Legacy Empire Owner's Manual - For The Tweakers
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For the Tweakers
Your Legacy loudspeaker is a true reference monitor designed
to reproduce all program material with an absolute minimum of
coloration. Occasionally we encounter a customer who simply
has a characteristic sound that he or she desires to achieve.
Rather than take on the close-minded position that this customer
is wrong an simply has one oar in the water, we would prefer to
offer our assistance.
We have found that the human ear is incredibly sensitive in
the range of 3 kHz. In fact, at some listening levels the ear is as
much as 15 dB more sensitive than at neighboring frequencies.
Therefore, a peaky studio microphone may occasionally raise the
hair on one’s neck. (One needs only to listen to the Stereophile
microphone test CD to find out just how bad some microphones
really are).
It seems that the presence band of 3 kHz to 8 kHz effectively
dictates the degree of forwardness, depth, detail, brightness, or
sweetness of a recording. Because of the sensitivity of this range,
we allow you some small adjustment.
The rear panel switch located near the binding posts may be
placed in the “down” position to reduce brightness in this region.
Mid Treble
Reduction
Switch
Down position
provides 2 dB of cut.