Avalon Acoustics Sentinel manual Table of Contents Introduction

		Table of Contents
1	Introduction		5
		Overview	5
	1.1	Low Noise Floor	6
	1.2	Coherent Energy Transfer	7
	1.3	The Active Reference System	8
2 Unpacking Instructions			9
		Introduction	9
		Contents	9
	2.1	Room Preparation and Verification	10
	2.2	Crate and Box Placement for Unpacking	11
	2.3	Opening the Crates	12
	2.3	Opening the Sub Amplifier Crates	14
3 System Set-up			15
		Preparation	15
		Removing Apex‘ Couplers from Set-up Blocks	15
		Left / Right Channel Matching	16
	3.1	Lower Speaker Cabinet Set-up	17
	3.2	Upper Speaker Cabinet Set-up	18
	3.3	Crossover Cabinet Set-up	21
	3.4	The Felt Anti-Diffraction Mask	22
		Orientation of the upper Felt Mask	22
	3.5	Sub Amplifier Set-up	23
4	Wiring Instructions		24
		Introduction	24
	4.1	Wiring and Field Interactions	25
		Inductive field effects	25
	4.2	Connecting Upper Speaker Cabinet to Crossover	26
	4.3	Connecting Speaker Cable to the Crossover	27
	4.4	Connect Speaker Cable to your Amplifier	28
	4.4	Connecting Subwoofer to the Sub Amplifier	29
	4.5	Connecting Preamplifier to the Amplifiers	30
		1. Interconnect Y-cable at the preamplifier	30
		2. Two outputs at the preamplifier	30
		3. Loop-Out from the Subwoofer Amplifier	30
5 Break-in Period			31
6	Maximizing Performance		32
		Break-in	34
		Separate Left / Right Amplifiers	34
		Felt Anti-diffraction Masks	34
		Room Treatment and System / Listener Position	35
		Toe-In	35
		Apex‘ Couplers	35
		First Reflection Points	36
		Corner Treatment	36
7 Care of Your Avalon Loudspeakers			37
		Cabinet	37
		Crossover Cabinet	37
		Felt Anti-diffraction Masks	37
		Drivers	37
8 Warranty		.......................................................................................................................	38
		In the Event of a Problem	38
		Warranty Statement	39