Verify Audio Incorporated Parsifal Ovation Owner's Manual - page 6
PARSIFAL OVATION
OWNER’S MANUAL
R.1.0
April 2005
VERITY AUDIO
PAGE 6
To identify a proper location for the installation of your
monitors, please refer to the Room Placement section of this
manual or follow the recommendations of your dealer.
Carefully place the granite platform on your support with the
four edges suiting your monitor angles. The four sorbothane
pads should be adequately seated. Once the speakers are
properly installed on their stands, connect them to the
amplifier using quality speaker cables. Make sure that the
polarities are respected at both ends and that your cables are
installed in the proper direction. The positive input is identified
by a red dot located on the connector plate.
For vacuum tube equipments that have multiple output
impedance taps, the eight-ohm taps should provide the best
interface with the Parsifal Monitor.
Woofer Installation
This section will assist you in assembling and connecting the
complete Parsifal Ovation. If you own the Parsifal Monitors
without the Parsifal Woofers, please refer to the previous
section or skip to next section.
To identify a proper location for the installation of your
Parsifal, please refer to the Room Placement section of this
manual or follow the recommendations of your dealer.
Place your woofer cabinets to their respective locations. Adjust
the underneath spikes to level each cabinet, then secure your
adjustment by firmly tightening the locking nuts. Carefully
place the granite platforms on each cabinet top by matching
the edge angles. Seat each monitor on their respective granite
platform. Your sandwiched woofer-monitor assembly should
now align and match perfectly.
Shut off your power amplifier(s). At the back of your Parsifal,
there are three sets of binding post connectors. In each
connector set, screw-in halfway all the connector posts.
Connect the bottom binding posts to your power amplifier
using a high-quality speaker cable. With the supplied jumping
wires, connect your monitor binding posts to the woofer upper
set of binding posts. Make sure that the polarities are respected
at both ends. The positive polarity is clearly identified by a red
dot located on each connector set. Speaker cables should
always be installed according to the manufacturer’s
recommendations.
If your power amplifier has multiple output impedance taps,
the eight-ohm taps usually provide a better match with the
Parsifal.
Do not biwire your Parsifal. When hooked to the Parsifal
Woofers, the Parsifal Monitors must be high-pass filtered at all
time. Bypassing this filter section will limit the dynamic range
of the system and will cause midrange overloading as well as
nonlinear behaviors at high-power levels
Room Placement
Indoors, acoustic intelligibility is of great concern for a variety
of reasons. It requires low background noise levels and “good”
acoustical design. In any room, the reverberant sound pressure
level increases as the acoustic power increases and decreases
as sound absorption in the room increases and / or sound
power flows from the room. The sound field in a room is
composed of two parts, the direct field and the reverberant
field.
The complex theories of physical acoustics, the uncertainties
in predicting the property variations of both natural and
manufactured room materials, and the none negligible effects
of painting, sealing, bracing, furring, and draping all keep the
specification and prediction of room acoustics from being an
exact science. Adding together, loudspeaker characteristics, the
auditory personal taste, and ergonomics, makes, by practical
means, the equation impossible to solve. The frequent need to
evaluate the final result by listening rather than by purely
quantitative methods gives acoustical tuning a somewhat
subjective aspect.
Nevertheless, knowing what the Parsifal is capable to do will
be your major asset in establishing the best setup for your
loudspeaker. Here are a few simple rules that will guide you:
A good setup will give you fast transients from bottom-end to
top-end, proper image height and a wide and deep soundstage.
Having that in mind, the following guidelines are based on our
own experience with the Parsifal. We recommend you to start
with these and later on (after getting familiar with your Parsifal)
bring your own modifications that will optimize your setup.
First, the distance from the rear wall to the speaker front baffle
of your speaker (midrange center) should be equaled to the
height of your room times 0.62.
Then follow the following instructions according to your own
room characteristics:
1. Your sitting position will be within ten feet (3 meters)
from your loudspeakers
Your setup will be according to the equilateral principle.
To form an equilateral triangle, the angle between you
and your two speakers shall be 60 degrees. If you cannot
evaluate it, simply measure the distance from the center
Over tightening the connectors could cause
permanent damage
Over tightening the connectors could cause
permanent damage