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Sonus Faber. Don't worry, the manual is in English.
Sometimes it's just a flimsy sheet of paper; other times it can be a mini book about audio. Which manufacturer provides its customers with the best owner's manual?
That honor goes to my Fostex F-12. As a musician, I record much of my own music "off the cuff," so I have used the F-12 more times than I can count. The owners' manual is among the best I've come across, covering everything from recording to overdubbing to playback and all points in between. There are wonderful schematics, as well. Cudos to Fostex.
Good as some manuals are, I've never run across one that answers most of the important questions I might have. Speaker manuals, for instance, should have complete impedance/phase angle graphs. Amp manuals should be more specific than referring to 4 or 8 ohm speakers, since we all know that one speaker manufacturer's 4 ohms is another's 8, and average ratings are less than informative if a speaker, say, goes below 2 ohms in the bass. A welcome inclusion would be suggestions on proven pairings with particular accessories like footers and wires.
I've had much gear in the past 30+ years. I would have to say that the best manuals I ever received were from Pass Labs. I can't really say that Pass is the best, perio, just the best I've seen. Rega was just about the worst, but I think the expectation is that the dealer is supposed to be your reference source.
I don't know who's would be best but I do know that a few manufacturers do provide their manuals on-line for anyone anywhere, on any product they made. Harman Kardon and Adcom provide thier customers with necessary PDF documentation on all of their product lines. Way to go!
Musical Fidelity, Magnepan, and my Lehmann Black Cube all came with good manuals. They were not especially large, but they were informative. Some manufacturers need to get someone with some writing skills to recompose their manuals, however. Some are written in gobbledegook.
When I worked at Sony and Proton in the '80s, I wrote many of the equipment instruction manuals... so I can say with some degree of irony and chagrin that I am responsible for many of those millions of VCRs helplessly binking "12:00! ... 12:00! ... 12:00! ..."
Most important to me are the manufacturers who offer manuals on their website to download as a PDF file. Since I live in China, the manuals I get are written in Mandarin and therefore of no use to me. Most of "the big boys" already offer this but not all (Jeff Rowland, Naim, Sonus faber... pitty.) However, the one manufacturer that takes this one step further by offering manuals in four different languages, is Linn.
Parasound's manuals have detailed graphics on "how to" and additional tech information about the product and the segment of the product. The Focal-JM Labs speakers manuals also have very detailed instructions about how to place speakers, including mathematics formulas.