Sunfire CRS-3 User 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. 
2.    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 
sub woof er. The bass will sound the 
best when you are sitting in your 
normal lis ten ing position.
The Cinema Ribbon Trio loud-
speakers are designed to be used 
with a subwoofer to fi ll in the lower 
frequency range. They are not 
designed to accept 440 watts of power at 
the full frequency range.
Your system should be designed so 
that the Cinema Ribbon Trio loudspeak-
ers receive only the range above 80 Hz, 
with a subwoofer to handle the frequen-
cies below 80 Hz.
Sunfi re home theater processors and 
receivers have a bass man age ment 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 
im proved, as subwoofers, such as 
Sunfi re's powered True Subwoofers 
are specially de signed for this 
frequency range. 
•      The subwoofer can si mul ta neous ly 
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 
po si tion 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 
re pro duce the low fre quen cy range. 
This leads to a saving in room 
space.
•      Your amplifi ers do not waste power 
re pro ducing the low frequency 
range.
Using a subwoofer