North Star Essentio Operating Manual

Manual is about: 192kHz/32bit USB DAC

Summary of Essentio

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    Essensio operating manual north star design ® essensio 192khz/32bit usb dac.

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    Rev. 1.0 july 10

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    Warning: to reduce the risk of fire or electric shock, do not expose this appliance to rain or moisture. The lightning flash with arrowhead symbol, within an equilateral triangle, is intended to alert the user to the presence of uninsulated “dangerous voltage” within the product’s enclosure that may...

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    Important safety instructions please read all instructions and precautions carefully and completely before operating your north star design ® essensio. 1. Always disconnect your entire system from the ac mains before connecting or disconnecting any cables, or when cleaning any component. 2. This pro...

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    Introduction welcome to the north star design “family” and congratulations on your purchase of what is unquestionably one of the world’s finest audio digital-to-analogue converter. With its combination of features, precision electronic circuitry and accurately machined chassis components throughout,...

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    Installation locate the essensio as close as possible to its final installation point. Allow access to the rear panel for making connections. Front & rear panel function controls before attempting any system interconnection, please familiarize yourself with the front and rear panel controls of the e...

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    Front panel 1 stand-by pushbutton when in stand-by mode, push to switch in operate mode. When in operate mode, push to switch in stand-by mode. Warning: always put in stand-by the dac before switch-off the unit by rear panel switch. 2 stand-by led indicator the stand-by led show the operating mode o...

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    9 optical input (opt 1) use this input to connect the dac to the digital output of a source (cd transport, dat tape, dvd player), using a digital fiber optic cable (not shipped with the equipment). 10 optical input (opt 2) use this input to connect the dac to the digital output of a source (cd trans...

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    Driver installation the essensio, in usb mode configuration, need proprietary drivers to be installed in the pc/mac. Drivers are available for different operative systems: pc xp, vista/win7 (both 32 and 64 bits) mac snow leopard 10.6, leopard 10.5, tiger 10.4 pc installation 1) connect the essensio ...

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    With foobar2000 you can also use the iphone/ipod touch like a remote control if you have a wifi network with pc and iphone/ipod touch connected 1) install the remote software on iphone/ipod touch 2) download the dll foo_touchremote from http://wintense.Com/plugins/foo_touchremote 3) decompress the f...

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    Driver installation disk notes.

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    N o r t h s t a r d e s i g n north star design s.R.L. Via lenin, 132 56017 san giuliano terme (pi) italy phone/fax: +39-050-859166 e-mail: info@northstar.It web: www.Northstar.It.