Atlantic Technology High Performance Compact owner manual Placement and Operation, Home Theater

Center channel should be within 2' of front speaker tweeter height

Left surround speaker

Surround speaker should be slightly behind and above listening position

2 feet above	Right surround
ear level
	speaker
Ear level

Placement and Operation

Speaker/room interactions have a huge impact on the sound of the system. Moving the speakers just a little bit can make a dramatic difference in what you hear. The compact design of Theater One’s components provides you with maximum placement flexibility while creating a large, seamless, acoustically accurate soundfield for your home theater or music system. The best placement of the speakers will vary from room to room. Use the following placement guidelines and the illustration above as a starting point. But also feel free to experiment. In fact, it may be beneficial to hook up the speakers with some extra wire and to simply drape the wire across the floor before installing the speakers permanently. This will allow you the opportunity to move the speakers around easily so you can find the best sonic and visual locations.

Home Theater

Please note that the primary goal of a good home theater is not to make you believe that you are in a movie theater. It’s to make you believe you are in the action occurring on the screen. For a home theater system, place your Compact Theater One LR speakers on either side of the television. The three front channel speakers (Compact Theater One LRs and C) are magnetically shielded so they will not interfere with your television picture. The left front and right front speakers should be far enough apart that you get a good stereo image, but not so far apart that the sound seems to come directly from the speakers, distracting you from the picture. You may chose to “toe” the LR speakers in, aiming them at the prime listening position. This can be particularly useful if the front LR speakers are fairly far apart.

The Compact One C should be placed directly above or below your television. It is important that the speaker is centered on the screen, not off to the side.

Note: Some surround sound decoders and receivers offer a choice of “Normal” / Small or “Wide-band / Large” modes for the center channel.The Compact One C is designed to be used in the “Normal / Small” mode. Additionally, some discrete digital home theater systems allow you to select between “Small” and “Large” speakers throughout the system. Since the Compact Theater One system has been designed to work only with an active subwoofer, please set all the speaker positions to “Small.”

Surround Effects

The Compact One SR’s size and shape allows greater flexibility in placement than most conventional surround loudspeakers. Due to their monopole design it’s preferable to locate the SR Surround speakers behind the prime listening position, at least

2 feet above ear level when seated. The goal is to aim the front of the speakers in such a way that their output is not directed right at the listeners and therefore not easily localizable. For example, placing them on the sides of the room, behind the listening position and aimed across at each other, is a good starting point.

Note: The surround speakers are intended to re-create the ambient sounds taking place in the movie scene.Throughout most of a movie or TV program you may not be directly aware of the surround speakers presence. It’s OK if you don’t seem to be hearing the surround speakers directly.Try to avoid the trap of turning the surrounds up so that you hear them all the time.The result will be a much less believable surround sound experience. Remember that the signal they receive is 99% subtle sounds that should make you believe you’re in the action up on the screen.