Specifications
ARCHITECT
Model 1600 SE
Model 1601 SE
Installer’s Guide
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Another set of variables is the shape and volume of your listening
room. Large rooms require more bass energy to excite waves within
them. Small rooms need less energy, but reect it differently. And then
there’s the fact that most rooms don’t have four walls anymore, but
open into dining rooms, lofts, cathedral ceilings, etc. All of this means
that predicting sound interaction patterns is very difcult due to the ir-
regularities of the room shape.
As you can see, room acoustics is an important but complicated
subject To learn more about room acoustics, get a copy of AudioCon-
trol’s Technical Paper 107, “Small Room Acoustics De-Mythologized”.
You can download this paper from www.audiocontrol.com or if you’re
still into the printed page, call us and we’ll mail you a copy. The overall
point that we’re trying to make is that the various rooms in your home
function as gigantic mechanical equalizers, boosting or cutting certain
frequencies depending on size, shape, volume, acoustic treatment and
the position of the speakers.
Audio Analysis Using Pink Noise
It may take several series of adjustments since there is some interac-
tion between each control. We have included some sample settings here
and general descriptions of each control’s function further on page 15
.
After initial adjustment the only time you would change the control
settings are 1) if you connect different speakers into the system, 2) if
(assuming the speakers aren’t built-in) you move them signicantly,
such as from a bookshelf to oor stands, or 3) if your room acoustics
change through rearrangement of furniture, wall or oor
coverings, large hairy dogs, etc.
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Audio Analysis
Using Pink Noise
Example Settings