Contents
Contents
SVS “Powered Cylinder Plus” PC-Plus
Pages 4 - 7 Setup, integration, and calibration
Pages 7 - 9 PC-Plusamp features
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Welcome
Ron Stimpson Director, SVS Customer Service
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About your SV Subwoofer
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Setup, calibrating and integration
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More Setup, calibrating and integration
“Y” cable/splitter from
receiver
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“Large”. Selecting the size accordingly will ensure bass goes to most appro- priate speakers, and use the subwoofer correctly too. Also, make sure your subwoofer is turned “ON”. We don’t mean “is your subwoofer amplifier on” that’ll be important later too! but rather, is your receiver sending a bass signal to your sub amp? This can only happen if you say “Yes” or “ON” to the “subwoofer” setting of any typical Dolby Digital/DTS capable receiver
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keep input distortion to a minimum, however you should not be set much lower than -5dB recommended earlier. Why? Some adjustment room is needed to tweak down the bass levels using your remote control. If your subwoofer reading is still too high then turn down the sub’s amp volume a little with each run
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Phase. Think of bass waves as conflicting or enhancing each other, depending on the timing of their arrival at your listening location either together, or not. Since some of your room’s bass might come from main, center and/or surround speakers, as well as your sub, getting these bass wave forms to arrive in a complementary, enhancing fashion is the difficult job of the phase knob. Essentially, this control varies the timing of the bass waves coming from the sub. The effect of bass cancella- tion will vary by volume and frequency in your room, and no one setting is likely to ever be “perfect”. One simple technique to optimize phase is to find a nice “bassy” loop such as the menu of “Godzilla” and measure the loop’s bass response at vari- ous bass SPL peaks. As the loop runs, vary the phase knob. Where you see the most response on a given bass passage is the phase setting providing the least bass cancel- lation in your room for the frequencies of the demo loop you chose. Adjusting phase is mostly a concern in dual sub configurations or systems with “Large” mains
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Bassy demo scenes to die for
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More Bassy demo scenes
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A Glossary of Home Theater Terms
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Warranty
