Manley Stingray II Owner's Manual

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INPUTS, OUTPUTS, &THE STUFF ON THE SIDESINPUTS: Any of the three sets of stereo INPUT jacks can be used with any unbalanced RCA audio analog outputsfrom your source components. They are electrically identical and only differ in the numbers screened onto the chas-sis. If you have balanced outputs on your source gear, check with the manufacturer on how to best interface themwith unbalanced loads. Most balanced gear can deal with unbalanced loads by use of XLR to RCA converter plugs orspecial-made XLR to RCA cables. You’ll just need to check with each piece to see if it is best to ground Pin 3 or tofloat it (not connect it). Transformer coupled outputs can always drive unbalanced inputs by hooking up the XLR Pins1 & 3 grounded to the RCA shield, and XLR Pin 2 to the RCA center “hot” pin. If you have questions, check with themanufacturer.REC OUT / LOOP SEND: Here at the REC OUT, whatever input is selected on the input select switch will appearhere. So you can plug this Recording output into a Tape Deck or CD Recorder or Computer Sound Card analog inputto make recordings from whatever is playing and selected on your input selector. Note that this is not a buffered outputso if your tape deck or recording device has a low input impedance, or if it does funny things like become a dead shortwhen it is powered off, like some IC inputs on certain CD recorders we do know of, you will load down the input tothe Stingray II (or short it out altogether and get no tunes!) Basically if you hear any difference or problems when yourrecorder is plugged in, or if it is plugged in and powered off and sounding weird, then we suggest that you just plug inwhen you are actually recording something. You can also use this output to drive another preamplifier in another room,for instance. Or if you wish to use another preamplifier instead of the one built into the Stingray II, you can drive ithere and run its outputs back into the Loop return. Another use of this Loop Send is to insert an equalizer, or an exter-nal crossover to bi-amp. You would drive that external crossover here, and come back in to the Loop Return after thecrossover.Note: The REC OUT output is always active. TO ACTIVATE THE LOOP RETURN - Press the “Insert” button onyour Remote Control....Please, Ladies & Gentlemen, continue on to the next pagefor more information about the Stuff On The Sides...7