Genesis 400 owners manual

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Set up guide
for The Genesis 400 System

Posltlonlng

Set the speakers approximately where you want them in the room. We recommend that
the loudspeakers be placed so they fire into the long dimension of the room. As
measured from the wall behind the loudspeakers. we suggest placing your Genesis
400's about 20% into the room. Example: if the length of the room is twenty feet (seven
and three quarter meters) the 400's should be about four feet from the wall.

Typical distances between the two speakers are six to seven feet (approximately two
and a half meters). Typical distance to sit away from the speaker is eight to nine feet
(three and a half meters).

We suggest you toe in the speakers. This means
that you should angle the speakers towards the
listener. Point them directly at your listening
position. This will help focus the center image.

Connect your amplifier

Use a high quality speaker cable to connect your
power amplifier with the set of binding posts on
the back of the Genesis 400. Hook up your
power amplifier. The top connector is + (plus or
red) and the bottom is - (minus or black).

You will notice a control on the back of the
speaker next to where you connected the
speaker cables. This is a volume control for the
front tweeter. Turning this control clockwise will
increase the level of the front tweeter. Use this
control if you need a bit more treble. Start with
this control at the one o'clock position.

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At this point. you are ready to play the system.
Roughing the system in

We suggest that you start with a single vocal with instrumental accompaniment
because the sound of the human voice is more easily recognizable than many
instruments and is the least complex sound to deal with.

1. If the vocal appears to be larger than life. you should first check the system
volume. Is it a volume that would be appropriate for someone actually singing in your
room? If there is too much volume the artist will appear too big and the opposite is true
for too little volume. It the volume is set correctly and the image is still too big. toe the
speakers in a little more or place them closer together and re-listen. Repeat this
process till you have it right.

2. If you are not getting enough front to back depth (the sound is not sufficiently
behind the speaker) pull the speakers away from the wall a little bit at a time (closer to
the listening position). If you do not have them pulled far enough away, you may not
have enough front to back depth. Find the best compromise for your room, yourtastes
and your space requirements

3. If you are not getting proper locus on the voice. you may place the left and
right speaker closer together or add a small amount of toe in until you have a properly
defined center image. It the speakers are too far apart you will lose the side image and
if they are too close together. or have too much toe in, you will have too small a center
stage. We recommend you begin with six to seven feet apart as measured from
tweeter to tweeter.

When properly set up very little sound should appear to come directly from the speaker.
instead. the sound stage should extend far beyond the left and right edge of the
loudspeakers and they should have tremendous front to back depth. When the
recording is close miked (when the instrument or performer is very close to the
recording microphone) the music may appear to come directly from the loudspeaker.
This is normal. Typically, however, the sound should appear to be detached from the
loudspeakers.

A simple rule of thumb to follow is that focus will be achieved by placing the speakers
closer together or farther apart, and also by varying the amount of toe in and front to
back depth can be adjusted by the distance from the rear of the speaker and the wall.

The Refinement stage

After following the rough setup guide above. your speakers should sound great.
However a little more work over a period 01 time can put the finishing touch on your
system. To help in this goal we share with you here some of our observations in setting
up Genesis loudspeakers.