Opalum Furniture Sound System User manual

Owner’s guide
How to use your new Opalum Furniture Sound System

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Table of contents
1. The Opalum Furniture Sound System 3
2. Controls and connectors 4
3. The status indicator 5
3.1 Modes of the status indi ator 5
4. Short circuit protection 6
5. Connecting the system 7
6. Using the Opalum Furniture Sound System
7.1 On/off 8
7.2 Volume offset adjustment 8
7.2 Bluetooth 8
7.4 IR learning 8
7.5 Sour e sele t 9
7.6 Audio profiles 10
7.7 Fa tory reset 10

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1. The Opalum Furniture Sound System
The Opalum Furniture Sound System is a Bluetooth enabled a tive stereo speaker system
onsisting of two speaker boxes designed to fit your BoCon ept furniture. The speaker box
playing the right hannel is a tive. It ontains the built-in amplifiers, power supply, input
onne tors and user ontrols. The speaker box playing the left hannel is passive. The two speaker
boxes are inter onne ted by a spe ially designed able to ensure failsafe mounting and good and
lasting onne tivity.

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2. Controls and connectors
1. Status indicator
Indi ates the urrent status using different olors and flash modes. For
details see se tion 3.
2. Standby
Use this button to turn on the system or to put it into standby. This
button is also used to enter ertain “Programming modes”.
3. Volume up
This button an be used to in rease the volume offset up.
4. Volume down
This button an be used to de rease the volume offset down.
5. Bluetooth pairing
Use this button to start the Bluetooth pairing pro ess, whi h link your
Bluetooth enabled devi e to the system. This ensures that only devi es
linked to the system will a tually be able to use the system.
6. IR sensor window
The IR sensor is pla ed behind this window.
7. Power socket
Mains power onne tion. Make sure onne tor is firmly atta hed.
8. Analog input
Conne tion for any analog sour e, like for instan e TV (headphone or
analog out), MP3 players and similar devi es.
9. Digital input, coaxial*
Conne tion for digital S/PDIF equipment (e.g. omputer, CD, DVD
TM
,
Blu-ray
TM
, flat s reen TV, et .) using oaxial abling. (These are
trademarks of their respe tive owners).
10. Digital inputs, optical*
Conne tion for digital S/PDIF equipment (e.g. omputer, CD, DVD
TM
,
Blu-ray
TM
, flat s reen TV, et .) using opti al fiber (TOSLINK
TM
). (These
are trademarks of their respe tive owners).
11. Speaker link
Conne t the supplied speaker link able to this onne tor to onne t the
two speaker boxes.
Front panel:
Rear panel:
* NOTE:
Use un ompressed stereo PCM audio data only. Data rates of 44.1, 48, 88.2 and 96 kHz are supported in 16 and 24 bits. Both 176.4
and 192 kHz in 16 and 24 bit are also supported using digital oax input. If onne ting a multi- hannel sour e (su h as a TV, DVD
player, omputer, et .) setup this sour e to output un ompressed two hannel (stereo) PCM data.

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3. The status indicator
The LED on the front of the system indi ates the urrent system status. Its olor indi ates the
urrent input sour e and its intensity the system status.
3.1 Modes of the status indicator
To indi ate spe ial events the indi ator uses different light modes.
Normal operation
•Dark oStand by or OFF
•Steady oWhite, rear input ( oax, opti al or analog)
oBlue, Bluetooth input
•Flashing oRed, ERROR (see se tion 4 Short ir uit prote tion)
Programming mode
•Steady oGreen, OK response
oRed, ERROR response
•Flashing oWhite, programming mode
oYellow, IR learning
oRed, fa tory reset

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4. Short circuit protection
To prote t from shorted or faulty wired speaker ables the system is equipped with short ir uit
prote tion. If a problem is dete ted, the amplifier is automati ally turned off and the status
indi ator starts flashing red. To re over from short ir uit mode you may go through the following
steps:
1Remove mains power.
2Che k the able and onne tor for short ir uits. When problem is solved re onne t.
3Apply mains power.

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5. Connecting the system
The two speaker boxes are onne ted using the supplied speaker link able. The speaker link able
is an ordinary stereo able with RCA plugs in both ends, so it doesn’t matter whi h end of the
able you onne t to whi h speaker box. To ensure polarity you need to mount the plugs orre tly
however; so that the onne tors marked “B” are onne ted, and the onne tors marked “G” are
onne ted.
Then onne t the sour e needed. Three options are available: analog, digital opti al and digital
oax. If you use analog input, then digital opti al and oax are disabled. If you use digital opti al
and signal is dete ted, digital oax is disabled. See “1 Controls and onne tors” for des ription of
the individual input onne tor.
Mains power may only be onne ted after the speaker link able has been installed. The mains
power onne ted is pla ed on the ba k of the right side speaker. There is no mains swit h. All daily
use is operated through the buttons on the front panel or by using a remote ontrol.

