Trinnov Audio Altitude 32, User Manual

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14 SETUP BASS MANAGEMENT
This chapter explains how to setup bass management in the Altitude 32 .
The Altitude 32 provides very flexible options that help you to configure the bass management of your
system in the most relevant way. You can specify how the lower frequencies of each channel will be
reproduced by one or more subwoofers.
In other words, individual speakers can be bass managed with any combination of subwoofers and
specific crossover frequencies.
NOTE:
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The Altitude 32 supports any number of subwoofers as long as enough physical outputs and
processing channels are available, therefore allowing for a maximum flexibility in the speaker
system design.
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Bass Management can be activated even if the system has not been calibrated. However, the
automatic time-alignment of the subwoofers is only performed after a calibration of the whole
set of speakers
IMPORTANT NOTE:
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For optimal results, the bass management should be setup manually based on the acoustic
measurements of the speaker responses in the room.
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The Bass Management results do not impact the Optimizer graphs.
14.1 OVERVIEW OF THE BASS MANAGEMENT
SETUP PROCEDURE
The recommended bass management setup procedure is as follows:
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Analyze the acoustical graphs of the speaker measurements in order to understand the low frequency response
of each speaker in the room;
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Decide whether bass management is necessary or not;
 If you decide to activate bass management:
1. Identify the High Pass Frequency that seems appropriate for each channel;
2. Configure the bass management options (Off, On, On + Lfe to lr);
3. Configure each channel to be bass-managed by one or more subwoofers.
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Last but not least: Save the preset.
The Bass management is divided in 3 different sections represented as 3 tabs which would be detailed in the following
chapter:
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Quick Setup: The Quick Setup is the default section of the Bass Management. It allows a global configuration
by applying values on several speakers and sub simultaneously (Not enable if Bass-Management is Off);
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Individual Setup: The Individual Setup provides the possibility to adjust the settings on each speaker and sub
individually (Not enable if Bass-Management is Off);
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LFE & Misc: This section gather both the LFE channel settings and various other parameters.