MartinLogan E2 manual Speaker Placement Fine Tuning, Hard Sound, Tweaking the Room

Speaker Placement (Fine Tuning)

Toe in the ESL/Transition towers so the listener is looking at the inner 1/ 3 of the ESL panels. Sitting at the listening posi- tion, hold a flashlight under your chin and point it at each speaker. The reflection of the flashlight should be 1/3 of the way out from the inner edge of the panel (see figure 68).

Viewed from the listening position, the 2-inch space between the transition tower and ESL frame should appear the same on both channels (see figure 66). When you are happy with the final placement of the ESL/Transition towers, carefully remove the glider feet and install the ETC spikes.

Hard Sound

If the speaker sounds hard, there are two options:

1Change the jumpers on the passive high-pass to turn up the lower midrange (see page 26).

2Try tilting the speaker back (raise the front feet of the unit). The listener should be straight on with the bot- tom 1/3 of the panel when listening.

Tweaking the Room

When you are finished setting up the Statement e2, you should turn the unit up very loud and check the room for rattles. If any are found they should be eliminated.

ESL Tower Spike Installation

When you are happy with the placement of the ESL/ transi- tion towers, we recommend that you install the ETC spikes. This procedure requires at least two people—one to tip the tower and one to install the spikes.

1With one person standing behind the tower carefully tip the tower back.

2Remove the glider feet and the screw the 2 front spikes into place making sure to thread the large black rubber washer onto the spike post.

3With one person standing in front of the tower carefully tip the tower forward.

4Remove the remaining glider foot and the screw the back spikes into place making sure to thread the large black rubber washer onto the spike post.

Figure 68. Ideal placement of the ESL/Transition towers. Figure 69. Statement spikes.

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