Congratulations on choosing PSB Platinum Series speakers. Please take the time to read the instructions in this guide, as they will help you enjoy the full potential of your loudspeakers in any stereo or multichannel home theater application. Warranty Registration We recommend you take a few moments now to register your warranty, preferably on-line at psbspeakers.com/w/Warranty.html or via the enclosed registration form so that we will be able to serve you better in the...
If you must sit closer to one speaker than the other, use the Balance control on your electronics (or the individual level controls on home theater channels) to give the more distant speaker a balancing boost in volume.
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Where you sit in relation to your speakers obviously makes a difference too. The proportions of the particular triangle formed by your speakers and you matter. (You may need to send more power to the more distant speaker to compensate if you get much further from one speaker than the other.) The overall distances involved also matter. As you get further from the speakers, more sound reflected from your room’s surfaces (in contrast to the sound coming...
Use this wire-coding, together with the amp/receiver and speaker color-coding, to be sure you are connecting the same wire of a given pair to a like-coded terminal at both ends of your connection.
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Bi-Wiring and Bi-Amping Options All PSB Platinum Series speakers can be bi-wired (separate cables to the separated woofers and midrange/tweeters from the same amplifier) and bi-amped (separate amplifiers). With single cable inputs, the jumper straps must be in place and both sets of terminals tightened firmly.
Bi-Amp Connections First First remove remove jumpers jumpers Rear Tweeter – Enabled/Disabled The PSB Platinum T8 Tower has a second, rear- facing tweeter that can be enabled or disabled at the user’s preference. The primary purpose of the second tweeter is to provide added ambiance—more of the “air”...
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Speaker Connection Options (For S2 Surrounds) The captioned illustrations below show the following multi-channeled configurations: 1. Bipole or direct radiating surround mode 2. Dipole surround mode 3. 6.1/7.1 system utilizing two (2) S2 surrounds 4. 6.1/7.1 system utilizing three (3) S2 surrounds 5.
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6.1/7.1 System Utilizing Two (2) S2 Surrounds Black — Surround — Rear From amp left REAR channel First remove jumpers Black From amp left SURROUND channel 6.1/7.1 System Utilizing Three (3) S2 Surrounds — Surround — Rear Black From amp left SURROUND channel Black...
We recommend amplifiers and receivers rated from a range of 50-300 watts. For playing at consistently room-filling volume, a minimum of 100 watts is usually a good idea. Be war y of driving low-powered amplifiers to their limits as under-powering can cause permanent speaker damage. Protecting Your Investment A.
In Case of Problems A. Lower volume if a speaker begins to sound distor ted or seems to be missing certain frequencies, to check first to see whether playing at somewhat lower volume seems to clear up the problem. As we noted under “Recommended Power,”...