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Page 1 Owners Manual For The S ilhouette Loudspeaker System...
Page 2: Table Of Contents
Page Registration Owners Record The Cabinetry / Our Commitment Warranty Setup Speaker Installation Silhouette On Wall Installation Silhouette Pro On Wall Installation Silhouette Pro In Wall Installation Hooking Up Cables 10-11 12- 1 4 Amplification Speaker Connections Technology Developing a Reference Class On-Wall...
Page 3: Owners Record
Like the page to continue receiving the latest Legacy announcements. The serial number is located on the rear of the unit. Record this number in the space provided below. Refer to this when calling your dealer regarding this product. Model: Silhouette Serial No: _________________________ Date of purchase: ___________________...
Page 4: The Cabinetry / Our Commitment
The Cabinetry / Our Commitment Handcrafted Beneath the surface of Silhouette ’s elegant exterior lies rigid MDF construction. Interlocking joinery maximizes the strength of the cabinet parts. Polyester fiberfill is selected for internal damping. A sharp rap on the enclosure will leave you with little more than bruised knuckles.
Page 5: Warranty
Warranty Legacy Audio supports its customers and products with pride. We cheerfully warrant our loud- speaker products we manufacture from defects in materials and workmanship for a period of seven (7) years. Electronic components such as internal amplifiers and digital processors are covered for three (3)years.
Page 6: Speaker Installation
Speaker Installation Select the wall locations for the Silhouette system. Try to create a 60 degree angle hori zo ntally between the speaker pair, relative to the listening position. This usually results in a 10 foot horizontal spread between the speakers, center to center.
Page 7: Silhouette On Wall Installation
Silhouette On Wall Installation...
Page 8: Silhouette Pro On Wall Installation
Silhouette Pro On Wall Installation When mounting Silhouette Pro flat on the wall, use the included pair of Z- Clips as shown with the longer bar clip anchored to wall studs. Silhouette Pro Rear...
Page 9: Silhouette Pro In Wall Installation
Silhouette Pro In Wall Installation Wall Substrate/ Drywall After positioning the speakers, use a drywall saw to cut an opening slightly larger than the 12.15" x 35.5" cabinet body. The outer baffle is 37" long and 17.5" wide. Six mounting screws are to be installed through the center of the grille cups into the wall framing.
Page 10: Hooking Up Cables
Hooking Up Cables The ideal conductor would have negligible resistance, inductance and capacitance. The table below shows how a few actual speaker cables measure up. Cable s/ft pF/ft µH/ft 12 ga. 0.0033 0.21 14 ga. 0.0048 0.13 16 ga. 0.0079 0.18 18 ga.
Page 11 Hooking Up Cables What about phase shift due to frequency dependent travel times down the speaker cable? Measurements show that 100 Hz waves will be delayed about 20 billionths of a second behind 10 kHz waves when traveling to the end of a 10 foot speaker cable. Since the cilia of the ear requires 25,000 times longer than this just to transmit phase information, phase shifting is obviously not the primary concern when considering speaker cables.
Page 12 Amplification Ideally the loudspeaker would be among the first components selected when assembling a play- back system. This would allow the user to choose an amplifier capable of delivering adequate amounts of current into the frequency dependent load presented by the loudspeaker. However, when upgrading a system, audiophiles may find themselves matching their new loudspeakers to their existing amplification.
Page 13 Amplification How much power will your new speakers need? That ultimately depends on your listening environment and musical tastes. As little as five watts per channel should drive them to a level satisfactory for background music. A typical 45 watt per channel receiver may fill a room with the compressed mid-band energy of “heavy metal,”...
Page 14 Amplification When an amplifier is unable to fulfill your loudspeakers demands, a damaging harmonic spike may be leaked to the high frequency drivers. Another important point regarding loudness is that the dB scale is a logarithmic one. This means that a 150 Watt amplifier will potentially sound only twice as loud as a 15 Watt amplifier.
Page 15: Speaker Connections
The Terminal Plate At the rear of each of your Silhouette loudspeakers you will find a terminal plate housing one pair of binding posts. Hook the high level speaker inputs from the main amplifier to the pair of binding post. Be sure that you observe polarity when making the connections.
Page 16: Developing A Reference Class On-Wall
They needed to be as dynamic as premium floor monitors, low in and profile, and fire above the workstation desktop height. The development of the Silhouette speaker required a new 10” bass driver with a powerful motor design, yet only 3.5 inches of total depth. A rugged new 10” passive radiator with compliance optimized to extend response in the compact enclosure.
Page 17 Developing a Reference Class On-Wall However, since we know the user is attaching them to a boundary, we then can factor the natural woofer phase accumulation in this problematic region as an integral part of the low pass filter of the 10” and high pass filter of the 7”. Customarily a second-order high pass and low pass filter electrical filter (crossover) are 180 degrees out of phase at the center frequency.
Page 18 Developing a Reference Class On-Wall In summary, the natural dip in frequency response that wall mounted speakers suffer is the result of phase difference between the direct radiation and the boundary reflection at the listener. Legacy employs the additional filter poles created by this acoustic phenomenon within the crossover strategy to advantage, thereby greatly reducing the dip while reducing the electrical losses of conventional filter poles.
Page 19: Developing A Reference Class On-Wall
Developing a Reference Class On-Wall On a personal level I have been curiously surprised by the depth of image and precision the Silhouette provides. I honestly did not realize that an on-wall could be this convincing spatially. Hmmm. Learn something new every day.
Page 20: Specifications
Specifications Three way, passive radiator System Type: Mounting: Wall mount with bracket System Directivity: 60 degrees horizontally, 45 degrees vertically 4” AMT Tweeter: Midwoofer: 7" Silver/Graphite Bass: 10" long throw low-profile motor Low frequency alignment: 10" passive radiator 42Hz – 28kHz Frequency Response: Sensitivity (Room dB@2.83V): 92 dB...
Page 21 WEEE Compliance CE Declaration of Conformity Product Disposal— Certain international, national Legacy Audio and/or local laws and/or 3023 E. Sangamon Ave. regulations may apply regarding Springfield, IL 62702 USA the disposal of this product. For 800-283-4644 further detailed information, States that this product is in conformity with the please contact the retailer where with the essential requirements and other relevant you purchased this product or...
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