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Owners Manual For The

CALIBRE &

CALIBRE XD

Loudspeaker System

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Page 1 Owners Manual For The CALIBRE & CALIBRE XD Loudspeaker System...
Page 2: Table Of Contents
The Cabinetry / Our Commitment Warranty Setup Unpacking Your Speakers Speaker Placement Hooking Up Cables Amplification 10-12 Calibre Rear Panel Connections 14-16 Calibre XD Introduction Calibre XD Connections Configurations 19-21 Wavelet Connections Designer Notes Additional Notes for Calibre (passive/standard users) Specifications...
Page 3: Owners Record
Model: CALIBRE or CALIBRE XD Serial No: _________________________ Date of purchase: ___________________ Register your product at legacyaudio.com/register Share your Legacy speakers with the Legacy community. Post your Legacy experience and system photos at facebook.com/LegacyAudio Like the page to continue receiving the latest Legacy announcements.
Page 4: The Cabinetry / Our Commitment
Our Commitment A great deal of forethought, love and satisfaction is instilled in each piece of Legacy workmanship. We take pride in getting to know many of our customers on a first name basis.
Page 5: Warranty
Warranty Legacy Audio supports its customers and products with pride. We cheerfully warrant our loud- speaker products we manufacture from defects in materials and workmanship for a period of seven (7) years. Electronic components such as internal amplifiers and digital processors are covered for three (3)years.
Page 6: Unpacking Your Speakers
Please save this packing for future transportation. If cartons become damaged or misplaced, new ones can be purchased from Legacy Audio.
Page 7: Speaker Placement
As the overall listening angle increases from 40 degrees, the amount of toe-in should increase. Your Legacy speaker is optimized for a flat response in the far field. Best results are obtained vertically with the li s tener's ear at tweeter level with the loudspeakers gently toed in toward the listener.
Page 8: Hooking Up Cables
Hooking Up Cables The ideal conductor would have negligible resistance, inductance and capacitance. The table below shows how a few actual speaker cables measure up. Cable s/ft pF/ft µH/ft 12 ga. 0.0033 0.21 14 ga. 0.0048 0.13 16 ga. 0.0079 0.18 18 ga.
Page 9: Hooking Up Cables
Hooking Up Cables What about phase shift due to frequency dependent travel times down the speaker cable? Measurements show that 100 Hz waves will be delayed about 20 billionths of a second behind 10 kHz waves when traveling to the end of a 10 foot speaker cable. Since the cilia of the ear requires 25,000 times longer than this just to transmit phase information, phase shifting is obviously not the primary concern when considering speaker cables.
Page 10: Amplification
For this reason, extensive measures have been taken to ensure that each Legacy speaker system represents a smooth, non-reactive load to virtually any amplifier. Often there is much confusion regarding amplification and loudness levels. It should be under- stood that the role of the amplifier goes beyond that of driving loudspeakers to a given sound pressure level.
Page 11 Some audiophiles feel that 200 watts per channel is the bare minimum to avoid audible clipping distortion when reproducing music at “live” playback levels. Your Legacy speakers are designed to take advantage of “high-powered” amplifiers, so don’t be afraid to put them through their paces.
Page 12 Amplification When an amplifier is unable to fulfill your loudspeakers demands, a damaging harmonic spike may be leaked to the high frequency drivers. Another important point regarding loudness is that the dB scale is a logarithmic one. This means that a 150 Watt amplifier will potentially sound only twice as loud as a 15 Watt amplifier.
Page 13: Calibre Rear Panel
The negative (-) terminal of the amplifier should be connected to the negative terminal of the loudspeaker. When driving Calibre with a single channel of amplification, you may use either set of jumpered binding posts. When bi-wiring or bi-amping, remove the jumper strips completely.
Page 14 Speaker Connections Bi - wiring Bi-wiring allows one to minimize the cable losses between the amplifier and the loud- speaker. This is accomplished with a single stereo amplifier by running separate sets of cables to the satellite section and the subwoofer section from the same channel of amplification.
Page 15: Speaker Connections
Speaker Connections 1. Vertical Bi-amping Vertical bi-amplification requires the dedication of a single stereo amplifier for the left speaker, and another stereo amplifier for the right speaker. This configuration im- proves channel separation and can improve imaging slightly. If your preamp does not have two sets of left/right outputs, you will need a pair of Y-adapters or a signal split- ter, such as a dual amp balancer, which will also allow adjustment of subwoofer/ satellite input levels.
Page 16 DSP room correction. Adding the Legacy Wavelet processor can extend bass response, prevent excursion overload, and avoid room resonances. The versatile Wavelet processor can also integrate a subwoofer or stereo pair of subwoofers with the Calibre. Please contact our technical staff with any questions you may have.
Page 17 Calibre XD Enhances Versatility Adding 50 0 Watts of Internal Power The Legacy Calibre is now available in both the standard version and the powered XD version. Be careful to understand the Calibre XD is not a replacement for the Calibre, but a more versatile internally amplified version of the same, facilitating both passive and active bi-amplification.
Page 18: Connections
Calibre XD Rear Panel Connections: Before configuring the Calibre XD and making cable connections, be sure both the internal amplifiers and any external amplifiers are powered completely off. Disconnect from AC outlet if uncertain.
Page 19: Configurations
Configuration: Full Range Powered The internal amplifier will power the entire loudspeaker. With the AC power switch in the OFF (0) position, s et the rocker switch of Calibre XD in the downward position. Connect the female end (with 3 holes) of a balanced XLR cable to your Preamplifier’s LEFT channel balanced output.
Page 20 Connect the male end (with 3 pins) of the same cable to the BALANCED INPUT receptacle on the rear panel of the Left Calibre XD rear panel. Be sure it is pressed in fully. Connect another cable from the same Preamplifier output (or Y-adapter) to the LEFT input of your external amplifier.
Page 21: Configurations
Connect external amplifier’s Right channel output to the Right Calibre XD binding post (observing correct polarity). Power on preamp, processor, external amp and Calibre XD internal amps in sequence. Turn on any streaming device last. Play music bringing up the level gradually to verify connections.
Page 22: Wavelet Connections
Wavelet Connections...
Page 23: Designer Notes
Designer Notes "I had but one thing in mind with Calibre - to build the highest resolution compact speaker available anywhere. Merely three inches taller than our Studio HD, it uses our high power handling 4" AMT ribbon, a precision 7.5" custom midrange/ midbass built in Florence, Italy and the best 8"...
Page 24: Additional Notes For Calibre (Passive/Standard Users)
You may upgrade to XD level performance a number of ways: • Passively bi-amp by adding a Legacy Powerbloc2 with 500 watts of power to the bass section of each Calibre, while driving the upper section with your external amplifier.
Page 25: Specifications
Specifications System Type: 3 driver, 3 way Tweeter: 4" AMT Midrange: 7.5" accordian edge with 6lb magnetic structure Bass : 8" Extended Throw Sub-Bass Radiator: (2) 8" Mass Loaded Pneumatic Low Frequency Alignment: 6th order mass loaded radiator Internal Amplification: XD: 500 Watts/channel Frequency Response: 38-30k (+/- 2dB, Hz)
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