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Owners Manual - Page 1
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A17131
harman/kardon
Audio/Video Surround Processor with Preamplifier
SYSTEMS PLANNING MANUAL
Owners Manual - Page 2
... for the front speaker system.
The AVP1, however, has been especially designed to begin building a complete Home THX Audio System. PLEASE NOTE: The THX specification includes an electronic crossover for use existing equipment to work equally well with the use of additional THX speaker subwoofers the Harman Kardon group of various music and video...
Owners Manual - Page 3
... applications. Don't, for example, flush-mount a book shelf speaker designed for those installations involving screens smaller than five or six feet measured diagonally. VIDEO VIEWING REQUIREMENTS
•... sound levels. The lights and visual displays on -screen location. SPEAKER PLACEMENT
The AVP1 may be centered in smaller rooms but cannot impart the theatrical experience of having your...
Owners Manual - Page 4
... below the screen they must be either above or below the screen is acceptable since aiming
Set-up and Tuning
Speaker Placement:
Front Speakers
SCREEN
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LESS THAN 2 FEET
them upward... will assure even lateral coverage of the tweeters in , however some leeway during final installation for minor movements to 24" from corners and side walls. Conventional speakers should usually ...
Owners Manual - Page 5
...the tonality of the system while degrading the localization of specific sounds. In addition, the profound bass capabilities of ...it still reduces the perceived low-level resolution of impact the AVP1 and a Home THX Audio System can also degrade dialogue intelligibility...THX Audio System installation.
Sit at the expense of others, based on the side walls. ACOUSTICAL PROBLEMS IN LISTENING ROOMS...
Owners Manual - Page 6
... a large sample of the cloth in front of a speaker playing the pink noise found in Chapter 6 of these materials can be aesthetically acceptable in many installations, particularly when the home theater room serves multiple purposes. Commercially built diffusers are already fairly "dead" acoustically. Place the diffuser where you would otherwise place...
Owners Manual - Page 7
... Waves for more information about treating environments with low frequency response problems.
EXCESSIVE USE OF ABSORPTIVE MATERIALS
People are relatively absorptive, with absorptive... you are common in the rear of absorption and diffusion. Specifically, placing absorptive material behind the front speakers (heavy drapes, ...Slap" echoes are all set. II II II III II III • Ill II III ...
Owners Manual - Page 8
... front by using non-parallel surfaces in the soundtrack is a relative measure. They are frequently important in films. Many scenes use subtle ambient noises to set the mood prior to allow hearing all the various sources of identifying these rattles will occur at a comparable rate will do wonders for the surround...
Owners Manual - Page 9
... can be avoided where possible. These resonances lead to uneven frequency response, the greatest problems being in the 60-150 Hz range for a typical domestic living room (at which... triple layers of sheet rock (gypsum board)
■ Double wall construction, meaning two complete sets of studs (preferably stuffed with fiberglass insulation)
■ Double wall construction with staggered studs (...
Owners Manual - Page 10
... significant adjustment of a trial-and-error basis. The column ought to be... a room exhibits severe standing wave problems, the best solution is possible to determine its best use the professional services of a one -third octave resolution...them .
9 the final adjustment will tend to 100 Hz - This can , then use it takes specific skills to damp standing waves with excellent results -...
Owners Manual - Page 11
... music material for both music and movies.
Foreign patents pending. `LUCASFILM THX AUDIO and HOME THX CINEMA' are trademarks of surround for use with your AVP1 processor. A short list of film titles is licensed under one or more of the following patent: US number 5,043,970. There are also many other...
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