AVID HIFI Ingenium P&P User manual

Ingenium P&P
Turntable
USER MANUAL

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Topic Page
Welcome 3
Cauon 3
Component List 4
Placement 5
Seng-up: 6
Posion the Chassis 6
Inserng the bearing ball 6
Aaching the drive hub 6
The Motor 7
Aaching the plaer 7
Changing the plaer speed 7
Counterweight 8
Connecng to your system 8
Using the clamp 8
Starng the turntable 8
Troubleshoong 9
Specicaons 10
Declaraon of Conformity 10
Warranty 11
Table of Contents

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Congratulaons on purchasing your new AVID Ingenium P&P.
By using the highest quality materials and being assembled to the highest industry
standards, your AVID Ingenium should provide you with many years of trouble-free
enjoyment.
Please read this manual carefully to ensure you understand all the features and
operang funcons available.
Cauon
• Turntables, tonearms and cartridges are fragile items, please take extreme care when
moving, seng-up and using them.
• When cleaning, use only a so, lint-free cloth. Take special care not to damage the
cartridge and its delicate stylus assembly.
• Always clip the tonearm back into its rest when changing records, to minimise the risk
of damaging the cartridge.
• Keep all packaging—you will need them if you need to return the item for service or
upgrade at a later date.

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Component List:
Before assembling your Ingenium please check that, along with this manual, you have all the
parts as listed below. If any items appear to be missing, please contact your dealer immediately.
Chassis with arm/cartridge Hub/bearing Assembly
Tonearm Counterweight Bearing Ball
PlatterDrive belt
Motor
Record Clamp

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Placement:
By their nature, turntables are sensive devices. They are designed to retrieve the smallest vibraons and
convert them to sound. Unfortunately this means that they are also very good at picking up vibraons you
don’t want to hear, such as the footsteps of someone walking past the turntable.
Most turntable manufacturers aempt to minimise this problem—the Ingenium P&P uses a combinaon
of its high mass along with its compliant feet to create an eecve isolaon system.
These features can only do so much. Where, and on what you place the turntable is of even greater
importance. With this in mind, we would make the following observaons regarding the placement of
your turntable:
1: The turntable must be on a level, stable plaorm:
A rigid shelf or table is acceptable, a dedicated support is generally best
Keep the unit away from other high power devices—power ampliers tend to have large
magnec elds and are also a source of heat, both of which can adversely aect
the performance of your turntable.
Lightweight supports generally work best, as they store less energy, and therefore put
less unwanted energy back into the turntable—a wall mounted shelf is oen best, as
this is unaected by common oor vibraons.
2: Avoid placing the turntable near the loudspeakers—this could aect the sound quality, and even
induce feedback when played at high levels.
3: Posion the turntable where you can get easy access to it, and its component parts—you may need
to remove the plaer from me-to-me to gain access to the motor, so pung it in a cupboard may
prove impraccal.
4: Do not leave the turntable exposed to heat and direct sunlight, this may aect the cosmec nish of
the unit over me, and will potenally cause warping of records that are on the plaer.

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Posion the chassis
The main chassis comes ready-assembled, with its feet, arm
and cartridge in place. Place the chassis on the surface you
intend to use the turntable. Posion the chassis so that the
tonearm and cartridge are easy to access, and there are no
objects that may interfere with the free movement of the arm.
Inserng the bearing ball
Before assembly, clean the conical recess on the top of the
sha using a so lint-free cloth. Place the bearing ball into the
recess. The bearing ball must be in place before connuing,
otherwise permanent damage will be done to the sapphire.
NEVER PUT ANY LUBRICATION ON THE SAPPHIRE OR
BEARING BALL AS THIS WILL CAUSE DAMAGE.
Aaching the drive hub
Remove the clamp from the bearing assembly by unscrewing it
with an an-clockwise acon. Store the clamp safely. Carefully
lower the bearing assembly over the sha—do not allow the
assembly to drop onto the sha, as this will shaer the
Sapphire bearing. Once the bearing is in place, the bearing
should inially spin freely, but once fully lubricated will cause
drag, slowing the hub quite quickly—this is normal.
Seng-up:
Prepare the area where you plan to locate the turntable—make sure you have plenty
of space around it to give you easy access.
We recommend the following sequence to assemble your Ingenium P&P turntable.

