Room Acoustics & Placement - Paradigm PERSONA SUB Guide De L'utilisateur

ROOM ACOUSTICS & PLACEMENT
Bass is less and less directional as it goes down in frequency. For best sonic integration, locating your subwoofer
between your front speakers or beside one of them and close to the back wall will usually provide the best bass
performance. If this location is not possible your subwoofer may be placed anywhere in the room without affecting the
stereo image of your front speakers or the soundstage of your multichannel speaker system.
Figure 1a: Corner placement provides the most bass, but sometime at the expensive of accuracy.
Figure 1b: A subwoofer placed near a wall usually provides a good balance of quality and accuracy.
Although controls are provided to align your subwoofer's output to the other speakers in your system, see "Fine Tuning"
on Page 18, you have at your disposal the most powerful, accurate and innovative tool in the industy for achieving
optimal bass performance in any room situation. The critically acclaimed Anthem Room Correction (ARC™) is a true
audiophile solution to the provlems of the room. It allows you to correct for the effects of room boundaries on the quality
of bass.
The Advantages of Using Two Subwoofers in your Listening Room
What's the only thing better than a single Persona SUB? Two of them! Although a single Persona SUB provides
breathtaking output, the quality of bass can be further improvded with the use of two subwoofers. Placing one in the
front and of the room and the other in the rear of the room (see Fig. 2) usually provides the best bass performance and
sonic integration. Begin by placing your subwoofers in these standard positions, then apply ARC™ to the first subwoofer,
then to the second subwoofer.
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