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Properly placed, your Gale home cinema loudspeakers will provide an

excellent, wholly satisfying sound. However, with each room varying

in size, dimension and layout, it will be necessary to experiment with

the placement of your loudspeakers in order to gain optimum

performance. A typical home cinema set-up is shown below.

1 1

2 2

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3 3

4 4

Front Left and Right Loudspeakers

These can be positioned using the same guidelines as detailed on the

previous page. They should be placed equidistant to the left and right

of your screen far enough apart to ensure good stereo imaging. If

they are too far apart or too close to the corners of the room they will

sound distracting and distant. It may be desirable to experiment with

the 'toe-in' of the units (angling them towards the listening position) to

optimize the front speaker soundstage and imaging.

Surround Loudspeakers

If you are using normal hi-fi loudspeakers as your surrounds they

should be situated roughly at listening height and facing into the

listening position.

It is suggested that they are wall mounted or

alternatively placed on suitable speaker stands.

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Positioning your Home Cinema Loudspeakers

1. Front Left & Right

2. Centre Channel

3. Surround

3 3

4. Subwoofer

Bipolar-type surround speakers can be set up in much the same way

as standard 'monopole' types, so try positioning around listening

height and angle toward the listener

Dipoles diffuse the sound in a slightly different way, and therefore

have different positioning requirements: ideally they should be

mounted to the side of the listener, and up to 15 degrees above

listening height

Centre Channel Loudspeakers

Ideally your centre channel loudspeaker needs to be positioned

directly above or below your screen, facing the listening position.

Subwoofer

The location of any dedicated subwoofer will greatly effect the quantity

and also the quality of the low frequencies.

subwoofer manual for detailed positioning information.

Final System Setup

Once all wiring connections are complete and you have positioned

your home cinema loudspeakers, turn on your amplification system

and run the relevant Level Calibration Sequence to establish the

correct individual volume level for each speaker channel.

Finally, play some test material and make final adjustments to the

Active Sub Frequency Cut-Off point that allows the best overall

integration within the system, sounding neither too boomy, or overly

thin. After this step, It may be necessary to run the Level calibration

again to make final level checks.

EXPERIMENT !!

REMEMBER - IF IT SOUNDS RIGHT TO YOU, IT IS RIGHT !!

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