User Manual
Page 9
Adjusting the sound
A loudspeaker is only as good as your listening room allows it to be. First of all is the room acoustics which is infl uenced by dimensions and
build materials. Secondly is the amount freedom it off ers for the best possible placement of your speakers inside the room.
To accommodate some of the above compromises and to make installation and sound tuning of your new FM speaker easier and with
a better result, we have provided the speakers with sound adjustments. The FM-8 off ers three levels of each setting options; “Focus” and
“Detail”. Make sure that both options are set to “Neutral” before you start adjusting the positioning of the speakers in your listening room.
• Step 1: Initial setup:
Set up the speakers according to your wanted listening position, following the basic rules of the previous chapter “Placing the
speakers”.
• Step 2: Adjusting the setup:
The basic setup might not give you the best possible sound quality.
Select a few but well known pieces of your favourite music that can
help you determine when it sounds just right. Depending on how the
speaker interacts with your room the sound will be diff erent. Here is a
basic guide to better positioning and sound tuning:
Bass:
Moving the speaker away from rear wall and/or a corner will
clear out the bass and make the sound leaner and less involving. If you
are experiencing to have not enough bass, moving your speaker closer
to the rear wall and/or corner might help. If you keep having too much
bass due to limited possibility of increasing the distance between rear
wall and the speaker, we have supplied a pair foam plugs that can be
used to block the rear faced bass refl ex port. We do not recommend
this solution unless everything else has been tried without success.
Soundstage:
If your soundstage is unclear, the singer might be a bit
vague, woolly and too far behind the rest of the instruments in the
band – try to angle the speakers more directly towards you listening
position. If the sounds stage and instruments are a bit compressed in
the middle of the speakers, try a little less toe-in and let the speakers
play more straight into you listening room. Please note that even a
small adjustment of a few centimetres may make a huge diff erence.
• Step 3: Adjusting the speaker:
When the optimum speaker position has been found, you still have
a way to adjusting the speaker a bit more. The three setting of each
“Focus” and “Detail” on the backside of the speaker may be applied to
get the last bit of performance from the setup.
“Focus” settings:
If you lack a bit of “Focus” in the soundstage set this
to “High”. If voices and high pitched instruments are too much and
creates listening fatigue over longer periods set it to “Low”.
“Detail” setting:
This adjusts the level of high frequencies and
overtones of any instrument. A natural level of overtones will enhance
the listening experience, pleasantly and relaxed. Too much detail will
draw the minds focus from the main part of the music, to some high
frequency details. Test each option to fi nd the most suitable setting for
your specifi c setup.
Focus
Detail
Neutral
Low
Focus
Detail
Neutral
Low
Focus
Detail
Neutral
Low
Both Focus and Detail is set to Neutral
Both Focus and Detail is set to High
Both Focus and Detail is set to Low
Summary of Contents for FM-8
Page 1: ...FM 8 User Manual...
Page 2: ...Gato Audio FM 8 Page 2...
