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SVS "Powered Cylinder,
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SVS Models
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Contents:
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Page 1 Welcome
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Page 2 About your new SV Subwoofer
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Pages 4-7 Setup, integration, and calibration
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Page 7-8 Powered Cylinder amp features
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Pages 9-10 Bass demos for your home theater
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Page 11 Home theater terms
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Page 12 Warranty
Last update: 13 March 2001
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16-46PCi
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- Page 1 Pages 4-7 Setup, integration, and calibration • Page 7-8 Powered Cylinder amp features • Pages 9-10 Bass demos for your home theater • Page 11 Home theater terms • Page 12 Warranty Last update: 13 March 2001 ’ 16-46PCi 20-39PCi 25-31PCi...
- Page 2 Page 2 Welcome. rom the entire SVS team, congratulations on your purchase of a new standard in home theater and music bass! Your sub isn’t some generic black box built someplace you can’t even find on a map. It’s made in Ohio, (as in USA), by home audio fanat- ics...
- Page 3 Page 3 SV Subwoofers About your SV Subwoofer No powered subwoofers look anything like them, and virtually none work like them either. SV Subwoofers are decidedly different. The best part? You could have spent much more and still not come close to the same bass performance our Powered Cylinder line gives you.
- Page 4 Page 4 Setup, calibrating and integration hat’s to know? Well, first of all, setting up an SV Subwoofer is pretty darn easy. There are a few key things to get right though, if you want to get the most out of your sub… npacking.
- Page 5 SV Subwoofers More Setup, calibrating and integration If you are running a pair of SV Subwoofers (fig. 2), you will need to use a standard “Y” cable adapter (c.) The best adaptor to use for this task has one male RCA connection and two female RCA outputs. (Radio Shack ®...
- Page 6 Page 6 “Large”. Selecting the size accordingly will ensure bass goes to most appro- priate speakers, and use the subwoofer correctly too. Also, is your sub- woofer turned “ON”? We don’t mean “is your subwoofer amplifier on?” (that’ll be important later too!) but rather, is your receiver sending a bass signal to your sub amp? This can only happen if you say “Yes”...
- Page 7 SV Subwoofers keep input distortion to a minimum, however you should not be set much lower than –5 dB recommended earlier, some adjustment room is needed to tweak down the road. If your subwoofer reading is still too high then turn down the sub’s amp volume a little with each run.
- Page 8 SV Subwoofers Page 8 Phase. Think of bass waves as conflicting or enhancing each other, depending on the timing of their arrival at your listening location (either together, or not). Since some of your room’s bass might come from main, center and/or surround speakers, as well as your sub, getting these bass wave forms to arrive in a complementary, enhancing fash- ion is the difficult job of the phase switch.
- Page 9 SV Subwoofers Bassy demo scenes to die for. o now what?? You’ve got one of the best HT bass sub-systems on the planet, you’re calibrated...want to see what she’ll do? Sure you do! Since finding those scenes can be a bit trying, we’ve compiled a list of our favorites below.
- Page 10 Page 10 More Bassy demo scenes. • “Titanic” You love it...or you hate it. Regardless of which side of the ship you sit, this flick does some serious rumbling for you: “We can’t leave him” Scene 22 (2:21:50) “Ship Splitting” (2:41:30) “Last Gasp”...
- Page 11 SV Subwoofers Page 11 A Glossary of Home Theater Terms Frankly, don’t feel guilty if you want to skip over the below. But if you are curious about just what some of the terms and abbreviations stand for, read on: dB - Short for “deci-Bell”...
- Page 12 Warranty: 45-day money back warranty. fied with the performance of your subwoofer, return it to us for a full refund of the purchase price. Just a few minor stipulations should you choose to do this: • Subwoofer must be returned in original shipping box. •...