Owners Manual For The Deco Loudspeaker System
Table of Contents Registration Owners Record The Cabinetry / Our Commitment Warranty Setup Unpacking Your Speakers Speaker Installation Hooking Up Cables Amplification Page 3 4 5 6 7-9 10-12 13-15 Technology Specifications 16 2
Owners Record The serial number is located on the rear of the unit. Record this number in the space provided below. Refer to this when calling your dealer regarding this product. Model: Deco Serial No: _________________________ Date of purchase: ___________________ Thank you for selecting a Legacy Loudspeaker System. These handcrafted instruments will provide you with many years of listening enjoyment.
The Cabinetry / Our Commitment Handcrafted Beneath the surface of Phantom’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 knuckles. Each cabinet is impeccably finished on all exposed surfaces with select veneers. The exquisite finish is hand-rubbed several times to assure a patina at home with the most elegant decor.
Warranty Legacy Audio supports its customers and products with pride. We cheerfully warrant our loudspeaker products we manufacture from defects in materials and workmanship for a period of seven (7) years. Electronic components such as internal amplifiers and digital processors are covered for three (3)years. Please register your product with Legacy Audio. Should you require service Legacy will require a proof of purchase in order to honor the warranty - so please keep your receipt.
Unpacking Your Speakers Your new speaker system has been very carefully packaged to insure that it travels to you safely. Each speaker is protected by a doublewall 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 waterproofing. Please save this packing for future transportation. If cartons become damaged or misplaced, new ones can be purchased from Legacy Audio.
Speaker Installation Precautions If you have any doubts about your ability to properly install on-wall loudspeakers, you should consider the services of a custom installer. If you plan to install them yourself, always use high quality tools to save time and make the installation go more smoothly. The Deco On-Wall Loudspeakers mount on standard stud walls.
Speaker Installation When mounting the Deco Loudspeaker the bracket can be mounted vertically on one stud. Please see the diagram on the next page and place the provided screws in the appropriate holes.
Speaker Installation Vertical Mounting - Find the center of one stud and mount the provided bracket using the provided screws. Place screws in the holes highlighted in red in figure 2. - Lift the cabinet and slide the screws on the back of the cabinet into the keyholes. This may take two people to accomplish this task.
Hooking Up Cables Before you purchase loudspeaker wire, check local building codes to make sure that the wire is rated to comply with applicable local safety codes such as UL or CL-2. Use only stranded wire no thinner than AWG 16. For runs longer than 100 feet, we recommend minimum of AWG 14. When pulling wire, take care not to pull the wire too fast to prevent stretching the wire or scorching the insulation from friction.
Hooking Up Cables The ideal conductor would have negligible resistance, inductance and capacitance. The table below shows how a few actual speaker cables measure up. Cable 12 ga. 14 ga. 16 ga. 18 ga. Ωs/ft 0.0033 0.0048 0.0079 0.0128 pF/ft 24 17 16 28 µH/ft 0.21 0.13 0.18 0.21 Capacitance is considered insignificant in each cable because its effect is well out of the audio bandwidth; inductance can be decreased (at the expense of increased capacitance) by keeping the conductor pair closely spaced.
Hooking Up Cables 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 longer than this just to transmit phase information, phase shifting is obviously not the primary concern when considering speaker cables. What about resistance? Finally we are getting somewhere.
Amplification 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 system, audiophiles may find themselves matching their new loudspeakers to their existing amplification.
Amplification 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-band energy of “heavy metal,” but seem to lack weight or control with classical recordings.
Amplification 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 loud as a 15 Watt amplifier. If all of this discussion of power and loudness seems a bit abstract, consider the example below.
Specifications System Type: 2 driver, 2 way on-wall Tweeter: (1) 1" spiral ribbon Woofer: (2) x 8” Silver/Graphite woven diaphragm, cast basket, phase compensation plug Low Frequency Alignment: Vented, Boundary Compensated Frequency Response: 60Hz – 25 kHz Impedance: 4 Ohm Sensitivity: 91.5 dB Recommended Amplification: 25-200 Watts Crossover Frequency: 2.8k Binding Posts: 1 Pair Dimensions (H x W x D): 19.375” X 14” X 9.
WEEE Compliance CE Declaration of Conformity Product Disposal— Certain international, national and/or local laws and/or regulations may apply regarding the disposal of this product. For further detailed information, please contact the retailer where you purchased this product or the Legacy Audio Distributor in your country. A listing of Legacy Audio Distributors can be found on the Legacy Audio website www.legacyaudio.com or by contacting Legacy Audio at: 3023 E. Sangamon Ave.
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