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The Motor
The motor needs to be located to the rear of the chassis. The
centre of the motor spindle should be approximately 97mm
(3 ¾”) away from the centre of the hub assembly.
Take the drive belt, and place it around the hub, and then
stretch it over the motor pulley.
EVERY TIME YOU FIT THE DRIVE BELT—MANUALLY ROTATE
THE DRIVE HUB BY HAND TO ALIGN THE DRIVE BELT.
Aaching the Plaer
The plaer ts over the hub assembly. Gently lower the
plaer over the hub assembly being careful to align the centre
hole with the hub.
Changing the Plaer Speed
The motor pulley has two grooves into which the belt can be
placed—the larger diameter groove is for playing 45RPM
records, and the smaller plays at 33.3RPM.
Any me you want to change the turntable speed, simply
remove the plaer (push down on the spindle, so that it
disengages from the plaer) and reposion the drive belt,
replace the plaer and rotate manually to align drive belt.
The turntable speed has been calibrated at the factory. You
can accurately check the speed of the plaer by using a strobe
disk. A small speed adjustment is possible by altering the
distance between the motor and the drive hub.
Stretching the belt slightly will slow the plaer, whilst
releasing the tension will introduce an increased speed.
However, if the belt is too loose, it will start to slip, resulng in
a wowing sound. Conversely, if the belt is to ght it will cause
the speed will slow. Some experimentaon in this area is
required for crical adjustment.

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Counterweight
The Ingenium comes with a cartridge already installed. Before
playing any records, you must aach the counterweight; this
ensures the cartridge is played at the correct tracking weight.
Using a twisng acon, gently push the counterweight onto the
rear of the tonearm unl it reaches the stop, and cannot be
pushed further—the tracking weight is now correctly set.
Connecng to your System
This turntable uses a convenonal Moving Magnet cartridge,
which is designed to work with the majority of ampliers with a
built-in phono stage. If your amplier does not have a phono
stage, you will need to acquire an external device. AVID produce a
range of suitable phono stages.
Please consult the amplier or phono stage instrucons supplied
by the manufacturer to correctly t the tonearm cables. Also note
the earth connecon is integrated into the tonearm lead and
there is no separate earth connecon lead required.
Once you have connected your turntable to your amplier, the
turntable is ready to be used.
Using the Clamp
Your Ingenium comes with a record clamp—this is designed to
minimise any warps in the record, but also to help control
vibraons within the record that adversely aect sound quality.
The clamp should be used at all mes.
Simply place the record over the spindle and then screw the
clamp onto the spindle—do this carefully to avoid cross
threading which will cause damage.
Do not use excessive force—hand-ght is more than adequate.
ALWAYS STOP THE TURNTABLE WHEN CHANGING THE RECORD
Starng the Turntable
You start the turntable by using the switch on the mains cable.

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TROUBLESHOOTING
The Ingenium P&P is intentionally a straight-forward turntable, making set-up and use very simple.
Occasionally though, you may come across a problem, if so, please read the following to help find a
solution
Fault Soluon
Turntable plaer not
rotang
Check that the mains plug is correctly ed and switched ‘on’, and that the
in-line mains switch is also ‘on’.
Check that the drive belt is ed correctly around the hub and motor pulley
and that the motor is correctly posioned.
Check that the Plaer is free to turn, and that no foreign object may be
jamming it.
No, or very quiet sound Check that the tonearm leads are connected to the amplier, and that the
correct input is selected.
This turntable requires an amplier with a built-in phono stage, or an oponal
external one. It will not funcon if connected directly to a standard line-level
input.
Loud humming noise
coming from speakers
This is probably the result of an earth issue, and is best resolved by discussing
the issue with your dealer.
Turntable running
slightly fast or slightly
slow or varying
Adjust the tension of the belt by moving the motor. If the speed randomly
varies, try removing the belt and cleaning it with a dry lint-free cloth to
remove any contaminants.
Distorted sound Carefully, clean the stylus—use a stylus cleaning brush to remove any build
up of dust and u. Remember the stylus will eventually wear, and should be
replaced (with normal use, every one to two years). Using a worn stylus will
result in poorer sound quality, and eventually permanent damage to your
records.
If you ever have any issues with your AVID equipment that you are unable to resolve yourself, please,
in the rst instance, contact your dealer.

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Specicaon
POWER CONSUMPTION
Input voltage (region dependent) 120V or 240V AC
Power Consumpon (Max) <4 Was
DIMENSIONS AND Weights
(W x D x H) : 500 x 420 x 265mm
Weight: 9 Kg
DECLARATION OF CONFORMITY
EC Declaraon of Conformity 06 December 2017
We declare that our Ingenium P&P turntable conforms to direcves
and harmonized internaonal standards:
EMC (89/36/EEC) Electromagnec conformity
BS EN 60065: 1994
Safety requirements for mains operated electronic and related apparatus for household
and similar use.
CENELEC HD21/22 Flexible cables and cords
EN 55020: 1988 Electromagnec Immunity
EN 55013: 1990 Electromagnec Emissions
C. Mas Director AVID HIFI Limited