User's Manual
7
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.
. 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
subwoofer. The bass will sound the
best when you are sitting in your
normal listening position.
The loudspeakers are designed to
be used with a subwoofer to fill in
the lower frequency range. They
are not designed to accept 00 watts of
power at the full frequency range.
The Sunfire High Resolution Series
subwoofers are a perfect match for these
surround loudspeakers. There are a vari-
ety of HRS subwoofer models to choose
from to match your system.
Ideally, your system should be
designed so the surround loudspeak-
ers receive the range above 95 Hz, with
a subwoofer to handle the frequencies
below 95 Hz.
Sunfire home theater processors and
receivers have a bass management 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
improved, as subwoofers, such as
Sunfire's powered HRS subwoofers
are specially designed for this
frequency range.
•
The subwoofer can simultaneously
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
position 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
reproduce the low frequency range.
This leads to a saving in room
space.
•
Your amplifiers do not waste power
reproducing the low frequency
range.
Using a subwoofer
