. When movie-makers first wanted to expand beyond simple stereo (left and right audio channels), they had a problem - the entire infrastructure on which they depended was stereo. Dolby Laboratories solved that problem with a system called Dolby Surround that embedded two extra channels of audio sound into the existing stereo pair so that specialized circuitry could retrieve the extra information with reasonable accuracy. This technique, whereby channels are mixed together with the intention of separating them later, is called matrix encoding and decoding. The disadvantage, as you might expect, is that it is difficult to completely and perfectly separate two channels that have been mixed together. That is, each speaker has a distinct signal that is completely independent of every other channel. This approach is clearly more desirable, since it gives the movie-makers more creative control over the quality of your experience. [. . . ] Other types of HDMI sources show either no picture or improper colors. 8 Voltage Protection Circuit When the SSP is connected to AC power, the AC input enters the component through a Voltage Sensing Circuit, which checks the voltage level every 25 milliseconds. Power can only reach the component once it has passed the Voltage Sensing Circuit. The circuit verifies that the power is within tolerable operating levels: P of ±10% of its AC line voltage setting. [. . . ]