Legacy Empire Owner's Manual - Placement of Empire
Placement of Empire
Positioning Empire for good performance is quite a bit easier
than for most speakers. Remember that Empire is actually an
dipole with a highly controlled directivity pattern. Corner
placements are actually quite workable though not necessarily
optimal. Empire will not become “boomy” like a conventional
system and it will not interact strongly with the sidewalls of your
room.
Simple guidelines:
1.You may position the Empire speakers farther apart than most
other speakers.This will help to acoustically shadow the head
properly and maintain better channel separation. Experiment
with what works best in your room.
2.Toe In: In most circumstances crossing speaker axes just
behind the listener’s head works best.This will broaden your
sweetspot horizontally. If dispersing into an “L” shaped seating
arrangement, you might find the best results by aiming the left
speaker at the right-most seating position, and the right speaker
at the left-most speaker position.
3. Hearing natural ambience present in recordings while
minimizing effects from your room favors a listener position that
is no farther from the plane of the speakers than the geometric
width of your room. More simply, if the room is 16 feet wide,
then sitting closer than 16 feet will allow you to hear more of the
recording and less of your room.
Speaker Connections
At the rear of each of your loudspeakers you will find a terminal
plate housing two rows of jumpered binding posts. The upper
row is the input to the “satellite” portion of the speaker. The
lower row is the input to the “bass” portion of the speaker.When
left in place, the factory-installed jumper bars allow the speaker
to be driven with a single channel of amplification. If biamping,
or biwiring, be sure to remove the jumper bars. More on this
later!
Connect each channel of your amplifier to a loudspeaker via
the five-way gold binding posts provided. Dual banana plugs or
gold plated spade lugs are recommended means for termination.
Be sure that you observe polarity when making the
connections.The positive (+) terminal of the amplifier should be
connected to the positive terminal of the loudspeaker.The
negative (-) terminal of the amplifier should be connected to the
negative terminal of the loudspeaker.
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