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Outlaw Audio

Owner’s Manual

Subwoofers

The fact is, proper subwoofer placement is more difﬁcult than placing any

other speaker. Some say that you should place the sub away from a wall, other

experts advise putting the sub near a wall, still others (probably not experts)

just tell you to put the sub in a corner. Well, they’re all right. And they’re all

wrong! It all depends on the size, shape and furnishings and ﬂoor coverings

in the room your sub will be sitting in.

The culprits here are called “standing waves” that are generated every time you

introduce a sound in a conﬁned area. They create pressure zones in all rooms

that are most noticeable in the bass frequency range. And they usually result

in too much “boom” in some parts of the room and not enough real bass in

others. In addition, these seemingly random effects are very difﬁcult to predict

unless you’re a trained acoustician with a lot of experience.

But here’s some practical advice from Outlaws who’ve tamed many a room to

be downright docile:

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Never put your prime viewing/listening position tight against a wall

Walls create “high pressure zones” that will have your ears begging for bass

relief in short order. Likewise, a viewing/listening position in the center

of the room will most likely result in too little bass. So make sure your

comfy couch is somewhat free-standing in the room. (And that will give

you plenty of leeway to place your surround and back surround speakers

more advantageously, too.)

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Put the subwoofer where your ears are!

Forget about the advice to move the subwoofer all around the room until

you happen to ﬁnd that one magic spot where the bass sounds “right,

tight, with lots of bite.” Instead, ﬁnd this ideal position the Outlaw way.

Place the subwoofer on your favorite chair or couch (watch those spikes!)

then get down on your hands and knees and move around the room until

you hear the best bass. That’s where you’re going to put the subwoofer!

Simple, isn’t it?

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Consider using more than one sub

Even when you’re feeding the same signal to each one, multiple subs placed

in different parts of the room will go a long way to taming those standing

waves and will help to create very even and natural-sounding bass that just

seems to go all the way down to the, pardon the pun, sub-basement!

Speaker Size Conﬁguration

Since you’ve just conﬁgured all the inputs you’ll be using, it’s time to move on

to the next item on the Main Menu: Speaker Size. Here, you tell the Model 970

how many speakers your system has and what their bass reproduction capa-

bilities are. When you see the words “Large” and “Small,” just think “lots of

bass” and “not much” respectively. (The industry’s use of the confusing term

“size” comes from the early days of HiFi when you just couldn’t get decent bass

response from small speakers.)

NOTE: To avoid errors, the Model 970 does not allow some speaker

combinations. For example, you can set the subwoofer to "none" only

if you have large front speakers. If you have small front speakers, the

subwoofer setting will automatically be "yes." If you have no side

surround speakers, the back surround channels are automatically

deactivated.

To enter settings for speaker size:

1. Press the MENU button on the front panel or the remote to display

the Main Menu.

The Main Menu appears on-screen:

MAIN MENU

> INPUT CONFIG

SPEAKER SIZE

SPEAKER X-OVER

SURROUND CONFIG

CHANNEL CALIBRATION

DELAY ADJUST

SYSTEM CONFIG

EXIT

2. Move the cursor to SPEAKER SIZE by using the and buttons

on the front panel or remote.

3. With the cursor pointing to SPEAKER SIZE, press SET on the front

panel or the remote.

The Speaker Size sub-menu appears:

SPEAKER SIZE

> FRONT L/R :SMALL

CENTER :SMALL

SURR L/R :SMALL

SURR BACK SIZE :NONE

SURR BACK OUT :NONE

SUBwOOFER :YES

RETURN TO MAIN MENU

4. Use the and buttons on the front panel or remote to move to

each line on this menu.

5. Press the

and buttons on the front panel or remote to change

the setting so that it shows the correct speaker size for each

position.

Select

LARGE

if the speakers at the selected position are full range speak-

ers, capable of reproducing the full spectrum of sound including low

bass frequencies. These speakers are typically physically large, but they

don’t have to be as long as they can handle the bass.

Select

SMALL

if the speakers are the popular “satellite” type with limited

bass capability that typically bottoms out between 80 HZ and 150 Hz.

Select

NONE

if there are no speakers at the position you are entering

the settings for. Remember that you can’t enter “NONE” for the front

left/right speakers, and you won’t be able to access the “7.1” modes unless

you chose a speaker type for the SURR BACK Speakers.

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