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O WNERS ’ G UIDE • Contents : • Page 1 Welcome • Page 2 About your new SV Subwoofer • Pages 4-7 Setup, integration, and calibration • Page 7-8 Powered Cylinder amp features • Pages 9 -10 Ba ss demos f or your home theate r • Page 11 Home theater terms • Page 12 War ranty SVS “Powered Cylinders” ™ Last update 25 Fe bruary 200[...]
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For tech nical assistance e-mail us at “Custsuppor t@S VSubwoofers.com” Page 2 We l c o m e . F rom the entir e SVS te am, c ongra tulat ions o n yo ur pur chas e of a new standard in h ome theater bass! Your SVS isn’t so me generic black box built someplace you can’t even find on a m ap. It’s made in Ohio, (as in USA), by home audio fana[...]
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Page 3 About y our S V Sub woof er SV Subwoofers No pow ered s ubwoofe rs look a nything lik e them , and virt ually none w ork like them either. S V Subwoofers are d ecidedl y different. The best p art? You could have spen t much more and still not come c lose to the s ame bass pe rform ance our Powe red Cylinde r line giv es y ou. But what make s[...]
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For tech nical assistance e-mail us a t “Support@SVSubwoofers.com” Page 4 Setup, cal ibrati ng and int egrati on W hat’s to know? W ell, first of all, setti ng up an SV Sub woofer is pretty darn easy. There are a few key things to g et right though , if you want to get the most o ut of yo ur sub … U npac king. You’re probably eager to f i[...]
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If you are running a pai r of SV Subwoof ers (fig . 2), you will n eed to use a st andard “Y” cable adapter (c.) The best adapt or to use for this task has one mal e RCA connecti on and tw o femal e RCA outputs . (Radio Shack ® stocks th em.) From the “Y” cable you can run a stan- dard 75 Ohm signal cable (d.) to each sub thus “splitti n[...]
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SV Subwoofers Page 6 “Large”. Selecting the size accor dingly will ensure bass goes to most approp riate speakers, an d use the sub woofer correctl y too. Also, i s y ou r subw oofer tur ned “ON” ? We do n’t me an “is y our subw oofer amplifier on?” (tha t’ll be im portan t later to o!) but ra ther, is your receiver send - ing a bas[...]
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Page 7 significa ntly lower your sub’s vo lume control. This he lps keep input d istor- tion to a m inim um, how ever y ou should not be s et muc h lower than –5 dB recommend ed earlier, so me adjustment roo m is needed t o tweak down the road. If y our subwoof er reading is still too high then t urn down the sub’s am p volume a little w ith [...]
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SV Subwoofers Page 8 Phase . Think of bass waves a s co nflicti ng or enh ancing each other, d ependin g on the tim ing of the ir arrival a t your listening location (e ither toge ther, or not). Since som e of your HT bass mi ght come f rom main, c enter and/ or surr ound speakers, as well as your sub , getting t hese bass wave for ms to arrive in [...]
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SV Subwoofers Page 9 Bassy dem o scenes to di e for . S o n ow what ?? You ’ve got on e of the best HT bass sub-sy stems on the planet, you’ re calibrated...want to see what she’ll do? Sure you do! Since finding those scenes can be a bit try ing, we’ve com pile d a list of our favorites below. After all, calibration with test tones is impor[...]
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SV Subwoofers Page 10 More Bassy d emo scenes. • “Titanic” You love it...or you hat e it. Regardless of whic h side of the ship you sit, this flic k does some serious rumbli ng for yo u: 1. 1. 1. 1. “We can’t leave h im” Scene 22 (2:21:50) 2. 2. 2. 2. “Ship Splitting” (2:41 :30) 3. 3. 3. 3. “Last Gasp” (2:42:05) • “ Blade”[...]
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SV Subwoofers Page 11 A Glossary of Hom e Theater T erms Frankly , don’t f eel guilty if y ou want to sk ip over the below . But if you are cu rious about jus t what some of the terms and abbrev iations stand for, read on : dB - Short for “deci-Bell” a unit of sound, a 3dB increas e takes twice the acoustic power to attain! DD - “Dolby Digi[...]
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Fax: 330-793- 8183 Email: Cus tsupp ort@S VSubwoofer s.com SV Sub woofers L LC P.O. Box 8423 Reston , VA 20195 SV Subwoofers Warranty: 45 day money back w arranty. If you are not completely satis- fied with the perform ance of your subwoof er, return it to us for a full refun d of the purchase price. Jus t a few minor s tipula- tions should you cho[...]