SV Sound PC-Ultra Parametric Equalizer, First

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Parametric Equalizer. Important enough and challenging enough, this feature gets its own section! “PEQ” allows you to tame a “peak” in your room’s response. Peaks are quite common, especially in large rooms or ones where your sub is far from your listening position. NOTE: A Sound Pressure Level meter is a must for proper use of the PEQ, so get one before you tackle this control. TO DISABLE THIS CONTROL: Set the “LEVEL” control in the Parametric EQ feature grouping until it stops on “MIN” — thus ensuring you do not inadvertently cause poor frequency response until such time as you properly configure the PEQ.

First you might ask yourself, “why use a PEQ?” The reason is quite simple. Your room. See, most times even a superlative subwoofer which measures very evenly (we say “flat”) in an open domain (no reflective boundaries) will not measure the same in your home theater or music room. Instead, colliding bass waves can build up and cause a “peak”. This is where a parametric equalizer helps out. A PEQ is an