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6. Using the Opalum Furniture Sound System
7.1 On/off
The Opalum Furniture Sound System has automati on/off. This means that whenever a sour e
starts playing the system will swit h on. Likewise the system will go to standby automati ally if no
sour e is playing for more than 5 minutes. Manual on/off is still possible, just press the Standby
button on the front, or use the IR standby ommand if su h has been learned. In this ase the
automati on is disabled. In standby the system onsumes less than 0.5 watt.
7.2 Volume offset adjustment
Even if the volume is normally ontrolled by your sour e, like for instan e your TV or mobile
phone, the Opalum Furniture Sound System offers a volume offset adjustment feature. This
feature allows you to adjust the overall amplifi ation level in the same way as an ordinary AV
re eiver would do. In reasing the volume offset will make your system play louder, but ould also
mean that the lowest volume setting on your sour e still ould be too loud for a quiet living room
late at night. De reasing the volume offset will make your system play lower, but ould also mean
that the highest volume setting on your sour e isn’t enough to get your party ro king. So, either
adjust depending on the need of the moment, or find an adjustment that suites your need the
best. The adjustment is stored automati ally and sin e it’s the amplifi ation that is adjusted, it will
affe t all sour es.
7.2 Bluetooth
To onne t your mobile devi e or PC to the Opalum Furniture Sound System using Bluetooth you
first need to pair the devi es. The Opalum Furniture Sound System will only pair if it is put into
pairing mode. Do this by pressing the “Bluetooth pairing” button on the front. While the status
indi ator flashes blue, the system is in pairing mode. The pairing mode will terminate
automati ally when a devi e pairing is ompleted, or after a timeout of 5 minutes. Please see the
user guide of your devi e for how to pair. The Opalum Furniture Sound System is identified by the
name “Opalum FSS xx:xx”, where xx:xx is a unique number. After pairing is ompleted the
Opalum Furniture Sound System remembers the devi e, and vi e versa – so next time you just
simply onne t, no pairing needed.
7.4 IR learning
The Opalum Furniture Sound System an learn to understand IR ommands from most remote
ontrols. You de ide whi h buttons to use for whi h fun tion and simply use the IR learning
fun tion to tea h the Opalum Furniture Sound System. These are the fun tions that you an
assign buttons to:

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Sequen e number Button name Fun tion
1 Volume up To in rease the volume. This is basi ally the same as
pressing the volume offset button on the front of the
speaker.
2 Volume down To de rease the volume. This is basi ally the same as
pressing the volume offset button on the front of the
speaker.
3 Power on/off To ontrol the power state.
The buttons are learned in sequen e starting from 1 in above list. You don’t need to learn buttons
for all fun tions as the learning fun tion an be dea tivated at any time.
The IR learning fun tion is a tivated this way:
1. Make sure the unit is ON
2. Now press and hold the Standby button for more than 2 se onds
3. The LED now flashes white.
4. Now press the BT pair button for less than 2 se onds. When IR learning is a tivated the
status LED starts flashing yellow.
Learn a ommand:
5. Point your remote toward the IR eye. It’s in the enter of the ontrol panel on right side
speaker (above the LED).
6. Press the button you want to learn on e and observe the LED:
a. Steady green -> OK.
b. Steady red -> Command was NOT learned.
7. Wait until the LED flashes yellow again and then repeat for next button to be learned or
retry the learning of the button whi h just failed. In either ase repeat from step 5.
Done learning:
8. If buttons for all 3 fun tions was learned the system will automati ally reboot and return to
normal operation mode. If you only want to learn some ommands, you simply terminate
the learning fun tion by pressing the BT pair button for less than 2 se onds when done
learning the ommands you need.
7.5 Source select
The Opalum Furniture Sound System doesn’t require any sour e sele t. Instead sour es are
priorities and will start playing a ordingly. The priorities are as follows:
1. Bluetooth
2. Analog
3. Digital opti al (will only play if nothing is onne ted to the analog input)
4. Digital oax (will only play if nothing is onne ted to the analog input and no signal on
digital opti al input).

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7.6 Audio profiles
The Opalum Furniture Sound System is built for use in BoCon ept furniture’s, for instan e a
abinet or in a bookshelf. Some abinets have loth abinet doors, some doesn’t. To give the
optimum, the system has been equipped with profiles to mat h these different usages. To sele t
the right profile do the following:
1. Make sure the system is ON
2. Now press and hold the Standby button for more than 2 se onds
3. The LED now flashes white
4. Now press the either VOL+ or VOL-
a. VOL+ if the speakers are pla ed behind loth abinet doors
b. VOL- if the speakers are NOT pla ed behind loth abinet doors
5. The profile has been set when LED turns green
6. The system returns to normal operation and LED turns white
7.7 Factory reset
The fa tory reset fun tion is to bring the unit ba k to the initial settings set by the fa tory. All
learned IR ommands are erased. Profile for pla ement below TV will be sele ted. Master volume
will be set to 60%.
The reset fun tion is a tivated by:
1. Make sure the unit is ON
2. Now press and hold the Standby button for more than 2 se onds
3. The LED now flashes white.
4. Now press the BT pair button for more than 5 se onds. When Fa tory reset is performed
the LED starts flashing red.
5. Reset has been ompleted when the ontrol hub reboots (LED turns OFF and then ON
white).