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Thank You Thank you for your purchase of the Presence loudspeaker. Every element is designed for a lifetime of trouble free high performance playback. It is our desire to exceed your expectations in product performance, quality, durability and service. If we have simply met your expectations or have fallen short, we would sincerely appreciate knowing how we may improve.
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WARNING: The integrated Hypex UcD amplifier presents a short between the black loudspeaker inputs and RCA connector grounds. If you connect both channels of a bridged amplifier to a single Presence Hypex amp you may short circuit your bridged power amp. Your main amp will be fine, regardless of type, so long as you: •...
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Presence integrated Hypex plate amp and use an external amp to power the subwoofers.) Plug the supplied Zu Birth™ power cable in the wall outlet and then in to the Presence’ power inlet, located on the Hypex plate amp just below the main input posts.
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The Presence’ integrated low frequency amp can be feed signal through loudspeaker-level “high power” inputs and line-level RCA-type inputs. Under normal operation no damage can come to bridged amplifiers connected to the Presence. However, there are two things you should not do if you are running bridged amps.
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Zu Presence Connector And Subwoofer Amp Plate Diagram Baseline Settings Built-in Subwoofer Amp Speaker-Level Output Main Loudspeaker Input [OUT] [Feeds FRD + Tweeter] [IN] [IN] Subwoofer Input Small jumper taps the signal from your main amp and feeds signal to the built-in subwoofer amp.
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The following details may assist you in the pursuit of texture, tone, and natural stereophonic recreation. Placement for left / right front: Presence should be placed to work with the natural acoustics of the room rather than fight them. The following basic points should be followed.
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While moving, the “in the listening area” observer, and possibly the person positioning the loudspeaker, should notice midrange color (presence) transition from low and masked to open and intimate. There may be several spots within the good sounding bass area that have good presence, go with the widest point (closest to the wall) for an expansive and engaging soundstage, don’t worry about center focus, Presence will do quite well...
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/ electromagnetic, virtual ground plane, and conductor relational geometry. This final E&M (electronics & magnetism) model, or cable geometry, largely determines measured attributes. Presence features a specifically engineered B3 silver alloy cable for internal hook-up. We strongly recommend the use of our Ibis or Libtec loudspeaker cables terminated with our pure copper spade lugs.
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The Human “Listening” Evaluation & Review Of A Device Within The Playback System—A Preliminary Overview Like any complex system, the playback system, and the environment that surrounds it, cannot be fully modeled without profound insight into every detail and the interplay of elemental and subsystem components—and that is to assume that fundamental nature searched for within the field of physics are completely understood.
If you have a problem please contact us and we will do our best to prove that our service is as solid as our products. The Zu Presence has been designed and manufactured to the highest quality. However, if something does go wrong, Zu will fix or replace the product free of charge.
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Efficiency 101 dB @ 1 watt / meter Impedance 16 Ω nominal as used in Presence (50 - 20 kHz, music weighted) Average Room / Moderate Volume 1 - 4 Watt Large Room / Loud...
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