Genesis Advanced Technologies 2.2 - Manual (Page 19)

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panels away from the front wall a little bit at a time. If you do not
have them pulled far enough away, you may not have enough
front to back depth. If you get the speakers much beyond 1/3 of
the way into the room, it is unlikely that pulling them further away
is reasonable.
Too much absorption on the wall behind the speakers will also
result in less depth in the soundstage. The G2 requires a
relatively “live” front wall.
Find the best compromise for your room, your tastes and your
space requirements. If the speakers are too far apart you will lose
the side image and the image density in the middle of the
soundstage will be too diffuse. If the speakers are too close
together you will have too small a center stage, and you may find
that the edges of the soundstage collapse inwards.
We recommend you begin with six to seven feet apart as
measured from tweeter to tweeter. If you are not getting proper
focus on the voice, you may angle the midrange panels from 1 to 3
degrees inwards towards your seating position until you have a
properly defined center image.
When properly set up very little sound should appear to come
directly from the speaker, instead, the sound stage should extend
far beyond the left and right edge of the loudspeakers and they
should have tremendous front to back depth. When the recording is
close miked (when the instrument or performer is very close to the
recording microphone) the music may appear to come directly
from the loudspeaker. This is normal. Typically, however, the
sound should appear to be detached from the loudspeakers.
A simple rule of thumb to follow is that focus will be achieved by
placing the speakers closer together or farther apart, and front to
back depth can be adjusted by the distance from the front wall and
treatment (or lack of) of the front wall. Further, as the system
“breaks in”, the depth and width of the soundstage will increase,
and so will the “smoothness” of the sound.
Phase Control
We suggested in the beginning of this manual to set the phase to
zero degrees when the Servo-Bass Interconnects are used. If a
balanced pre-amp level input is used, the phase angle may be