Owners Manual For The Silhouette Loudspeaker System
Table of Contents Registration Owners Record The Cabinetry / Our Commitment Warranty Setup Speaker Installation Silhouette On Wall Installation Silhouette Pro On Wall Installation Silhouette Pro In Wall Installation Hooking Up Cables Amplification Speaker Connections Technology Specifications 2 Page 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10-11 12-14 15 16
Owners Record Thank you for selecting a Legacy Loudspeaker System. These handcrafted instruments will provide you with many years of listening enjoyment. Share your Legacy speakers with the Legacy community. Post your Legacy experience and system photos at facebook.com/LegacyAudio Like the page to continue receiving the latest Legacy announcements. The serial number is located on the rear of the unit. Record this number in the space provided below.
The Cabinetry / Our Commitment Handcrafted Beneath the surface of Silhouette’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.
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.
Speaker Installation Select the wall locations for the Silhouette system. Try to create a 60 degree angle horizontally between the speaker pair, relative to the listening position. This usually results in a 10 foot horizontal spread between the speakers, center to center. Recommended mounting height for the loudspeaker puts the wall bracket screw holes at 61.5" off the floor. This may be adjusted slightly to acommodate the sight lines of the monitor.
Silhouette On Wall Installation When mounting Silhouette flat on the wall, use the included pair of Z- Clips as shown with the longer bar clip anchored to wall studs.
Silhouette Pro On Wall Installation When mounting Silhouette Pro flat on the wall, use the included pair of Z- Clips as shown with the longer bar clip anchored to wall studs.
Silhouette Pro In Wall Installation Wall Substrate/ Drywall After positioning the speakers, use a drywall saw to cut an opening slightly larger than the 12.15" x 35.5" cabinet body. The outer baffle is 37" long and 17.5" wide. Six mounting screws are to be installed through the center of the grille cups into the wall framing. Care should be taken to avoid electrical or plumbing before cutting into wall or installing screws into studs.
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.
Speaker Connections The Terminal Plate At the rear of each of your Silhouette loudspeakers you will find a terminal plate housing one pair of binding posts. Hook the high level speaker inputs from the main amplifier to the pair of binding post. Be sure that you observe polarity when making the connections. The positive (+) terminal of the amplifier should be connected to the positive terminal of the loudspeaker.
Specifications System Type: Three way, passive radiator Mounting: Wall mount with bracket System Directivity: 60 degrees horizontally, 45 degrees vertically Tweeter: Midwoofer: Bass: 4” AMT 7" Silver/Graphite 10" long throw low-profile motor Low frequency alignment: 10" passive radiator Frequency Response: 42Hz – 28kHz Sensitivity (Room dB@2.83V): 92 dB Crossover Frequency: Inputs: 250, 2.5k 1 pair binding posts, recessed cup Dimensions (H x W x D): 36.5” X 16.5” X 5.
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