Dynaudio Sub 6 Owner's Manual

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Installation
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Positioning
Although the position of subwoofers
in the listening room is generally less
critical than full-range speakers, we
still recommend that you select your
Sub6 position carefully. With careful
positioning the subwoofer will integrate
more seamlessly with the other speakers
in the system, and interact optimally with
the room acoustics.
The following notes should be taken
as rough guidelines; bass response
in general is very dependent on the
acoustics of the listening environment.
Finding the best position often involves
a lot of trial-and-error experimentation.
Always trust your ears, even if the
position of the subwoofer seemingly
goes against the guidelines.
Contradictory as it may seem, good
integration of subwoofers has been
achieved when one isn’t aware that a
subwoofer is present at all in the system,
yet performance involves fast, deep and
solid bass without sounding stressed,
even at loud levels.
Choose adequate music material
When experimenting to nd the
optimal location, use a couple of music
tracks with repetitive bass across a
large spectrum. The tracks should be
sufciently different from each other
and each should cover a wide bass-
range. Musical instruments, such as a
double-bass, bass guitar, church organ,
etc. cover a wide spectrum in the bass
region and are therefore very suitable.
Using non-music (such as action movies)
material to position and adjust the
subwoofer with, may lead to spectacular
results with such material but almost
always it will result in overblown and
excessive bass when playing music with
the same setting.
Installation
Impact of Room-modes
Every listening environment will have
specic “room-modes”, whereby in
some specic locations in the room and
at particular frequencies, the bass may
be too much or too lean. This effect will
be stronger in square and “shoe-box”
shaped rooms. With a single subwoofer,
the better position for the subwoofer
relative to the listening position will be
the one where bass is perceived to be
neither too much nor too lean at any
given frequency.
Using multiple subwoofers
By using carefully positioned multiple
subwoofers it is possible to even out the
different room-modes and thus create
a more coherent overall bass response
in the room. It is worth experimenting
with different locations around the
room for the additional subwoofers,
even using the rear of the room. As
adding subwoofers will not increase the
effect of room-modes, even adding a
subwoofer without much care or thought
to positioning is likely to help even out
room-modes.
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Avoid placing the subwoofer at
1/4, 1/2 or 3/4 of either the length
or width of the room as at these
locations the room-modes are likely
to be strongest (the dashed lines in
the gure)
1/4
1/4
1/2
3/4
1/2 3/4
Listening Room

Dynaudio Sub 6 Specifications

General

Subwoofer type	Active subwoofer
Number of subwoofers	2
Subwoofer peak power	500 W
Subwoofer driver diameter	240 mm
Subwoofer frequency range	16 - 230 Hz
On/off switch	Yes
Product color	Black
Speaker enclosure	Closed
AC input voltage	100 - 240 V
Power source type	AC
AC input frequency	50 - 60 Hz
Power consumption (standby)	0.5 W

Weight and Dimensions

Subwoofer depth	268 mm
Subwoofer width	447 mm
Subwoofer height	300 mm
Subwoofer weight	21500 g