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McIntosh Mac 1700 Owner's Manual

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  • Page 1 MAC 1700 OWNER'S MANUAL...

  • Page 2: Table Of Contents

    To insure your enjoyment please read and carefully fol- low these instructions. The time spent will make It possible for you to enjoy thousands of hours of musical enjoyment. If you are in a hurry read page 4 first. This gives you a brief outline of what each control and indicator does.

  • Page 3: General Description

    MAC 1700. Sixteen silicon planar transistors are used in the preamplifier. Silicon The MAC 1700 is a stereo receiver. There are three planar transistors are used because of their high easy to use top notch stereo components in one small thermal stability, low noise, and superior high fre- convenient package.
  • Page 4 The tuner section uses six tubes and two transistors. MAC 1700. The switch will turn your MAC 1700 on Tubes as RF amplifiers still give maximum sensitivity again when the temperature has decreased to a value with the greatest overload protection.

  • Page 5: Specifications

    TECHNICAL FEATURES AND SPECIFICATIONS FOR MAC 1700 BASS CONTROLS: ± 1 8db at 20 cycles, with friction FM TUNER SECTION: AMPLIFIER SECTION: clutch for independent adjustment for each channel. USEABLE SENSITIVITY (at 100% Modulation: 2.5 µV POWER OUTPUT: TREBLE CONTROLS: ± 1 8 d b at 20,000 cycles with [I.H.F.

  • Page 6: If You Are In A Hurry

    1 Input Selector . . . Aux . . . for any device con- nected to the AUX input on the back, TAPE . . . listen to playback from a tape recorder. FM AUTO , . . listen to FM Stereo or Mono broadcast automatically .

  • Page 7: Cabinet Installation

    Four screws into the bottom of the MAC 1700 through the mounting shelf hold the unit firmly in place. Due to the weight of the MAC 1700 we recommend the unit rest on a wooden shelf of at least ½" thickness. Unless the MAC 1 700 is ade- quately held in place vertical mounting should not be at- tempted.
  • Page 8 MAC 1 700 with ref- erence to the shelf behind the cabinet panel. To in- sure the MAC 1700 will rest on the cabinet shelf, follow these instructions carefully. Mark the back of the cabinet panel with a pointed instrument through the two "...

  • Page 9: Installation-Connections

    TAPE MONITOR input. CONNECTING A TAPE RECORDER WITH THREE HEADS Connect the tape outputs of the MAC 1700 to the high level inputs on the tape recorder. This will make it possible for you to record from the MAC 1 700. Connect the tape recorder outputs to the TAPE MON inputs on the MAC 1 700.

  • Page 10: Antenna Connections

    The "Left" loudspeaker wires are connected to the two center screws on the barrier strip marked "LEFT OUTPUT". The "Right" loudspeaker wires are connected to the two center screws on the barrier strip marked "RIGHT OUTPUT". The MAC 1700 auto- matically matches the impedance. ANTENNA CONNECTIONS A convenient flexible indoor FM dipole (300 ohm) antenna is supplied with the MAC 1 700.
  • Page 13 The following section gives you a detailed explanation of all the controls and their functions. It will tell you how to adjust your MAC 1700 for maximum enjoyment. Customer Service McINTOSH AUDIO COMPANY...

  • Page 14: Front Panel Information

    FRONT PANEL INFORMATION TUNING DIAL SCALES—The MAC 1700 has two dial scales. The megacycle scale indicates the position of FM stations in the 88 to 108 megacycle FM band. The linear division of the 0-100 logging scale makes it easy to return to a station using a logging scale number.
  • Page 15 . . . out of the phone jack. With the switch in the SPEAKER ON position the tape recorder into the tape monitor inputs on the MAC 1700 . . . then through the power amplifier of the MAC 1 700 and to loudspeakers will remain in the system.
  • Page 16 BALANCE Use the MAC 1700 BALANCE control to balance unequal volume in the left and right channels. Right . . . turning the control to the right ac- Left . . . turning the control to left accents the cents the right channel by reducing the left left channel by reducing the right channel channel output.

  • Page 17: Balancing Your System

    There are two factors in balancing. One is unequal program loudness on the left and right channels of the program source. The other is basic system balance. The control marked BALANCE on the MAC 1700 is used to cor- rect both of these problems.

  • Page 18: Enjoying Your System

    The TAPE MONO switch lets you monitor the quality of tape recording made from the MAC 1700 during the process of recording. When the TAPE MONO switch is in the IN position it will play the sound from the tape as it passes the playback head, a moment after it is recorded.

  • Page 19: Customer Service

    Your MAC 1700 stereo receiver will give you many years of pleasant and satisfactory performance. If you have any questions CUSTOMER SERVICE concerning the operation or maintenance of this receiver please contact: Mclntosh Audio Company 2 Chambers Street Binghamton, New York 13903...
  • Page 20 Precision craftsmanship and painstaking at- tention to finest accuracies make the MAC 1 700 meet high standards. MCINTOSH AUDIO COMPANY 2 Chambers St., Binghamton, N.Y. MADE IN U.S.A. Phone-Area Code 607-723-3512 Design subject to change without notice.

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