Sunfire CRS-3 - Manual (Page 12)

User's Manual
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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
sub woof er. The bass will sound the
best when you are sitting in your
normal lis ten ing position.
The Cinema Ribbon Trio loud-
speakers are designed to be used
with a subwoofer to fi ll in the lower
frequency range. They are not
designed to accept 440 watts of power at
the full frequency range.
Your system should be designed so
that the Cinema Ribbon Trio loudspeak-
ers receive only the range above 80 Hz,
with a subwoofer to handle the frequen-
cies below 80 Hz.
Sunfi re home theater processors and
receivers have a bass man age ment sys-
tem 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
im proved, as subwoofers, such as
Sunfi re's powered True Subwoofers
are specially de signed for this
frequency range.
• The subwoofer can si mul ta neous ly
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
po si tion 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
re pro duce the low fre quen cy range.
This leads to a saving in room
space.
• Your amplifi ers do not waste power
re pro ducing the low frequency
range.
Using a subwoofer