Placing Your Acoustimass®-10 Speakers To Achieve Realistic Home Theater Sound - Bose Acoustimass-10 Owner's Manual

Placing your Acoustimass °.10 speakers to achieve
realistic home theater sound
The center speaker localizes action and dialogue on your screen. Sound from the center
speaker should seem to come from within the picture.
The left and right front speakers create a sound image wider than the screen that seems
natural to viewers sitting anywhere in the room.
The surround speakers add subtle sounds and special effects that expand the visual image,
bringing the viewer into the center of the action. The surround speakers should be posi-
tioned to allow the sound to reach the viewer from both sides, rather than from directly
behind.
You can place the front and center speakers near a TV screen with no picture interference,
because all of the cube speakers are magnetically shielded.
The Acoustimass module is not magnetically shielded and should be at least 2 feet (.6 m)
from your screen, but at the same end of the room as the front and center speakers. Bose ®
Acoustimass speaker technology takes advantage of the fact that the source of bass sound
is difficult to locate, so you can hide the Acoustimass module conveniently out of sight.
A suggested home theater layout that conforms to the guidelines described above is shown
in Figure 2. Twist the pairs of cube speakers so they describe angles that create room-filling
sound patterns.
You may choose to place the speakers differently, to take advantage of the sound charac-
teristics of different rooms. Your speakers come with sufficient cable lengths to allow you to
have the following distances between components:
• Up to 20 feet (6 m) between the Acoustimass module and the receiver.
• Up to 20 feet (6 m) between the Acoustimass module and the front and center cube
speakers.
• Up to 50 feet (15 m) between the Acoustimass module and the surround speakers.
Bose wall brackets and floor stands can extend your placement options. See "Accessories"
on page 14.
NOTE:
Please follow wall bracket
instructions carefully Proper
mounting will insure optimum
performance from your
systemr
Figure 2
One suggested home theater
layout
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