Emotiva Airmotiv 4 Owner's Manual page 13

• If possible, mount your airmotiv monitors upright (with the high-frequency
transducer on top), vertically (not angled upwards or downwards), with the middle
of the front baffle at approximately the same height as the engineer's seated head
height, and toe in each speaker so the front is directly facing towards the engineer's
head.
• Locate your airmotiv monitors so that the distance between them is approximately
the same as the distance between each monitor and the engineer's head
(the monitors and the engineer should form an equilateral triangle).
• If your monitors must be mounted above head height, tilting them down to directly
face the engineer's seated head position is suggested, and mounting them upside
down (high-frequency transducer towards the floor) will produce better results
in many cases. The goal is to maximize direct sound reaching the engineer and
minimize reflected sound. If possible, avoid mounting your monitors in the upper
or lower corners of the room (doing so will enhance bass output, but will often
produce muddy bass and adversely affect imaging.)
• If conditions require that your monitors be placed on a table or other horizontal
surface, or with other large reflective surfaces between them and the console, you
can minimize reflections by covering the surface with sound absorbing material.
• Always leave several inches of clearance behind your airmotiv powered studio
monitors to avoid blocking the rear-positioned port and to allow the amplifiers to
dissipate heat via the aluminum back plate fins, which will get warm in normal
operation.
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