Instruction/ maintenance manual of the product VR-5 Von Schweikert Audio
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1 V V O O N N S S C C H H W W E E I I K K E E R R T T A A U U D D I I O O W W O O R R L L D D - - C C L L A A S S S S S S P P E E A A K K E E R R S S Y Y S S T T E E M M S S F F O O R R A A U U D D I .
2 TABLE OF CONTE NTS I MPORTANT NOTES........................................................................................................PAGE 3 BREAK-I N..............................................................................................
3 IMPORTANT NOTES : Please read the following instructions regarding setup, as i maging and bass response must be optimized to y our particular room. Since every listening room will have di fferent dimensional ratios and reflective/absorptive coefficients, ea ch setup will be different.
4 SETUP 1. P lease do not install the spikes until the proper placem ent has been determ ined . If you try to move the speakers around with the spi kes installed, you can damage your floor and/or rip out the spikes, so please be careful and install th e spikes only when you are confident that the speakers have been placed i n the proper position.
5 the best image focus and widest s ound stage. However , sinc e y our tas te ma y var y , y ou may wel l pre fe r the extra depth achieved with no toe in; i.
6 CARPETED FLOORS : Install the spikes after break in – this is easily acco mpl ish ed with tw o peo ple , one t ipping the speaker back while the other ins talls the spikes. Be careful not to let the M/T unit f all off the woofer module! If on e person installs the spikes, remove the M/T modules before attempting to install the spikes.
7 and capacitors generate a hi gh im pedance to bass frequencies -- it’s like pour in g wa te r on the side of a hill: the water will never travel uphill against gravity ! WOOFER MODULE BI NDING POS.
8 HORIZ ONTAL BI -AMP I NG: I f two differ ent stere o a mps are ava ilable, one amp can drive the woofers and the other amp, perhaps of lower power, can drive the M/T’s. This works well with large solid state amps driving the woofe rs, with a smaller tube a mp driving the upper end.
9 crossover circuit, which achieves the desired phase-consistent sound field over a wide listening area. I f you must situate the speakers close t ogether, with a close lis tening position for near fi.
10 pink noise “ball.” I f y our former speakers were placed clo se together to achieve center fill , try spreading the VR-5’s further apart. Their wide dispersion enables a larg er sound stage.
11 BASS RES PONSE TUNING BACKGROUND INFORMATION: Sinc e en cl ose d ro oms will af fe c t the bass resp on se due to sta nd ing wave formation, a woofer tuning feature has been designed into the VR series of speakers.
12 of the f ront wa ll, rear wa ll, side walls, and the f loor. These reflections both re inforce and cancel the original direct wave, de pending on the wave length vs.
13 B). If t he frequency range between 20-30Hz sounds too powerful i n y our particular room, simply place a large handful of the Dacron i n each vent tub e; this will lower the efficiency of the vent tunin g . I f the bass is still t oo loud, place another handful in each vent.
TROUBLE SHOOTING Your VR dealer s hould have the necessary resources to investi gate any problem s y ou may expe ri en ce when sett ing up a world class reference system.
which are th e bou ndary surfaces halfway between the list ener and the speaker cabinets. This inc lu de s the ceiling, walls, and floor. Hard plaster ceilings will reflect treble energy back down towards the listener, and should be treated with acoustic ti les (the soft and porous type ) or dampi ng pads made from foam or fiberglass.
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