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Genesis G4 Owners Manual And Set-Up Manual

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  • Page 2 a bs o l u t e f i d e l i t y ® Owners Manual and Set-up Guide The Genesis 4 Loudspeaker Contents SET-UP GUIDE LANNING THE LACEMENT NPACKING AND OSITIONING OUDSPEAKER ONNECTIONS OUDSPEAKER ONTROLS ERVO ONTROLLED MPLIFIER ROTECTION ORD ABOUT...
  • Page 3 40 years in constant production. The G4 loudspeaker is designed to reproduce music (and film) at live listening levels with virtually no restrictions on dynamic range, frequency response, or imaging capabilities in a medium-sized ®...
  • Page 4 a bs o l u t e f i d e l i t y ® Please write the purchase details of your Genesis 4 loudspeaker here for future reference. Remember; send in your registration card to extend the limited warranty on your loudspeakers. Bought from: ____________________________ ____________________________ Date: ___________________________________...

  • Page 5: Set-Up Guide

    Every room will be different, with doorways, furniture, closets, wall construction and covering, etc. all making a significant impact on the sound. Luckily, the G4 provides sufficient adjustability to conform to almost any acoustic environment!

  • Page 6: L Oudspeaker C Onnections

    a bs o l u t e f i d e l i t y ® of the crate form a lid that is removed and then the speaker can be easily pulled out. After unpacking, we strongly suggest that the crates be dismantled, flattened and safely stored away in a cool, dry place.

  • Page 7: L Oudspeaker C Ontrols

    ® Loudspeaker Controls You will notice four control knobs on the back of the G4. These are labelled “ ”, “ ”, “ ” and “...

  • Page 8: S Ervo -C Ontrolled B Ass A Mplifier P Rotection

    A Word about Finish The G4 is finished to a high degree of gloss. Use only a damp cloth to wipe the speakers down. In particular, DO NOT use paper towels to wipe the surface of your loudspeakers. Paper fibres are extremely abrasive and can introduce fine scratches on the surface that will “cloud”...

  • Page 9: Initial Set-Up

    Initial Set-up Music is the best way to begin to setup your speakers. While we deliver the G4 after at least 24 hours of running-in, further fine- tuning of your system may be necessary after 400 hours or so. As the loudspeaker system breaks in, it will sound better and better.
  • Page 10 The G4 is able to deliver a realistic soundstage only if the recording contains such realism.
  • Page 11 Too much absorption on the wall behind the speakers will also result in less depth in the soundstage. The G4 requires a relatively “live” front wall. Find the best compromise for your room, your tastes and your space requirements.

  • Page 12: The Refinement Stage

    a bs o l u t e f i d e l i t y ® image. The usual reason that you will want to do this is that you have a “W” soundstage. The sound images are most dense (or focussed) in the middle, and then dense around where the speakers are, but less dense between the center and the speaker.

  • Page 13: Appropriate Mid-Bass/Low-Bass Balance

    a bs o l u t e f i d e l i t y ® midrange/tweeter panels further apart, or closer together, move one panel, listen, and then move the other panel. You may also find an asymmetric placement in-room more accurate and pleasing as the furniture and the room may be asymmetric in the first place.

  • Page 14: R Oom T Reatment

    a bs o l u t e f i d e l i t y ® coupling of the woofers to the room. Do this procedure in small increments (approximately half an inch at a time) and return often to the recordings you have used to adjust the front to back depth and soundstage properties of your system.

  • Page 15: M Astering The R Efinements Of The System

    a bs o l u t e f i d e l i t y ® the speaker. How the front wall is treated or not treated is important. Generally speaking, the Genesis loudspeakers prefer a live front wall. By these terms we mean the amount of reflection of sound. A typical wall of glass or, brick, cement or drywall material is a reflective surface.
  • Page 16 a bs o l u t e f i d e l i t y ® 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.

  • Page 17: The Technology

    The G4 is a point-source dipole loudspeaker, and hence, the challenge during the design was to approximate an infinitesimally small pulsating point from a 4-foot tall loudspeaker. We have achieved this using carefully calculated crossover slopes and our own crossover topology.

  • Page 18: The Genesis Ring-Radiator Ribbon Tweeter

    ® The G4 is also a dipole radiator with the front and rear tweeters, midrange and mid-bass couplers are open front and back and mounted on a light, resonance-managed baffle with no enclosure.

  • Page 19: Titanium Mid-Bass Coupler

    This result in a near perfect ribbon midrange with the same wide and even radiation characteristics as the Genesis tweeter. Titanium Mid-Bass Coupler The G4 uses a pair of Genesis-designed proprietary 5.5 inch solid titanium-coned transducers to cover this critical frequency spectrum between the midrange and the servo-bass woofers.
  • Page 20 a bs o l u t e f i d e l i t y ® because of the extraordinary demands a servo system makes on the amplifier and the transducer. The history of the Genesis servo- ® system started from the first introduced in the legendary Infinity Servo Statik One in 1968(!) –...

  • Page 21: S Ervo - Controlled B Ass A Mplifier

    ® and light enough to react extremely quickly. The G4 features two side-firing 10-inch woofers per channel. While the servo system is able to ensure that the driver works linearly as a perfect piston, it is unable to correct for distortion caused by cone wobble, bending, and break-up.
  • Page 22 a bs o l u t e f i d e l i t y ® This ensures that all midrange frequencies are “dumped” below the base of the cabinet so that floor-borne vibrations do not affect the imaging and soundstage of the loudspeaker.

  • Page 23: S Pecifications

    a bs o l u t e f i d e l i t y ® Specifications  Dimensions: H 50” x W 18” x D 22”  Weight: 120 lbs (55kg) each  Frequency Response: 20Hz to 40kHz, +/- 3dB ...

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