PSB Speakers speakers quick start Additional Details on Connecting Your Speakers, Tower Speakers

OWNER’S GUIDE

Thank you for your purchase. Our speakers are designed to make high-performance sound easy to bring into your life. They have the wide frequency and dynamic range, natural tonal balance, and pre- cise spatial imaging needed to make both music and movies powerfully lifelike and enjoyable. All of our models match closely in tonal balance to allow easy mixing in home theater systems.

The quick-start instructions below will get you going. But we hope you will read through this booklet to help assure your maximum enjoyment.

I.QUICK-START GUIDE

C. Position your main speakers, as symmetrically as possible, at a comfortable listening distance—slightly closer to each other than they are to you. (For surround speakers, see later instructions.)

D. Using standard 18 gauge lamp “zip cord” wire or better, connect the Red (positive) terminal on each channel of your amp/receiver to a Red terminal post on that chan- nel’s speaker, and the Black (negative) terminal to a Black terminal post on the speak- er.

E. Setting the volume low beforehand, turn on your associated equipment, find a comfortable listening volume—and enjoy your favorite audio and/or video selections.

F. After you have settled in with your speakers, read through this booklet. Be sure to read “Protecting Your Investment.”

A.	Be sure power to your amplifier/receiver and other electronics is off before making	II.	ADDITIONAL DETAILS ON CONNECTING YOUR SPEAKERS
	connections.		A.	Important: Always turn off your electronic equipment before connecting speakers. If
B.	Install bumpers or feet with adjustable levelers or spikes.			you don’t, severe damage to equipment and/or your ears may result.
	1. Bumpers (Bookshelf and Center Channel Speakers)		B. Selecting Speaker Wire
	Attach the adhesive-backed bumpers near the corners of bookshelf and center			We recommend the following gauge of standard two-conductor wire for the wiring dis-
	channel speakers, to protect the finish of the speaker and the finish of the furni-
				tances specified; if you prefer, you can use heavier (lower-gauge) wire.
	ture beneath.
	2, Molded Feet and Stabilizers, Adjustable Rubber Levelers and Adjustable Spikes			Under 25 ft (7.5 m):	18-gauge – (1.0 mm) (lamp cord)
				25-50 ft (15 m):	16-gauge – (1.3 mm) (heater cord)
	(Tower Speakers)
				50-100 ft (30 m):	14-gauge – (1.6 mm)
	Screw the supplied molded feet into the threaded inserts located in the corners
				Over 100 ft (>30 m):	12-gauge – (2.0 mm)
	of the speaker bottom. In Image Series models, speaker spikes for carpet use or
	threaded rubber isolation levelers for hard floor use can be inserted into the feet.		C	Connecting In Phase
	In other models, spikes or levelers go directly into the threaded inserts in the
	pedestal base on the bottom of the speaker rather than into feet.			Connect speakers identically to your amplifier or receiver on each channel—Red
	a) Carpet Use			amp/receiver terminal to Red speaker terminal, Black to Black. This will ensure that
				the diaphragms of the speakers on both channels move forward and backward togeth-
	Screw four spikes with four lock nuts into the inserts located in the four
				er (“in-phase”), rather than in opposition (“out-of-phase”). In-phase connection pro-
	corners of the speaker bottom, Locate the speakers and adjust to the
				vides maximum clarity and bass, while out-of-phase connection results in frequency
	desired height (higher for thicker carpet) and tighten the lock nuts with the
				cancellations and produces thinner and less distinct sound—with less bass, vague
	wrench.
				vocal quality, and no solid center image. To help insure the proper connection, the
	b) Hard Floor Use			two separate conducting wires in a standard two-conductor speaker cable are coded
				in one way or another to be distinguishable from each other. (The jacket of one wire
	Screw four threaded rubber isolation bumpers with four lock nuts into the
				may be ribbed or marked with “+” signs, or one wire under the insulation may be a
	inserts located in the four corners of the speaker bottom. Adjust and tight-
				different color from the other.)	Use this wire-coding, together with the amp/receiver
	en the lock nuts with nut wrench.
				and speaker color-coding, to be sure you are connecting the same wire of a given pair

to a like-coded terminal at both ends of your connection.

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