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Page 1: Table Of Contents
~ Ä ë ç ä ì í É = Ñ á ÇÉ ä á í ó™ Owners Manual and Set-up Guide: Genesis 5.3 Loudspeaker Contents A QUICK START SET-UP GUIDE NPACKING LACEMENT SET-UP GUIDE OSITIONING OWER OURCE COUSTIC ONTROLS TUNING THE SYSTEM DJUSTING THE ASS FILTER MAGING AND... - Page 2 ~ Ä ë ç ä ì í É = Ñ á ÇÉ ä á í ó™ A Message from Genesis Congratulations! You are now the owner of one of the finest loudspeaker systems in the world. Based on technologies developed and evolved over the past four decades, the Genesis 5.3 is a small 4-ft tall floor-standing loudspeaker, and yet it delivers some of the dynamics, imaging and soundstage of our largest 7-foot tall...
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Page 3: A Quick Start Set-Up Guide
~ Ä ë ç ä ì í É = Ñ á ÇÉ ä á í ó™ A Quick Start Set-up Guide Now that you have your new Genesis 5.3 loudspeaker system, we realize that you can’t wait to hook it up and start playing! However, please read this quick set up guide (even if your dealer is setting it up for you!) before you proceed. -
Page 4: Set-Up Guide
~ Ä ë ç ä ì í É = Ñ á ÇÉ ä á í ó™ Set-up Guide Positioning A good starting position for the Genesis 5 is about 20% of the way into the room as measured from the front wall (the wall you look at as you are seated listening to the speakers). -
Page 5: Source Input Connections
~ Ä ë ç ä ì í É = Ñ á ÇÉ ä á í ó™ G5 into an unswitched outlet, or a switched outlet that can always be left ON. The built-in amplifier has an auto-sensing circuit that will put the amplifier into stand-by when there is no music being played for around 25 minutes. -
Page 6: The Acoustic Platform
~ Ä ë ç ä ì í É = Ñ á ÇÉ ä á í ó™ invert the high-level inputs when the bass section of the G5 is driven by the preamplifier. If you do this, use a good quality balanced interconnect cable to connect the balanced output of your preamplifier to the preamp level input XLR connector, or the single-ended output of your preamplifier to the preamp level input RCA connector on the back... -
Page 7: Controls
~ Ä ë ç ä ì í É = Ñ á ÇÉ ä á í ó™ Controls There are a total of five control knobs in two rows on the back plate of the Genesis 5 loudspeaker. The upper left knob on the back plate marked “Tweeter” is a volume control for the front tweeter. -
Page 8: Bas Gain
~ Ä ë ç ä ì í É = Ñ á ÇÉ ä á í ó™ Tuning the system Two channel stereo music is the best way to begin your setup procedure. We suggest that multi-channel and video sources be used only after you have setup the system to properly reproduce music. -
Page 9: Low Pass Filter
~ Ä ë ç ä ì í É = Ñ á ÇÉ ä á í ó™ music accompaniment should sound as if it were cut from one cloth, not separate. If the voice sounds “thin” or does not have enough “chest” to its sound, turn the woofers amplifier’s gain up till it does. -
Page 10: Imaging And Soundstage
~ Ä ë ç ä ì í É = Ñ á ÇÉ ä á í ó™ Imaging and Soundstage If your vocal selection is a well-recorded audiophile CD or LP, the performer should appear to come from behind the loudspeakers and be at the appropriate height and size for a person. -
Page 11: Tuning Into The Room
~ Ä ë ç ä ì í É = Ñ á ÇÉ ä á í ó™ music. When these speakers are properly set up, you will have a sweet spot wide enough for you and your spouse. When you sway side to side while enjoying the music, the image and tonality of the system should also not waver. -
Page 12: Home Theater And Multi-Channel Music
~ Ä ë ç ä ì í É = Ñ á ÇÉ ä á í ó™ bright and you will have to turn the tweeter control down significantly. On the other hand, large sofas and arm-chairs tend to absorb frequencies in the lower mid-range and mid-bass. When your room is full of furniture, you may find that you have to turn down the tweeter, midrange, and bass gain. -
Page 13: Lfe Gain
~ Ä ë ç ä ì í É = Ñ á ÇÉ ä á í ó™ The LFE input bypasses the internal crossover, and hence uses the home theatre processor’s crossover. Since the G5 is able to play down to 18Hz, the bass section can also be used as your Home Theater System’s LFE sub-woofer if you do not have one –... -
Page 14: The Refinement Stage
~ Ä ë ç ä ì í É = Ñ á ÇÉ ä á í ó™ Distributing the bass is also helpful for reproduction of multi-channel music because you get incredible articulation and detail in the bass all around the room. The Refinement stage After following the rough setup guide above, you may not be completely satisfied with the results. -
Page 15: Room Treatment
~ Ä ë ç ä ì í É = Ñ á ÇÉ ä á í ó™ Secondly, you may make the mid bass produced by the top of the woofer out of proportion with the mid bass produced by the bottom of the mid-bass coupler. -
Page 16: Mastering The Refinements Of The System
~ Ä ë ç ä ì í É = Ñ á ÇÉ ä á í ó™ small amount of absorption. Hence, a curtained glass window would just be about perfect. Sidewalls. Because the speaker is a dipole it is less sensitive to the sidewalls. - Page 17 ~ Ä ë ç ä ì í É = Ñ á ÇÉ ä á í ó™ sound. This ability is useful in fine tuning your system because if every recording you listen to has a similarity of sound (too much or too little of a certain frequency for instance) then you can be fairly certain that you have yet to perfect your set-up.
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Page 18: The Technology
~ Ä ë ç ä ì í É = Ñ á ÇÉ ä á í ó™ The Technology The Genesis Ribbon Tweeter Reviewers in the Audiophile press have often remarked that the Genesis circular ribbon tweeter is the world’s best. It is a one inch circular planar ribbon design crafted from an extremely thin membrane of Kapton with a photo-etched aluminium “voice coil”... -
Page 19: Mid-Bass Couplers
~ Ä ë ç ä ì í É = Ñ á ÇÉ ä á í ó™ Mid-Bass Couplers In order to create a “sound bridge” between the midrange and the bass section, the G5 incorporates two 6.5inch metal cone mid-bass couplers. -
Page 20: Aluminium-Cone Woofers
~ Ä ë ç ä ì í É = Ñ á ÇÉ ä á í ó™ moderate levels. The Genesis servo bass system reduces this distortion to below one percent at almost any output level. It also drives the woofer to constant acceleration, which makes its frequency response totally flat!! The servo system is a more proactive approach to controlling a loudspeaker than high-damping factor and high current in the normal... -
Page 21: 500 Watt Classd Servo Amplifier
~ Ä ë ç ä ì í É = Ñ á ÇÉ ä á í ó™ cones and the loudspeaker enclosure all work in unison to produce bass output that descends evenly to below your hearing limits. 500 watt Class D Servo Amplifier While the advantages of metal cones include extreme stiffness resulting in very low distortion and break-up, one problem is that of greater mass. -
Page 22: Specifications
~ Ä ë ç ä ì í É = Ñ á ÇÉ ä á í ó™ floor-borne vibrations do not affect the imaging and soundstage of the loudspeaker. The stainless steel spikes rigidly couple the suspension system to the floor. If you have hardwood floors and do not want to make holes in the wood, use a copper penny (instead of expensive “spike cups”) under the spike.
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