Hill Audio ANDANTE Serie Notice D'utilisation page 18

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channel of the source is played by the internal speaker and the right channel of the source is
sent out via the Link connector (16)
13. CH3 TRS Audio input. This is a pair of ¼" TRS sockets, providing a balanced stereo input.
The right channel socket is a switching type: as long as no connector is inserted into the right
channel, the right channel will automatically carry the left channel signal. If the signal
connected to this input is a mono signal, hence always insert this into the left channel socket.
Note that depending on the link mode switch (14), the stereo channels are either summed up
to a mono signal and played by the internal speaker, or the left channel of the source is
played by the internal speaker and the right channel of the source is sent out via the Link
connector (16).
14. Link Mode switch. Depending on the setting of this switch, the signal presented on the Link
output (16) can either be the same as the mono sum of the internal channels, so that the
further speaker connected to the Link output (16) will carry the exact same signal; or it can
be set to carry the complementary stereo channel so that an external speaker connected to
the Link output (16) carries the right stereo channel while the internal speaker caries the left
stereo channel.
15. Link Frequency Range switch. Depending on the setting of this switch, the link output (16)
may either carry the same frequency range as the internal speaker or only the range up to
120Hz, which would allow a subwoofer to be connected to the Link output the need of an
active crossover.
16. Link output connector. Tis is a mle XLR connector to supply a line-level balanced audio
signal to further Andante series speakers. Note that the signal carried by this output depends
on the settings of the Link Mode switch (14) and the Link Frequency Ranges switch (15), and
refer to the explanations provided there.
17. Thru output connector. Other than the Link Output (16), this male XLR connector supplies
a balanced signal exactly identical to the input signal connector to CH1. The main purpose is
to allow daisy-chaining of a number of Andante speakers, with every speaker receiving the
same, unprocessed signal.
18. Master Equalizer. This is a 2-band EQ, providing frequency response shaping to the mix of
channels 1 / 2 / 3.
19. Master Contour on/off switch. This switch determines whether a frequency response
contour filter is applied to the master signal or whether the master signal frequency response
stays flat. Once enabled, the choice of which contour filter is applied is made by the
Music/Speech Contour switch (20)
20. Music/Speech Contour switch. Once the master contour switch (19) is enabled, this switch
determines whether either a speech-adapted frequency contour filter (+ 8 dB 2kHz-6kHz) or
a music "loudness" contour filter (+ 9 dB @ 55Hz / + 4 dB @ 22.5kHz) is applied. The
Speech filter setting improves speech intelligibility but is less applicable to music replay,
while the Music filter setting is specifically designed for low-volume music replay where
natural perception of low and high frequency presence is reduced. The music filter is not
suitable for playing music at medium or high levels; in such case all contour filters shall be
disabled by means of the master contour on/off switch (19)
21. Output High Pass filter. This removes all frequencies below 120Hz with an 18dB roll-off
from the internal speaker. Main purpose is to remove low-frequency content when operating
with an additional subwoofer. This high-pass filter complements the low-pass filter (15) for
the Link output (16), so that the internal speaker does not carry content below 120Hz, while a
subwoofer connected to the Link output (16) carries all frequencies below 120Hz.