Simaudio P-7 Owner's Manual

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Owner’s Manual MOON Evolution Series P-7 Dual-Mono Preamplifier ...

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MOON P-7 Dual-Mono Preamplifier Important Safety Instructions 1. Read these instructions. 2. Keep these instructions. 3. Heed all warnings. 4. Follow all instructions. 5. Do not use this apparatus near water. 6. Clean only with a dry...

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MOON P-7 Dual-Mono Preamplifier Important Safety Instructions (cont’d) The lightning flash with the arrowhead symbol, within an equilateral triangle, is intended to alert the user to the presence of uninsulated “dangerous voltage” wit...

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MOON P-7 Dual-Mono Preamplifier Table of Contents Congratulations ................................................ 5 Unpacking........................................................ 5 Introduction .................................

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MOON P-7 Dual-Mono Preamplifier Congratulations! Thank you for selecting the MOON P-7 Dual-Mono preamplifier as a part of your music/cinema system. This preamplifier has been designed to offer state-of-the-art high-end performance in an elegan...

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MOON P-7 Dual-Mono Preamplifier Introduction Your MOON P-7 dual-mono preamplifier incorporates many significant design features to achieve its “world-class” level of performance. This is an abbreviated list of the more important features:...

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MOON P-7 Dual-Mono Preamplifier Front Panel Controls Figure 1: Front panel of MOON P-7 dual-mono Preamplifier The front panel will look similar to Figure 1 (above). The large display window normally indicates the current volume level ...

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MOON P-7 Dual-Mono Preamplifier Front Panel Controls (continued) The rotary “volume” control determines the gain setting, which ranges from ‘0.0dB’ (no output) to ’80.0dB’ (full output). This control does not function like a typ...

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MOON P-7 Dual-Mono Preamplifier Software Setup (continued) We will begin by walking through all 5 available options for the “B1” input: 1 To enter the Setup mode, begin by pressing the “Setup” button; “SETUP” will appear in th...

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MOON P-7 Dual-Mono Preamplifier Software Setup (continued) The MOON P-7 is equipped with two 12 Volt trigger outputs. When an input is assigned to a 12 Volt trigger, the device connected to the trigger will automatically start-up whenever y...

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MOON P-7 Dual-Mono Preamplifier Rear Panel Connections Figure 2: Rear panel of MOON P-7 Preamplifier The rear panel of the MOON P-7 dual-mono preamplifier will look similar to Figure 2 (above). There are three rows of input and outpu...

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MOON P-7 Dual-Mono Preamplifier SimLink™ The SimLink™ provides communication features between various MOON components. For example, if you were to connect the SuperNova to the P-7 Preamplifier via the SimLink™, pressing the X (play) ...

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MOON P-7 Dual-Mono Preamplifier Balanced Operation When using an unbalanced interconnect, the audio signal runs through both the center wire and the shield/ground wire. Any noise picked up by this interconnect (ie. nearby magnetic fields suc...

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MOON P-7 Dual-Mono Preamplifier Specifications Configuration ......................................................... Fully balanced, dual-mono Power Supply Transformers ..................................... 2 x 10VA (for audio); 1 x 10...