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SV Subwoofers
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SVS Powered Cylinders
16-46PC 20-39PC 25-31PC
SVS Models
• 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 25 February 2001
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For technical assistance e-mail us at Custsupport@SVSubwoofers.com Page 2 Welcome. From the entire SVS team, congratulations on your purchase of a new standard in home theater bass! Your SVS isnt some generic black box built someplace you cant even find on a map. Its made in Ohio, (as in USA), by home audio fanatics, like you. Designed, tested and assembled by hand, this new subwoofer is without a doubt one of the best investments youll ever make in bringing theater hom
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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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For technical assistance e-mail us at Support@SVSubwoofers.com Page 4 Setup, calibrating and integration Whats 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. Youre probably eager to fire up your sub (were 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
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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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SV Subwoofers Page 6 Large. Selecting the size accordingly will ensure bass goes to most appropriate speakers, and use the subwoofer correctly too. Also, is your subwoofer turned ON? We dont mean is your subwoofer amplifier on? (thatll be important later too!) but rather, is your receiver send- ing 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 Digi- tal/DTS capable receiver. • Is your receiver co
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Page 7 SV Subwoofers significantly lower your subs volume control. This helps keep input distor- tion 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 subs amp volume a little with each run. But whats too high?? Tastes vary, and so do movie soundtracks, but your SV Subwoofer is capable of tremendous levels of low distortion,
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SV Subwoofers Page 8 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 HT bass might come from main, center and/or surround speakers, as well as your sub, getting these bass wave forms to arrive in a com- plementary, enhancing fashion is the difficult job of the phase knob. Essen- tially this control varies the timing of the bass waves coming from the sub.
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SV Subwoofers Page 9 Bassy demo scenes to die for. So now what?? Youve got one of the best HT bass sub-systems on the planet, youre calibrated...want to see what shell do? Sure you do! Since finding those scenes can be a bit trying, weve compiled a list of our favorites below. After all, calibration with test tones is important, but its 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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SV Subwoofers Page 10 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. 1. We cant leave him Scene 22 (2:21:50) 1. 1. 2. 2. 2. 2. Ship Splitting (2:41:30) 3. 3. 3. 3. Last Gasp (2:42:05) • 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
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SV Subwoofers Page 11 A Glossary of Home Theater Terms Frankly, dont 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 o
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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 stipula- tions should you choose to do this: • Subwoofer must be returned in original shipping box. • E-mail for return of merchandise number (RMA) and dis- play this on the outside of the box. • Subwoofer must be insured during shipping, • Shipping costs are not refundable. 3 year
