Sunfire HRS-SAT4 User Manual

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User's Manual
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Subwoofer Location 
The best location for a single 
subwoofer can be found by following 
these steps: 
1.  Place the subwoofer on your couch 
or favorite easy-listening chair. 
.  You can then either run a calibra-
tion (noise) signal through it, or  
play some of your favorite music 
samples with heavy bass.
3.  Walk around the room, standing in 
all the positions where you might 
be able to place the subwoofer. 
This is usually somewhere close 
to the corners of the room. Try 
locations fairly close to the front 
loudspeakers, and try crouching 
down low.
4.  Find the place in the room where 
the bass output from the subwoofer 
is most even. Shut things down and 
install the subwoofer there.
5.   This is the best position for the 
subwoofer. The bass will sound the 
best when you are sitting in your 
normal listening position.
The loudspeakers are designed 
to be used with a subwoofer to 
fill in the lower frequency range. 
They are not designed to accept 
00 watts of power at the full frequency 
range.
The Sunfire High Resolution Series 
subwoofers are a perfect match for the 
satellite and center loudspeakers. Three 
subwoofer models are available: HRS-8, 
HRS-10, and HRS-1.
Your system should be designed so 
that the satellite and center loudspeakers 
receive only the range above 95 Hz, with 
a subwoofer to handle the frequencies 
below 95 Hz.
Sunfire home theater processors and 
receivers have a bass management sys-
tem that allows you to redirect the bass 
frequency range of each channel to the 
subwoofer. The advantages are : 
• 
The overall bass of the system is 
improved, as subwoofers, such as 
Sunfire's powered HRS subwoofers 
are specially designed for this 
frequency range. 
• 
The subwoofer can simultaneously 
play the bass from all of the loud-
speakers, in addition to it’s own low 
frequency effects channel (LFE). 
• 
There is no loss in perception of the 
position of movie or music sound 
effects, as the ear cannot easily 
locate the position of bass sound 
sources.
• 
Compact loudspeakers can be 
used for front, center and sur-
rounds, as they do not have to 
reproduce the low frequency range. 
This leads to a saving in room 
space.
• 
Your amplifiers do not waste power 
reproducing the low frequency 
range.
Using a subwoofer