Important Safety Instructions Please read all instructions and precautions carefully and completely before op- erating your Wisdom Audio equipment. 1. Read these instructions. 2. Keep these instructions. 3. Heed all warnings. 4. Follow all instructions. 5. Do not use this equipment near water.
Table of Contents Important Safety Instructions .................3 Introduction ....................6 About this manual ....................6 Description .....................7 Regenerative Transmission Line™ ....................7 Unpacking the SAS ..................8 Room Acoustics & Placement ................9 Start With the Room ....................9 Rigid Walls ......................9 Speaker Placement ....................10 Left & Right Speakers ..................10 Center Channel .....................10 Remote Setup via Modem ..................10 Surround Speakers ..................
This manual focuses on the SAS subwoofer itself. While we expect your local About this manual Wisdom Audio dealer to take care of the setup and calibration of the system, we still recommend that you at least briefly review this and the other Wisdom Audio manuals relevant to your system to understand the system’s full capabili-...
Description Your Wisdom Audio SAS subwoofer uses a modern implementation of an old idea for high quality, low distortion bass reproduction. While the roots of the Regenerative Transmission Line go back to the 1950’s, it is the combination of ™...
Unpacking the SAS The Wisdom Audio SAS subwoofer is a substantial piece of equipment. Please exercise caution when unpacking your SAS to ensure that you do not strain yourself from its (perhaps unexpected) weight. Caution! Do not attempt to lift your SAS while bending or twisting from the waist.
Room Acoustics & Placement Wisdom Audio believes in equalization. Assume for a moment that you had a “perfect” loudspeaker: as soon as you place it in your room, its perfection is gone. In fact, even good rooms can introduce deviations of 20 dB to the re- sponse of the system.
Wisdom Audio SC-1. Your Wisdom Audio dealer can help you with optimizing your speaker place- ment, which is never quite as simple as it seems it should be. The characteristics...
Left and Right speakers while minimizing the change in image height as a sound is panned across the front stage. Wisdom Audio has designed horizontally-ori- ented planar magnetic hybrid speakers that will match your Sage loudspeakers superbly;...
(The minimization of these reflections is one of the strongest arguments for the tall, line source loud- speakers that Wisdom Audio builds.) This leaves you with eight “first reflections” that you should consider minimizing somehow. These points are easily found by having an assistant slide a small mirror along the four walls of the room, while you sit at the listening position.
Find someone who specializes in and has a great deal of experi- ence designing home studios, home theaters, and the like. Your Wisdom Audio dealer may be such a person; failing that, he/she can help you find such a pro- fessional.
SAS to the corresponding + and – terminals of the SAS, located in the re- cessed input cup. Note that while Wisdom Audio amplifiers are all non-inverting, some other brands of power amplifiers do invert polarity. It is always best to...
As with most subwoofers, the SAS requires equalization for fully optimizing its performance. This EQ may be provided by any of the following the Wisdom Audio products: • SC-1 System Controller (if one exists in the system) •...
The warranty will not apply to any Wisdom Audio loudspeaker that has been misused, abused, al- tered, or installed and calibrated by anyone other than an authorized Wisdom Audio dealer.
We take great pride in our dealers. Experience, dedication, and integrity make these professionals ideally suited to assist with our customers’ service needs. If you develop a problem with your Wisdom Audio subwoofer, please contact your dealer. Your dealer will then decide whether the problem can be remedied locally, or whether to contact Wisdom Audio for further service information or parts.
■ Dimensions see dimensional drawing on next page 45 lbs. (20.5 kg) Shipping weight ■ For more information, see your Wisdom Audio dealer, or contact: Wisdom Audio 1572 College Parkway, Suite 164 Carson City, NV 89706 www.wisdomaudio.com information@wisdomaudio.com Ph: 775.887.8850...
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