GETTING THE MOST FROM YOUR SONANCE SILHOUETTE SPEAKERS

When properly installed and operated with appropriate components, your Sonance Silhouettespeakers will provide many years of entertainment pleasure. Your Sonance Silhouette speakers are capable of delivering pristine sound quality, unparalleled clarity, and precise imaging. Your system also can sustain reproduction of substantial continuous sound levels, with a large dynamic performance margin. To realize the full potential of your new speakers, please read all instructions before starting the installation process.

Pre-installation is critical to achieving the maximum performance of your Sonance Silhouette speakers. Factors such as the location and height of seating and location of video monitor dictate the proper placement and direction of speakers. As with any fine speaker, good room characteristics are necessary to ensure the maximum sonic performance of which the Sonance Silhouette is capable.

Remember that the wall is part of the sound reproduction system. To the degree possible, the listening room should be symmetrical both in overall shape, and with respect to furnishings (especially wall treatments and hanging art). The best listening rooms exhibit low intrusion of ambient noise. In any event, the Sonance Silhouette speakers should not be mounted with less than two feet of unobstructed wall on either side (i.e., not in columns).

Optimum horizontal placement of left and right speakers is six to ten feet apart and at least 18" from side walls (see Figure 2 below). All measurements are at the center of the tweeter.

18" min.

 

from

 

side wall.

 

 

Right

6' to 10'

Center

Range

 

 

Left

18" min.

 

from

 

side wall.

 

Slightly behind

Ear Center

Room Layout, top view.

 

Surround

 

Surround speakers

 

may be mounted

 

slightly behind the

 

listener's ear.

 

An alternate position

40"

may be in the rear

walls spaced

Ear

identical with the

from

front left and right

 

floor

speakers.

Due to weight,

 

 

Sonance Silhouette

 

speakers are not

 

recommended for

 

ceiling mounting.

 

Surround

8' - 12' from LCR speakers

Figure 2. In-wall speaker locations for optimum speaker performance.

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