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SV Subwoofers
OWNERS’
GUIDE
SVS “Powered Cylinder,
Improved” (PCi) ™
SVS Models: 16-46PCi 20-39PCi 25-31PCi
• Contents:
• Page 1 Welcome
• Page 2 About your new SV Subwoofer
• Pages 4-7 Setup, integration, and calibration
• Page 7-8 Powered Cylinder amp features
• Pages 9-10 Bass demos for your home theater
• Page 11 Home theater terms
• Page 12 Warranty
Last update: 13 March 2001
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Page 2 SV Subwoofers Welcome. From the entire SVS team, congratulations on your purchase of a new standard in home theater and music bass! Your sub isn’t some generic black box built someplace you can’t even find on a map. It’s made in Ohio, (as in USA), by home audio fanat- ics... like you. Designed, tested and assembled by hand, your SV Sub- woofer is without a doubt one of the best investments you’ll ever make in bringing theater home. We’ll help you to set up your sub r
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Page 3 SV Subwoofers About your SV Subwoofer No powered subwoofers look anything like them, and virtually none work like them either. SV Subwoofers are decidedly different. The best part? You could have spent much more and still not come close to the same bass performance our Powered Cylinder line gives you. But what makes a subwoofer an SVS? Quality components, sane prices. You might be surprised at how inexpensive the components in some not-so-inexpensive subwoofers are. Make
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Page 4 SV Subwoofers Setup, calibrating and integration What’s to know? Well, first of all, setting up an SV Subwoofer is pretty darn easy. There are a few key things to get right though, if you want to get the most out of your sub… Unpacking. You’re probably eager to fire up your sub (we’re the same way), but take time to carefully unpack your sub. Set the box and other protective shipping coverings aside, just in case you need to return the sub for any reason. Location. T
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Page 5 SV Subwoofers More Setup, calibrating and integration If you are running a pair of SV Subwoofers (fig. 2), you will need to use a standard “Y” cable adapter (c.) The best adaptor to use for this task has one male RCA connection and two female RCA outputs. (Radio Shack ® stocks them.) From the “Y” cable you can run a stan- dard 75 Ohm signal cable (d.) to each sub thus “splitting” the Low Fre- quency Effects (LFE) and other bass signals from your receiver, thus feeding both subw
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Page 6 SV Subwoofers “Large”. Selecting the size accordingly will ensure bass goes to most appro- priate speakers, and use the subwoofer correctly too. Also, is your sub- woofer turned “ON”? We don’t mean “is your subwoofer amplifier on?” (that’ll be important later too!) but rather, is your receiver sending a bass signal to your sub amp? This can only happen if you say “Yes” (or “ON”) to the “Subwoofer” setting of any typical Dolby Digital/DTS capable receiver. • Is your receiver co
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Page 7 SV Subwoofers keep input distortion to a minimum, however you should not be set much lower than –5 dB recommended earlier, some adjustment room is needed to tweak down the road. If your subwoofer reading is still too high then turn down the sub’s amp volume a little with each run. But what’s “too high”?? Tastes vary, and so do movie soundtracks, but your SVS is capable of tremendous levels of low distortion, low frequency bass — far more than most commercial subs. Take advant
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Page 8 SV Subwoofers Phase. Think of bass waves as conflicting or enhancing each other, depending on the timing of their arrival at your listening location (either together, or not). Since some of your room’s bass might come from main, center and/or surround speakers, as well as your sub, getting these bass wave forms to arrive in a complementary, enhancing fash- ion is the difficult job of the phase switch. Essentially, this control varies the timing of the bass waves coming from the s
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Page 9 SV Subwoofers Bassy demo scenes to die for. So now what?? You’ve got one of the best HT bass sub-systems on the planet, you’re calibrated...want to see what she’ll do? Sure you do! Since finding those scenes can be a bit trying, we’ve compiled a list of our favorites below. After all, calibration with test tones is important, but it’s the movies (and music) this sub is itching to show off. Chapter stops for DVDs are shown, with movie time in hours: minutes: seconds. What are
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Page 10 SV Subwoofers More Bassy demo scenes. • “Titanic” You love it...or you hate it. Regardless of which side of the ship you sit, this flick does some serious rumbling for you: 1. “We can’t leave him” Scene 22 (2:21:50) 2. “Ship Splitting” (2:41:30) “Last Gasp” (2:42:05) 3. • “Blade” Not one for the kiddies, but loaded with deep bass. 1. “Footstep”, Scene 4 (7:15) 2. “Door blown” Scene 20 (50:05) • “Aliens” Not just another modern sci-fi horror classic, this one rocks from
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Page 11 SV Subwoofers A Glossary of Home Theater Terms Frankly, don’t feel guilty if you want to skip over the below. But if you are curious about just what some of the terms and abbreviations stand for, read on: dB - Short for “deci-Bell” a unit of sound, a 3dB increase takes twice the acoustic power to attain! DD - “Dolby Digital”, the most popular form of digital surround sound, usually found on DVD soundtracks. Actually a compression algorithm that can provide 1 to 6 channels
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Warranty: 45-day money back warranty. If you are not completely satis- fied with the performance of your subwoofer, return it to us for a full refund of the purchase price. Just a few minor stipulations should you choose to do this: • Subwoofer must be returned in original shipping box. • E-mail for return of merchandise number (RMA) and display this on the outside of the box. • Subwoofer must be insured during shipping (SVS may ar- range UPS pickup to ease any shipping dama
