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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 fash- ion is the difficult job of the phase switch. Essentially, this control varies the timing of the bass waves coming from the sub. You can tweak this endlessly and not hear much difference. But don’t despair, the effect of bass cancellation 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 various bass SPL peaks. As the loop runs, you can make switch the phase knob. Where you see the most response on a given bass passage is the phase setting providing the least bass cancellation in your room (for the frequencies of the demo loop you chose).
Line In/Out. Use one of the sub’s “Line In” jacks to connect the subwoofer to the out- put jack of your receiver/processor. Feeding just one input is enough. If you are using a conventional amp and/or a stereo setup you can use the “Line Out” jacks to send sound (filtered of bass information) back to your system amp. A simple RCA to RCA cable is all you need.
Auto On. Your Powered Cylinder allows itself to be in an “auto on” mode… or on all the time. With the former setting (the switch in the “Auto” position) your subwoofer will “sense” that a DVD or CD etc. has begun and switch on immediately (the hard power switch mentioned below must be on naturally). A few minutes after a movie, the Auto On light will turn Red, switching the sub back off. When running (and sensing a signal) the Auto On LED will be green. Sometimes, with very low listening levels, your subwoofer might not get enough of a bass signal from your surround sound processor to “trip” the
Crossover Enable Switch. If you allow your DD/DTS
High level inputs/outputs. Not commonly used today, but binding posts are there in case you don’t have
Power. This heavy duty
A/C connection. Plug your sub into a dedicated A/C outlet. “Convenience” outlets of typical receivers often don’t provide the needed current. Avoid them.
Fuse. User replaceable, contact SVS if you have trouble finding a replacement.
