Specifications

ARCHITECT

Model 1600 SE

Model 1601 SE

Installer’s Guide

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A common problem with ampliers is their In-Rush current.

That is the extra power that the amplier draws from the AC wall

outlet when you turn on the amplier. A single 15 amp household

circuit may be ne for running a couple Brand X ampliers under

normal operation, but when they are rst turned on, the combined

in-rush current draw is usually enough to pop the house circuit

breaker. This is a major problem in areas where there are frequent

brown-outs or power uctuations. Our patented (U.S. Patent

#5,708,577) power supply design smoothly ramps up the Archi-

tect from a cold start. This keeps the in-rush current under control

and means you don’t have to over rate the AC feed just to keep

breakers from blowing during a brownout.

LIGHTDRIVE PROTECTION SYSTEM

This amplier is not only smart enough to protect itself, the

Architect™ Model 1600 SE Series ampliers also protects the

speakers. When the volume is turned up too high and an ampli-

er is pushed into clipping; the resulting distortion will probably

damage the tweeters in your speakers. AudioControl’s exclusive

LightDrive protection system eliminates the possibility of sig-

nal clipping in the Architect, even under the most demanding of

conditions.

What is clipping? That’s where the speaker output of an

amplier tries to exceed the available voltage of the amplier’s

power supply. When that occurs, the amplier can no longer

properly create the audio signal waveform and the audio output

becomes sharply squared off. This abrupt cutoff creates ultrason-

ics and high frequency distortion that is too much for a poor little

speaker like a tweeter to handle. LightDrive solves this problem

by continuously monitoring the output of the amplier channels.

If a channel begins to get near the limit of the power supply, it

immediately begins compressing the audio to reduce the volume

level. This happens so quickly that you’ll never even hear the

LightDrive system kick in…although your speaker will breathe a

sigh of relief because it did.

Normal Amplier

Amplier with Lightdrive

What’s Inside