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INTRODUCTION
Thank you for purchasing the PSB Speakers Imagine XA Dolby Atmos
into your life. They have the wide frequency and dynamic range, natural tonal balance, and precise spatial imaging needed make both music and movies
powerfully lifelike and enjoyable. All of our models match closely in tonal balance to allow easy mixing in home theatre systems.
UNPACKING THE SPEAKERS
The packaging materials are designed to protect the speaker from damage during transport, however if visible or concealed damage has occurred in
handling, it should be reported at once to your authorized PSB dealer, or to the shipping company that delivered your speakers. We highly recommend
retaining all packaging, as it may be needed to transport the speakers in the future.
INSTALLING THE GRILLES
WHAT IS DOLBY ATMOS
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With Dolby Atmos, sound comes alive from all directions, including overhead. The format combines a channel-based audio bed with object-oriented sound
to place and move specific effects around the theater, creating a breathtakingly realistic and captivating sonic atmosphere.
Sound designers and artists are free to mix in a 3D space, steering effects through surround channels and adding a seamless overhead dimension
with discrete height channels. In commercial theaters, it supports up to 128 audio tracks and 64 unique speaker feeds. The home theater adaptation
automatically scales to your surround configuration.
Additionally, a new Dolby surround up-mixer used in today's A/V receivers and processors allows for legacy channel-based content that has not been mixed
for Dolby Atmos to be expanded to fill the flexible speaker layouts of a Dolby Atmos system to add a new dimension to classic movies.
DESCRIPTION
The speaker is designed to fit perfectly on top of PSB Speakers' Imagine XT2, XT and XB speakers, creating an integrated, "one-piece" look. Additionally,
the Imagine XA are well suited to being used on top of any other quality speaker brand, or wall mounted as "stand-alone" Dolby Atmos-enabled speakers
in a 5.1.2, 5.1.4 or 7.1.4 Dolbly Atmos system.
Speaker. Our speakers are designed to make high-performance sound easy to bring
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The included grilles are part of the acoustic design of the height speaker and required to be in
place to meet the Dolby specified response pattern. To attach the grille simply line up plastic grill
pins with their corresponding rubber grommet receptacles and lightly push down on the grille
frame. The grille must be installed at all times during use, however if you wish to remove the grille
for cleaning, grasp the frame of the grille cover and gently lift the grille away from the speaker. To
re-attach it, reverse the process and follow the instructions above.
The Imagine XA Dolby Atmos was specifically designed to be used as the "elevation" or "height"
speaker in a Dolby Atmos surround system.
Working with Dolby Laboratories, Paul Barton, the Founder and Chief Designer of PSB Speakers,
developed the Imagine XA with its unique vertically-firing driver array to deliver the excitement
of Dolby Atmos-encoded soundtracks with three-dimensional realism and pinpoint accuracy. The
Imagine XA's frequency response and directivity pattern have been specifically engineered to meet
Dolby Atmos requirements.
The Imagine XA itself shares the same advanced driver technology with PSB's prestigious Imagine
Series—including its 4" clay-filled injection moulded polypropylene woofer, 1" titanium dome
ferrofluid-cooled tweeter and advanced crossover design—and is measured at Canada's National
Research Council (NRC) to the high performance standards of all PSB Speakers products.
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