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A room with carpet and drapery is a soft or highly absorbent location. A crowded room is also highly absorbent. These locations require greater emphasis of high frequencies.
A room with paneled walls and a bare or tiled floor is a hard, nonabsorbent location, which requires greater low frequency emphasis.
Regardless of the room acoustics, the high and low frequency characteristics of your speak- ers can influence the equalizer settings as much or more than the room acoustics.
What The Equalizer Does
The equalizer controls the tone for seven specific tone ranges. The frequency for each range is printed next to each equalizer control.
IMPORTANT
Each of these controls can limit the maximum volume for its range by as much as 75%. This means that if a control is set to minimum, that the maximum power available for that range is only about 32 watts. If all of the graphic equalizer controls are set to minimum, then the jukebox will produce no more than approximately 32 watts of its 125 watt capacity per channel.
Equalizer Settings
These equalizers work equally well for stereo and mono sound and may be used with single and dual volume controls.
The settings will give a good sound for a room with the matching acoustics (highly absorbent, moderately absorbent, nonabsorbent). Set the right and left channel equalizer controls to the positions that match the room described (or most closely described). These settings may be just right, or they may not sound 100% right to you. If the sound is not satisfactory, make small changes in the settings until the sound is just the way you want it.
If the Room or Speaker System Requires a Trade-Off
The equalizer limits the volume of all of the audio frequencies. Therefore, to achieve the best sound for a specific room or set of speakers, you may find that most of the graphic equalizer controls need to be turned down. In this situation, the overall jukebox volume may not be adequate. If you find that you have this situation, increase each graphic equalizer control slightly until the jukebox produces the required volume.
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