Legacy Step One Owner's Manual - page 10
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2. Did you know the amount of bass that you hear is strongly dependent
on the size of your listening room?
Larger rooms can require much more low frequency power from a
loudspeaker than smaller rooms. The cubic volume of your room
determines how much your speaker’s output will be reinforced.
STEP ONE provides a spectral control below 125 Hz, following the natural
taper of room gain. For the first time, you’ll actually be able to match your
system’s bass volume to your room’s cubic volume with the turn of a
single knob.
3. Our research has shown that in most listening rooms system channel
separation is nearly nonexistent below
500 Hz. In fact, the signal reaching your right ear is likely to contain just as
much left channel information as right channel information. As reverberant
field energy becomes dominant, clarity and imaging suffer severely. In the
natural free field, the human hearing mechanism is provided nearly 6 dB
of separation in this range to localize sounds properly. The wall bounded
listening environment masks this critical information.