Owner's Manual
Table Of Contents
- Owner’s Manual
- Table of Contents
- Floorstanding Speakers — Attaching Carpet Spikes or Rubber Caps
- Bookshelf / Center Channel Speakers — Applying Rubber Pads
- Your New Speakers
- Preventing Speaker Damage
- Room Acoustics
- Placement: Front Left & Right Speakers
- Placement: The Center Speaker
- Placement: Surround/Rear Speakers
- Wiring
- Standard Connection (Premier 100B and 200B)
- Other Connection Options
- Fine Tuning
- Troubleshooting Guide
- Limited Warranty
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Passive bi-amping offers a dramatic improvement in clarity, openness and
detail, with much better bass solidity and definition. The presentation of
music and movie soundtracks is simply more intelligible and transparent.
With passive bi-amping, the speaker’s internal passive crossovers remain
connected. An external electronic crossover is not required and cannot
be used (there is no direct electrical access to individual drive units). This
saves expense and setup difficulties. Passive bi-amping optimizes your
speaker to achieve the best possible high-end performance.
To bi-amplify, two power amplifiers are required. Connection can be
either vertical or horizontal.
Horizontal Bi-amplification (shown) dedicates one amplifier to your
speakers’ mid/low-frequency inputs and another to their high-frequency
inputs. This configuration can maintain better clarity when listening at loud
levels—if low-frequency demands cause amplifier clipping, distortion will
still be kept away from high-frequency drivers. Connect your speakers to
one amplifier at a time.
Vertical Bi-amplification (not shown) dedicates one amplifier to each
speaker. This configuration provides complete channel separation,
which optimizes your system’s imaging ability. Connect your speakers
to one amplifier at a time.
OTHER CONNECTION OPTIONS (cont’d)