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Introduction
The Arcam Alpha 3 integrated stereo amplifier has been
designed to provide a combination of high quality sound reproduction and sophisticated styling. The Alpha 3 amplifier has five inputs for turntable, compact disc player, tuner, video sound output and tape recorder.
Klein vaarbewijs download games. The Alpha 3 provides outputs for both speakers and
headphones, and produces low level signals suitable for recording on to tape. Akai split air conditioner user manual.
Although designed for simplicity of operation the Alpha 3 has comprehensive tone control facilities which enable good results to be obtained with a wide variety of programme material.
A matching Alpha tuner, Compact Disc player and Alpha
speakers are also available. Please ask your dealer or distributor for full details, or write to Arcam at the address shown at the end of this booklet.
Installing and using vour Alpha 3 equipment
Mains connections Check that the voltage setting of the amplifier, as indicated on
the back panel, is the same as the local mains supply. The wires in the mains
lead are coloured in accordance with the following code:
Green and yellow - Earth Blue - Neutral Brown - Live
As the colours of the wires in the mains lead may not
correspond with the coloured markings identifying the terminals in your plug proceed as follows;
The wire which is coloured green and yellow must be
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connected to the terminal in the plug which is marked by the letter E or by the safety earth symbol or coloured green or green and yellow. The wire which is coloured blue must be connected to the terminal which is marked by the letter N or coloured black or blue. The wire which is coloured brown must be connected to the terminal which is marked by the letter L or coloured red or brown. Mac windows phone app not working.
Export units for certain markets have moulded mains plugs
fitted as standard. If the mains plug is fused fit a 5 amp fuse for the Alpha 3
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amplifier.
The AC supply inlet to the Alpha 3 amplifier uses a standard
I EC chassis mounting plug. The lEC line socket on your mains lead and the I EC plug on the Alpha 3 units are a tight fit; before first using an Alpha 3 amplifier it is therefore important to ensure that the socket is pushed firmly home into the chassis plug.
All inputs and tape outputs are via RCA phono connections.
For most equipment, the right hand channel output is
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indicated by a red plug, and the left hand channel by a black or white plug.
Disc Input This input is only suitable for use with turntables fitted with a
moving magnet or high output moving coil cartridge. If your turntable is fitted
with a low output moving coil cartridge you will need to use some form of
external step-up device (a transformer or head amplifier) between the cartridge and the Alpha 3. If your turntable is fitted with a flying earth lead, connect it to
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the ground terminal directly above the disc input. Nevertrv to use any other
audio equipment (such as a CD player or tape deck) through the disc input. The input will be overloaded and the sound will be badly distorted.
CD, Video and Tuner inputs These inputs may also be used as general purpose inputs for
sources with a line level output, such as a second tape recorder.
Tape input / output Signals can be received from the line output, and sent to the
line input of a tape recorder via these sockets.
Speaker outputs The speaker outputs will drive speakers within the range of
4 to 16 ohms impedance. The speaker binding posts will accept bare wires or 4 mm banana plugs. The speaker cable’s positive conductor must be connected to the red terminals, and the negative conductor to the black terminals. The positive conductor of the cable is usually marked as such, or
may have a ridge running down the length of the outer insulation.
connected to the red plug, and the negative conductor to the black plug. When using bare wires, strip back approximately 12 mm, (1/2') and twist the bare ends tightly. Unscrew the binding post and insert the wire underneath, then tighten. Check that no stray strands can short to other terminals, or to the chassis.
Operating two pairs of speakers
If desired, it is possible to operate two sets of 8 ohm
impedance (or higher) speakers with the Alpha 3 amplifier. Casio databank dbc-610 user manual. One pair is connected to the ’direct’ speaker terminals, and the second pair is connected