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Limited Warranty
Dear customer,
Welcome to B&W.
This product has been designed and manufactured to the highest quality standards. However, if something does go wrong with this product, B&W Loudspeakers and its national distributors warrant free of charge labour (exclusion may apply) and replacement parts in any country served by an official B&W distributor.
This limited warranty is valid for a period of five years from the date of purchase or two years for electronics including amplified loudspeakers.
Terms and Conditions
1The warranty is limited to the repair of the equipment. Neither transportation, nor any other costs, nor any risk for removal, transportation and installation of products is covered by this warranty.
2This warranty is only valid for the original owner. It is not transferable.
3This warranty will not be applicable in cases other than defects in materials and/or workmanship at the time of purchase and will not be applicable:
a.for damages caused by incorrect installation, connection or packing,
b.for damages caused by any use other than correct use described in the user manual, negligence, modifications, or use of parts that are not made or authorised by B&W,
c.for damages caused by faulty or unsuitable ancillary equipment,
d.for damages caused by accidents, lightning, water, fire heat, war, public disturbances or any other cause beyond the reasonable control of B&W and its appointed distributors,
e.for products whose serial number has been altered, deleted, removed or made illegible,
f.if repairs or modifications have been executed by an unauthorised person.
4This guarantee complements any national/regional law obligations of dealers or national distributors and does not affect your statutory rights as a customer.
How to claim repairs under warranty
Should service be required, please follow the following procedure:
1If the equipment is being used in the country of purchase, you should contact the B&W authorised dealer from whom the equipment was purchased.
2If the equipment is being used outside the country of purchase, you should contact B&W national distributor in the country of residence who will advise
where the equipment can be serviced. You can call B&W in the UK or visit our web site to get the contact details of your local distributor.
To validate your warranty, you will need to produce this warranty booklet completed and stamped by your dealer on the date of purchase. Alternatively, you will need the original sales invoice or other proof of ownership and date of purchase.
Owner’s manual
Introduction
Thank you for choosing B&W.
Please read this manual fully before unpacking and installing the product. It will help you to optimise its performance.
The speaker is primarily intended for home theatre installations, but is equally at home with
B&W maintains a network of dedicated distributors in over 60 countries who will be able to help you should you have any problems your dealer cannot resolve.
Unpacking (figure 1)
•Fold the carton flaps right back and invert the carton and contents.
•Lift the carton clear of the contents.
•Remove the inner packing from the product.
We suggest you retain the packing for futureuse.
Check in the carton for:
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Positioning
All Applications
The speaker may be used in either vertical or horizontal orientation. However, vertical orientation offers better horizontal dispersion and is to be preferred in most cases as this leads to a more stable image over a wide listening area.
Horizontal orientation can be used with little detriment to the imaging if the speaker is used in the front centre position of a home theatre installation where the listeners are within 15˚ of the centre line – equivalent to 0.8m at a listening distance of 3m.
The speaker has a reflex port at the rear. Leave at least 10cm clear space between the back of the speaker and the wall behind, to allow the port to operate properly.
Fix the 4
feet accordingly.
Home Theatre (figure 2)
As a front centre speaker:
If using a projection television with an acoustically transparent screen, place the speaker behind the centre of the screen. Otherwise position it directly above or below the screen, whichever is closest to ear level. Align the front of the speaker approximately level with the screen.
As a front left and right speaker:
As an initial guide:
•Make the height of the tweeter approximately the same as the centre speaker.
•Space the speaker between 0.5m and 1m from the side of the screen.
As a surround speaker:
There are two ways of presenting surround information. You can either attempt to get good imaging in all directions or go for a more diffuse, ambient effect. The choice is made more difficult by the fact that some movies are produced assuming a diffuse surround presentation and others attempt to portray more precise imaging.
In both cases position the speakers to the sides and behind the listeners.
For more precise imaging, mount the speakers at or just above ear height and point them at the listening area. (figure 3)
Do not expect the imaging to the sides and rear to be as precise as at the front. Phantom images between the speakers are fairly easy to create with sustained tones, but fricative or percussive sounds can tend to localise more at the speakers. It is also difficult to get an ideal balance between front and surround speakers for more than one row of listeners.
For a more diffuse effect, mount the speakers higher and point them along either the rear or side wall. (figure 4)
2-Channel Audio (figure 5)
Mount the speakers so that the tweeters are approximately at ear level.
As an initial guide:
•Position the speakers and the centre of the listening area approximately at the corners of an equilateral triangle.
•Keep the speakers at least 1.5m apart to maintain
•Keep the speaker baffles at least 0.5m clear of walls.
Stray magnetic fields
The speaker drive units are magnetically shielded such that the stray magnetic field outside the boundaries of the cabinet, except the front, is too low to cause distortion of the television picture in the vast majority of cases.
There are, however, some extremely sensitive televisions – some that even have to be adjusted according to their alignment with the earth’s magnetic field. If you have a problem, first degauss the television set with the speaker in place. Some have a button especially for this purpose. If not, switch off the set at the mains for
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