Pass Labs SR2 owner manual Position and adjustment

need to attach to the positive terminals of the power-amplifier. The negative speaker terminals on both pairs of speakers need to attach to the negative terminals of the amplifier. Maintaining proper signal polarity is critical with all bi-wired speakers. Failure to maintain consistent polarity between the speakers and amplifier will be cause all manner of ills from collapsed and diffuse soundstage to greatly marginalized frequency response. If bi-amping with a combination of inverting and non inverting power amplifiers then take care to wire speakers in correct acoustic rather than correct electrical polarity. (NOTE: Pass Laboratories amplifiers historically are all non-inverting designs.)

Position and adjustment

It is difficult to provide absolute instructions for speaker placement; but we can give suggestion as to good starting points. Optimal results with the SR-2 as with most speakers are frequently achieved with subtle changes of physical location.

Rule of the first however is that the room in which you listen is perhaps the most significant of all audio components in the reproduction chain. Speakers can be made to work satisfactorily in poor sounding rooms, but it is much easier to achieve success in an acoustically correct room.

The ideal room is neither overly reflective nor overly absorptive. In a good sounding room, the absorptive elements tend to be at reflection points of the sidewalls, floor, ceiling and space behind the speaker. High ceilings or at least absorptive ceilings lend themselves to more natural sounding spaces. Reflective floors, while not ideal are less disruptive typically than highly reflective ceilings.

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