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SV Sound 16-46PC+, 25-31PC+ Welcome, SV Subwoofers, Ron Stimpson Director, SVS Customer Service

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Welcome.

From the entire SVS team, congratulations on your purchase of a new standard in home theater and music bass!

Your sub isn’t some generic black box built someplace you can’t even find on a map. It’s made in Ohio, (as in USA), by home audio fanatics... like you. Designed, tested and assembled by hand, your SV Subwoofer is without a doubt one of the best investments you’ll ever make in bringing theater home.

We’ll help you to set up your sub right, and in no time, you’ll be giv- ing “demos” of your favorite DVDs or Laserdiscs to all your friends and neighbors (we pity them if you live in an apartment. Please, be kind!). This isn’t just a subwoofer after all, it’s a carefully designed audio component carefully tuned in our labs, by bass authority and “Sub-human”, Tom Vodhanel.

You’re unlikely to have heard, or felt, bass like this before, unless it was in a top-notch, commercial movie theater. Movies and music in your home will never be quite the same again. That’s a promise.

Already have a question about your sub? You might answer it by reading this manual, we think you’ll find it more informative than most. For even more detailed discussion about set-up topics check out our FAQs page at www.svsubwoofers.com. We touch on all the key points you need to know, and then some.

Maybe you just want to share a bit of bass news? Or perhaps you have a story about your SV Subwoofer to share with us? Maybe something we missed in our website? No matter, feel free to send a note to me at: rons@svsubwoofers.com .

It’s not often you can talk to the guys who made your audio compo- nent. In this case, we look forward to it.

Ron Stimpson

Director, SVS Customer Service

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SV Sound 16-46PC+, 25-31PC+ warranty Welcome, SV Subwoofers, Ron Stimpson Director, SVS Customer Service

Contents

Pages 4 - 7 Setup, integration, and calibration SVS “Powered Cylinder Plus” PC-PlusContents Pages 7 - 9 PC-Plusamp featuresRon Stimpson Director, SVS Customer Service WelcomeSV Subwoofers Page About your SV SubwooferSV Subwoofers Setup, calibrating and integration SV Subwoofers“Y” cable/splitter from More Setup, calibrating and integrationSV Subwoofers receiverPage “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 receiverSV Subwoofers Page 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 runSV Subwoofers Page 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” mainsSV Subwoofers Bassy demo scenes to die for SV SubwoofersMore Bassy demo scenes SV SubwoofersA Glossary of Home Theater Terms SV SubwoofersWarranty SV Subwoofers