Owner`s manual

Important note: Make sure that the volume on your surround processor

is turned down before changing the input name on

your Nº32 to SSP. When the preamp effects this

change, it abdicates its control over the volume of your

front left and right speakers, allowing the surround

processor to handle it instead.

naming an input “EQ”

The EQ name also deserves special mention: if your loudspeaker re-

quires a dedicated equalizer for proper operation (or if you have any

other reason for using an equalizer much of the time), you may con-

nect the outputs of the equalizer to an input named “EQ.”

By “recording” the source you wish to listen to (that is, selecting it on

the record path, e.g., when the record out LED is lit), and listening to

the EQ input (that is, selecting EQ with the main selector, e.g., when

the record out LED is not lit), you will be able to run all signals

through the equalizer prior to listening to them. This is usually prefer-

able to simply placing the EQ between the preamp and the power amp,

as most equalizers perform best at a (fixed) line level—which is what

they will receive in this hookup.

Since, in this scenario, you would spend most of your time in the

record path (selecting the source to be equalized) rather than the

monitor path, we have enabled the volume control function in the

record path when the input selected on the monitor path is named

EQ.

Note: When listening to the output of your equalizer, you

will not be able to select “EQ” on the

record out path,

since that would set up a potentially dangerous

feedback loop. The “EQ” input is intentionally omitted

from record output list.

setting input gain

Each input in the Nº32 can be set for one of four gain settings: 0 dB, 6

dB, 12 dB, or 18 dB. The concept is to use as much gain as an indi-

vidual source may require in order to drive the power amplifier to ad-

equate levels, without introducing unnecessary gain that might result

in a distorted signal.

In the past, the Mark Levinson Nº26 and Nº26S preamplifiers offered a

single gain adjustment to effect this change globally; now, for the first

time, this setting can be optimized for each individual input. This helps