Further adjustments

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and your foot will start to tap, and you will sway to the music. This is basically what we term “PRAT” – or pace, rhythm and timing.

With the woofer towers positioned in the recommended placement behind and outside the midrange tweeter panels, low bass in the room should not be a problem. Should you have too much bass, simply turn the volume down on the remote control. Too little, and the opposite will apply.

In general, the low-pass filter and the bass volume goes in opposite directions. With higher bass volume, a lower frequency for the low- pass is needed. And with lower bass volume, a higher frequency is needed for the low-pass.

In some problematic rooms a resonance may develop at one or two frequencies that is unnatural to the music. By moving the woofer towers closer to the rear wall or farther from the rear wall, the resonance may be reduced at the listener’s position. There are no absolute rules concerning problematic rooms, so do not be afraid to experiment with best woofer placement.

Ultimately, it is all about balance. You have a number of controls at hand with which to adjust the bass response, the low-pass filter frequency and woofer volume. You can also move the speakers closer together (for better coupling), and also move the woofer towers closer together, or further apart, or even move them closer to a corner of the room for more bass.

One trick that we have found to always work is NOT to have the woofer towers placed symmetrically in the listening room. When you have the woofers equidistant to the walls, there will be wall- loading which will increase the volume of some frequencies in the bass and mid-bass.

Place the left and right woofer towers equidistant from the midrange towers. However, have one woofer tower further to the side of one midrange tower, and have the other woofer tower further to the back of the other midrange tower. It may look strange, but the principle here is to position the midrange/tweeter towers for the best imaging and soundstage, and the woofer towers for the smoothest and best bass and ambience retrieval.