Avalon Acoustics Sentinel - Manual (Page 3)

Table of Contents
1 Introduction...................................................................................................................5
Overview ..................................................................................................5
1.1 Low Noise Floor ..............................................................................................6
1.2 Coherent Energy Transfer...............................................................................7
1.3 The Active Reference System ........................................................................8
2 Unpacking Instructions .................................................................................................9
Introduction ..............................................................................................9
Contents...................................................................................................9
2.1 Room Preparation and Verification...............................................................10
2.2 Crate and Box Placement for Unpacking......................................................11
2.3 Opening the Crates .......................................................................................12
2.3 Opening the Sub Amplifier Crates .................................................................14
3 System Set-up ...............................................................................................................15
Preparation...............................................................................................15
Removing Apex‘ Couplers from Set-up Blocks .......................................15
Left / Right Channel Matching.................................................................16
3.1 Lower Speaker Cabinet Set-up......................................................................17
3.2 Upper Speaker Cabinet Set-up......................................................................18
3.3 Crossover Cabinet Set-up..............................................................................21
3.4 The Felt Anti-Diffraction Mask.........................................................................22
Orientation of the upper Felt Mask...........................................................22
3.5 Sub Amplifier Set-up.......................................................................................23
4 Wiring Instructions .........................................................................................................24
Introduction ..............................................................................................24
4.1 Wiring and Field Interactions..........................................................................25
Inductive field effects...............................................................................25
4.2 Connecting Upper Speaker Cabinet to Crossover........................................26
4.3 Connecting Speaker Cable to the Crossover................................................27
4.4 Connect Speaker Cable to your Amplifier ....................................................28
4.4 Connecting Subwoofer to the Sub Amplifier .................................................29
4.5 Connecting Preamplifier to the Amplifiers .....................................................30
1. Interconnect Y-cable at the preamplifier............................................30
2. Two outputs at the preamplifier...........................................................30
3. Loop-Out from the Subwoofer Amplifier..............................................30
5 Break-in Period .............................................................................................................31
6 Maximizing Performance.............................................................................................32
Break-in.....................................................................................................34
Separate Left / Right Amplifiers ................................................................34
Felt Anti-diffraction Masks.........................................................................34
Room Treatment and System / Listener Position.......................................35
Toe-In ........................................................................................................35
Apex‘ Couplers.......................................................................................35
First Reflection Points.................................................................................36
Corner Treatment .....................................................................................36
7 Care of Your Avalon Loudspeakers..............................................................................37
Cabinet ....................................................................................................37
Crossover Cabinet....................................................................................37
Felt Anti-diffraction Masks.........................................................................37
Drivers .......................................................................................................37
8 Warranty .......................................................................................................................38
In the Event of a Problem .........................................................................38
Warranty Statement .................................................................................39