SVS 16-46PC Manual

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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 Bass demos for your home theater �...

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For technical assistance e-mail us at “[email protected]” Page 2 Welcome. From the entire SVS team, congratulations on your purchase of a new standard in home theater bass! Your SVS isn’t some generic black box built so...

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Page 3 About your SV Subwoofer SV Subwoofers No powered subwoofers look anything like them, and virtually none work like them either. SV Subwoofers are decidedly different. The best part? You could have spent much more and still not come clo...

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For technical assistance e-mail us at “[email protected]” Page 4 Setup, calibrating and integration W hat’s to know? Well, first of all, setting up an SV Subwoofer is pretty darn easy. There are a few key things to get right thou...

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If you are running a pair of SV Subwoofers (fig. 2), you will need to use a standard “Y” cable adapter (c.) The best adaptor to use for this task has one male RCA connection and two female RCA outputs. (Radio Shack ® stocks them.) From th...

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SV Subwoofers Page 6 “Large”. Selecting the size accordingly will ensure bass goes to most appropriate speakers, and use the subwoofer correctly too. Also, is your subwoofer turned “ON”? We don’t mean “is your subwoofer amplifier ...

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Page 7 significantly lower your sub’s volume control. This helps keep input distor- tion to a minimum, however you should not be set much lower than –5 dB recommended earlier, some adjustment room is needed to tweak down the road. If your su...

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SV Subwoofers Page 8 Phase. Think of bass waves as conflicting or enhancing each other, depending on the timing of their arrival at your listening location (either together, or not). Since some of your HT bass might come from main, center and/...

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SV Subwoofers Page 9 Bassy demo scenes to die for. S o now what?? You’ve got one of the best HT bass sub-systems on the planet, you’re calibrated...want to see what she’ll do? Sure you do! Since finding those scenes can be a bit trying, ...

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SV Subwoofers Page 10 More Bassy demo scenes. • “Titanic” You love it...or you hate it. Regardless of which side of the ship you sit, this flick does some serious rumbling for you: 1. 1.1. 1. “We can’t leave him” Scene 22 (2:21:5...

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SV Subwoofers Page 11 A Glossary of Home Theater Terms Frankly, don’t feel guilty if you want to skip over the below. But if you are curious about just what some of the terms and abbreviations stand for, read on: dB - Short for “deci-Be...

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Fax: 330-793-8183 Email: [email protected] SV Subwoofers LLC P.O. Box 8423 Reston, VA 20195 SV Subwoofers Warranty: 45 day money back warranty. If you are not completely satis- fied with the performance of your subwoofer, retur...