OTELLO
R2.0
OWNER’S MANUAL
June 2020
VERITY AUDIO
PAGE 7
the sidewalls and the ceiling. Placing diffusors or absorbers at their
image location can help control their amplitude. Your dealer can be of
good assistance in properly helping you with this matter.
We usually privilege diffusion over damping, keeping a proper in-room
reverberation time. An overly damped room will quickly sound dull or
lose its liveliness.
If you choose to work with a specialized room treatment device, the
manufacturer’s instructions should be followed.
Ancillary Equipment
Your new OTELLO is an extremely precise instrument that can clearly
reveal the qualities of your upstream equipment. Your OTELLO perfor-
mance will be closely related to the excellence of its associated equip-
ment. Subsequently, it would be wise to invest in high-quality ancillary
equipment, as your enjoyment will be consequently rewarded.
The OTELLO shows an easy impedance load for most power ampli-
fiers. It has been evaluated with a wide variety of power amplifiers and
has shown consistent results with quality solid state and vacuum tube
equipment. Superb performance can be realized from either design.
The high quality binding posts on the Verity Audio OTELLO accept
banana plugs, spade connectors or bare wires. For best results, we re-
commend the use of spade connectors.
When choosing speaker cables, experimentation is the best way to find
out which ones will be the most satisfying in your installation. Your
Verity Audio Dealer can be of assistance in making recommendations.
Power Handling
The power tolerance of a loudspeaker is correlated to its maximum
voice-coil heat dissipation and to its maximum cone displacement.
These parameters are in turn stimulated by the time, amplitude and
spectral characteristics of the applied musical energy. At low frequen-
cies, the maximum cone displacement is normally reached before
maximum voice-coil temperature.
With the OTELLO’s transducers, because of their superior ventilation
system, the voice-coils will most likely never reach critical tempera-
tures. But low frequencies played at high levels can ask for a larger
cone displacement than allowed by the driver suspension. A driver rea-
ching its maximum displacement will not break unless this situation is
maintained for an inordinate period of time. Before a driver reaches its
maximum displacement, its distortion level will increase greatly and
will become audible. So when a speaker starts sounding bright and
hard or if any “cracking noise” can be heard, just lower the level until it
sounds comfortable again.
The OTELLO has to be played unexpectedly loud before any occur-
rence of compression or distortion appears.
Cabinet Resonance
Cabinet resonances are controlled in an unique way. Their amplitudes
are lowered and their frequencies are increased becoming more direc-
tional and less likely to reach the listener. In an average furnished liste-
ning room, this stray energy will be quicly dissipated. Also, traveling
high-frequency sonic waves attenuate faster than their low frequency
counterpart. A unique cabinet bracing arrangement can break a wall
resonance into multiple higher frequency resonances that are not har-
monically related. By doing so, their amplitudes are greatly reduced.
The cabinet construction tolerances are so tight that only compu-
ter-controlled tooling can cut panels with acceptable accuracy.
The cabinet rigidity lowers, even more, any chances of coloration
caused by unwanted vibrations. Special materials are used to ensure
stability of the cabinet in any acoustical environment.
Care of the Finish
The high quality finishing applied on the OTELLO is composed of high-
grade lacquer. You will only find them on luxury pieces of furniture.
They are long-lasting finishes and need little care.
Never use any solvent or abrasives to clean your speakers. To remove
fingerprints, use a lint-free cloth moistened with a few drops of water.
Yoy can dry clean your finish with a microfiber cloth. A window cleaner
liquid can also be used with caution if necessary.
Maintenance
Verity Audio products are offering years of trouble-free performance.
If for any reason, your speaker needs servicing, contact your autho-
rized Verity Audio dealer or call the Verity Audio service Department at
(418) 682-9940
(North America) or email us at
support@verityau-
dio.com
. Help is available from Monday through Friday from 9:00
A.M. to 5:00 P.M. Eastern Standard Time (EST), except on holidays.
If you seem to have an operational problem, try to solve it by referring
to the information in the Troubleshooting section of this manual. If
you cannot quickly resume normal operation, contact Verity’s expe-
rienced support personnel at the above phone number.
Before contacting your Verity Audio authorized service representative,
make sure you have the following information in hand.
• Serial numbers
• Place of purchase
• Nature of the problem
• Steps you have taken to solve the problem, and obtained results
A return authorization number is required for servicing any of our pro-
ducts and it should be clearly identified on the packaging before any
shipment to our facilities. Every unit shipped without return authoriza-
tion number will be returned to the sender.
