Summary of Pyxis
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Pyxis handbook leema acoustics pyxis reference standard pre-amplifier.
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Pyxis 2 contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2 introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....
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Pyxis 3 front panel controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15 standby button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...
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Pyxis 4 no part of this documentation may be reproduced in any form whatsoever or be stored in any data retrieval system without prior written permission of the copyright owners. This documentation is supplied on an as-is basis. Information contained within this documentation is subject to change at...
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Pyxis 5 introduction introduction congratulations on your purchase of a leema pyxis reference standard precision pre-amplifier. The leema range of products has been painstakingly engineered in the united kingdom to offer genuine state-of-the- art performance. Partnered with suitable equipment, leema...
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Pyxis 6 very important very important before connecting your new leema pyxis to the rest of your system, please ensure that all other devices are powered off. All required sources, destinations and lips cables should also be connected before inserting the mains power lead and powering for the first ...
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Pyxis 7 construction design philosophy pyxis employs a totally balanced internal topology from end to end. This even includes the eq. The leema antila cd player multi-dac architecture inherently produces a balanced output in the digital domain due to the way the converters are configured and this is...
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Pyxis 8 connecting lips lips stands for “leema intelligent protocol system”. This is an open architecture (i.E. The architecture is published to enable third party suppliers to support it) communication stream that connects the control processors in each unit and passes information between them, all...
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Pyxis 9 leema system overview connected together which will result in considerable damage. If you are considering bi-amping, please contact your dealer or leema electro acoustics ltd. For advice. Bi-amping and lips in a simple, stereo bi-amplified system the connections simply go from the pyxis to t...
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Pyxis 10 analogue connections analogue connections input connections phono> the phono pre-amplifier stage is optional. When this option is not fitted the sockets are replaced by a blanking plate. Both mm (moving magnet) and mc (moving coil) phono (rca cinch) sockets are provided. After determining t...
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Pyxis 11 analogue connections cd> the pyxis’ unbalanced (phono/cinch sockets) cd input should be connected directly to the analogue outputs (usually marked left/right and colour coded white/red) of the cd player. Do not connect any available digital outputs from the cd player to any the pyxis analog...
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Pyxis 12 analogue connections the av direct input is provided for those people using a dedicated external multi-channel processor equipped with a volume control over its outputs. Sources with fixed output levels such as cd and dvd players must not be connected here. When av is selected, the volume s...
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Pyxis 13 digital audio connections preamp outputs the preamp outputs are fed with the signal from the selected monitor source. Connections from here go to the power amplifier(s). The l & r phono (cinch) connectors should be connected directly to the power amplifier(s) analogue inputs (usually marked...
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Pyxis 14 lips connections s/pdif co-axial s/pdif (sony/philips digital interconnect format) input and output is available on two phono (cinch) sockets. S/pdif input is clocked to the incoming digital stream and can accept standard sampling rates and bit depths up to 192 khz 24 bit. Note : if an enco...
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Pyxis 15 front panel controls front panel controls standby button the blue led in the centre of the stand-by button is illuminated when the unit is in stand-by mode. Pressing the stand-by button once or pressing the power button on the remote control will power the unit on. The blue led ring around ...
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Pyxis 16 front panel controls source selection switch two source modes are available. When one of the blue leds in the left-hand arc is lit turning the input source selection switch cycles sequentially through the pre-amplifier’s listen output sources. Pressing the knob changes mode and the current ...
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Pyxis 17 front panel controls volume control smooth and sensitive, the volume control is in fact a high quality rotary encoder which controls a burr brown precision attenuator under microprocessor control. The ring of blue leds around the volume control act as a visual indication of the volume setti...
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Pyxis 18 front panel controls centre buttons eq when lit eq is active. Pressing the button toggles between eq bypass and eq active. Invert when lit the absolute phase of the pyxis output is inverted. I.E. Both left and right channels are phase reversed. Pressing the button toggles invert on and off....
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Pyxis 19 remote control remote control.
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Pyxis 20 remote control button functions stand-by brings pyxis into and out of stand-by mode av direct engages and disengages av direct mode volume down > volume up setup first press enters setup mode with bass selected. Subsequent presses cycle through treble, balance and gain then back to bass. A ...
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Pyxis 21 audio specifications under audio specifications under construction.