Verity Audio Fidelio - Manual (Page 5)

Fidelio Encore Owner’s Manual
R.4.0 January 2005
VERITY AUDIO PAGE 5
The unique custom-made midrange driver employed in the
Fidelio, offers coloration free reproduction that extends from
low mid frequencies up to the low treble range. Its acceleration
factor is twice the ones currently found on standard drivers of
that size. It has been designed to offer an extremely low level
of distortion. The midrange / tweeter 5.5 kHz crossover point
makes the whole system incredibly coherent. These speed,
distortion and coherence characteristics explain the acclaimed
blend of sweetness and details that is normally so hard to
achieve. One could think that speed means brightness but it is
wrong. Simply think about an electrostatic loudspeaker.
The tweeter has been specifically designed to give extended,
natural and resonance free reproduction of the harmonic
content of all musical instruments. These units have been
integrated with a very carefully designed crossover that allows
each driver to deliver its full potential. Moreover, all
components used are carefully computer-matched and indexed
to enable optimum sound staging performance.
Packing and Unpacking
Before they left the factory, your Fidelio loudspeakers passed an
exhaustive quality control procedure to guaranty their genuine
state. Please carefully observe the unpacking or packing
instructions included with the owner’s manual for maximum
product safety. Once your Fidelio cabinets will be unpacked,
inspect them carefully for any physical damage. If any transit
damage can be noticed, please notify your dealer immediately
and request the name of the carrier so a written claim can be
initiated.
Your Fidelio comes packed in a double cardboard box or in an
ATA metal case (optional) complete with all the necessary
protection accessories. For transportation purposes, we strongly
recommend you to keep and store all your packaging hardware
.
Unless the carrier is notified promptly and all the shipping cases
are available for inspection, the right to claim can be forfeited.
Installation
This section depicts how to assemble and connect the Fidelio.
To identify a proper location for the installation of your Fidelio,
please refer to the Room Placement section of this manual or
follow the recommendations of your dealer.
Once the speakers are properly installed, connect them to the
amplifier using quality speaker cables. Make sure that the
polarities are respected at both ends and that your cables are
installed in the proper direction. The positive input is identified
by a red dot located on the connector plate.
The Verity Audio custom-made connectors are made with pure
soft copper.
For vacuum tube equipments that have multiple output
impedance taps, the eight-ohm taps should provide the best
interface with the Fidelio.
Room Placement
Indoors, acoustic intelligibility is of great concern for a variety
of reasons. It requires low background noise levels and “good”
acoustical design. In any room, the reverberant sound pressure
level increases as the acoustic power increases and decreases
as sound absorption in the room increases and / or sound
power flows from the room. The sound field in a room is
composed of two parts, the direct field and the reverberant
field.
The complex theories of physical acoustics, the uncertainties
in predicting the property variations of both natural and
manufactured room materials, and the none negligible effects
of painting, sealing, bracing, furring, and draping all keep the
specification and prediction of room acoustics from being an
exact science. Adding together, loudspeaker characteristics, the
auditory personal taste, and ergonomics, makes, by practical
means, the equation impossible to solve. The frequent need to
evaluate the final result by listening rather than by purely
quantitative methods gives acoustical tuning a somewhat
subjective aspect.
Nevertheless, knowing what the Fidelio is capable to do will
be your major asset in establishing the best setup for your
loudspeaker. Here are a few simple rules that will guide you.
A good setup will give you fast transients from bottom-end to
top-end, proper image height and a wide and deep soundstage.
Having that in mind, the following guidelines are based on our
own experience with the Fidelio. We recommend you to start
with these and later on (after getting familiar with your Fidelio)
bring your own modifications that will optimize your setup.
First, the distance from the rear wall to the speaker front baffle
of your speaker (midrange center) should be equaled to the
height of your room times 0.62. Then follow the following
instructions according to your own room characteristics:
1. Your sitting position will be within ten feet (3 meters)
from your loudspeakers
Your setup will be according to the equilateral principle.
To form an equilateral triangle, the angle between you
and your two speakers shall be 60 degrees. If you cannot
evaluate it, simply measure the distance from the center
of your speaker front baffle to your listening position.
Then, adjust the distance between your two loudspeakers
to the same value.
Over tightening the connectors could
cause permanent damage