Speaker Break-In; Connecting Your Loudspeakers - Definitive Technology BP7000SC Owner's Manual

Speaker Break-In

Your BP7000
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an extended break-in period of 40-60 hours or more of normal playing is required
to reach full performance capability. Break-in allows the suspensions to work in
and results in fuller bass, a more open "blossoming" midrange and smoother high
frequency reproduction.

Connecting Your Loudspeakers

Connecting Your Speakers to Your Electronics
Your BP7000
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There are two sets of speaker level (high level) 5-way binding posts. In addition,
each speaker has an LFE input. This input can be used with Dolby Digital* and
DTS* 5.1 (6.1, 7.1) decoders to separately feed the discrete "Low Frequency
Effects" channel into each subwoofer (which then combines with the low bass
present separately in the left or right channel signals). If desired, you may hook
up your BP7000
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your amplifier to each BP7000
the low/mid- and high-frequency section of each BP7000
conjunction with running a separate low-level input to the LFE input of the
subwoofer section of each speaker. Your BP7000
exceptional performance no matter which hook-up method you use. The more
complex methods are often chosen by advanced hobbyists to extract the last 1%
of performance potential from the speakers, while most listeners use the simplest
hook-ups which also deliver superb performance. Unlike a conventional system,
where the subwoofer is driven only by an LFE subwoofer signal, the BP7000
BP7001 s are much more sophisticated and are driven by the left or right channel
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signal as well as the LFE signal. For optimum performance, please read through
these instructions fully and follow them.
* Registered Trademarks.
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/BP7001 s may be connected in several different ways.
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/BP7001 s simply by running one set of speaker wires from
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s, or as complexly as bi-wiring
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