Verity Audio Tamino Monitor - Manual (Page 5)

Tamino Monitor OWNER’S MANUAL
R.3.0 March 10, 2004
VERITY AUDIO PAGE 5
The tweeter has been specifically designed to give extended,
natural and resonance-free reproduction of the harmonic
content of all musical instruments. These units have been
integrated with a very carefully designed crossover that allows
each driver to deliver its full potential. Moreover, all
components used are carefully computer-matched and indexed
to enable optimum sound staging performance.
Packing and Unpacking
Before they left the factory, your Tamino loudspeakers passed
an exhaustive quality control procedure to guaranty their
genuine state. Please carefully observe the unpacking or
packing instructions included with the owner’s manual for
maximum product safety. Once your Tamino cabinets will be
unpacked, inspect them carefully for any physical damage. If
any transit damage can be noticed, please notify your dealer
immediately and request the name of the carrier so a written
claim can be initiated.
Your Tamino comes in a double cardboard box or in an ATA
metal case (optional) complete with all the necessary
protection accessories. For transportation purposes, we
strongly recommend you to keep and store all your packaging
hardware
.
Unless the carrier is notified promptly and all the shipping
cases are available for inspection, the right to claim can be
forfeited.
Installation
This section depicts how to assemble and connect the Tamino
monitor. To identify a proper location for the installation of
your Tamino, please refer to the Room Placement section of
this manual or follow the recommendations of your dealer.
Once the speakers are properly installed, connect them to the
amplifier by using quality speaker cables. Make sure the
polarities are respected at both ends and that your cables are
installed in the proper direction. The positive input is identified
by a red dot located on the connector plate.
For vacuum tube equipment that has multiple output
impedance taps, the four-ohm taps should provide the best
interface with the Tamino.
Room Placement
Indoors, acoustic intelligibility is of great concern for a variety
of reasons. It requires low background noise levels and “good”
acoustical design. In any room, the reverberant sound pressure
level increases as the acoustic power increases and decreases
as sound absorption in the room increases and / or sound
power flows from the room. The sound field in a room is
composed of two parts, the direct field and the reverberant
field.
The complex theories of physical acoustics, the uncertainties
in predicting the property variations of both natural and
manufactured room materials, and the none negligible effects
of painting, sealing, bracing, furring, and draping, all keep the
specification and prediction of room acoustics from being an
exact science. Adding together, loudspeaker characteristics, the
auditory personal taste, and ergonomics, makes, by practical
means, the equation impossible to solve. The frequent need to
evaluate the final result by listening rather than by purely
quantitative methods gives acoustical tuning a somewhat
subjective aspect.
Nevertheless, knowing the Tamino’s capability will be your
major asset in establishing the best setup for your loudspeaker.
Here are a few simple rules that will guide you. A good setup
will give you fast transients from bottom-end to top-end, proper
image height and a wide and deep soundstage.
Having that in mind, the following guidelines are based on our
own experience with the Tamino. We recommend you to start
with these suggestions and later on (after getting familiar with
your Tamino) bring your own modifications that will optimize
your setup.
First, the distance from the rear wall to the speaker front baffle
of your speaker (midrange center) should be equaled to the
height of your room times 0.62. Then follow the following
instructions according to your own room characteristics:
1. If your sitting position is within ten feet (3 meters) from
your loudspeakers
Your setup will be according to the equilateral principle.
To form an equilateral triangle, the angle between you
and your two speakers shall be 60 degrees. If you cannot
evaluate it, simply measure the distance from the center
of your speaker front baffle to your listening position.
Then, adjust the distance between your two loudspeakers
to the same value.
2. If your sitting position is more than ten feet (3 meters)
away from your loudspeakers
The width of your room divided by 3.6 will give you the
distance from the side wall to the center of the front baffle
of your speakers.
We suggest that you start with the speakers aligned directly at
you. Then open them slowly until you get the best soundstage
without losing too much center-stage definition. In most cases,
the left speaker should be aligned toward your left shoulder
and the right speaker should be aligned toward your right
shoulder. Opening them will improve your image width and
closing them will improve your image center definition.
Conversely, if you wish to broaden your listening area, tow
them in even more until they are aligned with your opposite
shoulder.