Summary of Silverscreen II
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2 registration 3. Owners record 4. The cabinetry / our commitment setup 5. Unpacking your speakers 6. Speaker placement / installation 8. Hook up cables 9. Amplification 12. Speaker connections 13. Fine tuning technology 14. Designer’s note 16. Specifications.
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3 the model and serial numbers are located on the rear of the unit. Record these numbers in the spaces provided below. Refer to them when calling upon your dealer regarding this product. Model no. _______________________________ serial no. _______________________________ date of purchase: __________...
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4 handcrafted beneath the surface of silver screen ii’s elegant exterior lies rigid mdf construction. Interlocking joinery maximizes the strength of the cabinet parts. Polyester fiberfill is selected for internal damping. A sharp rap on the enclosure will leave you with little more than bruised knuc...
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5 your new speaker system has been very carefully packaged to insure that it travels to you safely. Each speaker is protected by a double-wall outer carton with heavy v-board corner protectors. Molded foam end caps are used to protect the elegant cabinetry, and a plastic liner is provided as waterpr...
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6 to allow more flexibility in seating arrangements, your legacy loudspeaker is designed for broad lateral coverage. Optimal listener position is actually about 5 to 15 degrees off of the axis normal to the loudspeaker baffle (approximately 4-5’ off the floor). Your legacy speaker is optimized for a...
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7 the ideal conductor would have negligible resistance, inductance and capacitance. The table below shows how a few actual speaker cables measure up. Cable Ωs/ft pf/ft µh/ft 12 ga. 0.0033 24 0.21 14 ga. 0.0048 17 0.13 16 ga. 0.0079 16 0.18 18 ga. 0.0128 28 0.21 capacitance is considered insignifican...
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8 what about phase shift due to frequency dependent travel times down the speaker cable? Measurements show that 100 hz waves will be delayed about 20 billionths of a second behind 10 khz waves when traveling to the end of a 10 foot speaker cable. Since the cilia of the ear requires 25,000 times long...
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9 ideally the loudspeaker would be among the first components selected when assembling a playback system. This would allow the user to choose an amplifier capable of delivering adequate amounts of current into the frequency dependent load presented by the loudspeaker. However, when upgrading a syste...
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10 how much power will your new speakers need? That ultimately depends on your listening environment and musical tastes. As little as five watts per channel should drive them to a level satisfactory for background music. A typical 45 watt per channel receiver may fill a room with the compressed mid-...
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11 when an amplifier is unable to fulfill your loudspeakers demands, a damaging harmonic spike may be leaked to the high frequency drivers. Another important point regarding loudness is that the db scale is a logarithmic one. This means that a 150 watt amplifier will potentially sound only twice as ...
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12 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 “subwoofer” portion of the speaker. When left in place, the factory-installed...
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13 to facilitate proper set-up of your speakers in a variety of room situations, we have included several heavy duty toggle switches on the terminal plate, located on the back of the loudspeaker. All switches in the “up” position represent the “anechoic flat” position. Switch 1: is a low frequency q...
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14 how many times have you missed a critical line of film dialogue over muffled or tinny sounding tv speakers? Have you ever found yourself cranking up the volume to an aggravating level just to avoid missing the plot? High school geometry taught us that a location in free space can be specified by ...
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15 midrange information is delivered by a 1.25” soft textile dome positioned strategically below the ribbon tweeter. Vocals are silky smooth with incredible articulation free of any harshness. If you require some attenuation, simply throw switch 3 in the down position. All midbass is masterfully con...
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16 system type: 4 drivers, 3 way. Tweeter: 4” ribbon. Midrange: 1.25” soft textile dome. Midwoofer: (2) 7” kevlar®. Low frequency alignment: b4 reflex. Sensitivity: 98 db @ 2.83 v/1m. Frequency response: 48 hz - 30 khz +/- 2 db. Crossover frequency (hz): 2.2k, 12k. Recommended amplification: 10 - 30...
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17 notes:.
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18 © 2003 legacy audio 150 locust street. Macungie, pa 18062 phone: 610 965 0494 fax: 610 965 4915.