Subwoofer Location

The best location for a single subwoofer can be found by following these steps:

1.Place the subwoofer on your couch or favorite easy-listening chair.

2.You can then either run a calibra- tion (noise) signal through it, or play some of your favorite music samples with heavy bass.

3.Walk around the room, standing in all the positions where you might be able to place the subwoofer. This is usually somewhere close to the corners of the room. Try locations fairly close to the front loudspeakers, and try crouching down low.

4.Find the place in the room where the bass output from the subwoofer is most even. Shut things down and install the subwoofer there.

5.This is the best position for the subwoofer. The bass will sound the best when you are sitting in your normal listening position.

Using a subwoofer

The Cinema Ribbon loudspeakers are designed to be used with

a subwoofer to fill in the lower frequency range. They are not

designed to accept 400 watts of power at the full frequency range.

Your system should be designed so that the Cinema Ribbon loudspeakers receive only the range above 100 Hz, with a subwoofer to handle the frequencies below 100 Hz.

Sunfire home theater processors and receivers have a bass management system that allows you to redirect the bass frequency range of each channel to the subwoofer. The advantages are :

The overall bass of the system is improved, as subwoofers, such as Sunfire's powered True Subwoofers are specially designed for this frequency range.

The subwoofer can simultaneously play the bass from all of the loud- speakers, in addition to it’s own low frequency effects channel (LFE).

There is no loss in perception of the position of movie or music sound effects, as the ear cannot easily locate the position of bass sound sources.

Compact loudspeakers can be used for front, center and sur- rounds, as they do not have to reproduce the low frequency range. This leads to a saving in room space.

Your amplifiers do not waste power reproducing the low frequency range.

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