User manual OUTLAW 1050

[. . . ] Outlaw Model 1050 Receiver Owner's Manual Outlaw Audio Inc. , 18 Denbow Road Durham, NH 03824 Tel. (800) 392-1393, Fax (603) 868-6634 www. outlawaudio. com Version 1. 0 2 The Outlaw 1050 Instruction Manual Important Safety Information 3 The Outlaw 1050 Instruction Manual As the owner of an Outlaw Audio Model 1050 Receiver, you are in possession of a unique product. We hope that your new Outlaw 1050 will bring many years of enjoyable listening to your music or home theater system. In order to receive the maximum enjoyment from your new receiver, please take a few minutes to read this manual. [. . . ] The desired effect is to reproduce high-level bass sounds without distortion while maintaining a smooth transition between the main speakers and the subwoofer. At the same time, you do not want the subwoofer to become a localizable sound source, which can become a problem if the crossover is set too high. It is therefore desirable to keep the crossover frequency at 100 Hz or below if practical; 80 Hz is often just about ideal, provided, again, that all the speakers in the system can operate comfortably down to that level. Dolby Laboratories recently developed an extension to the Dolby Digital 5. 1 surround standard, which is known as Dolby Digital Surround EX® in theaters and Surround EX® in the home. It encodes a third, center surround channel into the discrete signals for the left and right surrounds. Surround EX cinema soundtracks are therefore fully compatible with standard 5. 1-channel playback systems, but with the appropriate decoding circuits and a third 23 The Outlaw 1050 Instruction Manual surround speaker directly behind you, you can extract and reproduce the center surround channel. This third surround channel allows soundtrack mixers to create a more seamless surround environment and more exciting special effects. The 1050 uses Outlaw's proprietary Surround 6. 1 mode to decode the Surround EX center surround channel, and an amplifier channel to drive the sixth speaker. There are a number of good ways to set up the speakers for this. The main thing to remember: Just as the center speaker's tonal character should match that of the front left and right speakers, and the character of the left and right surrounds should be a close match to that of the fronts, the center surround speakers should match well to the left and right surrounds. Often, the best way to do this will be to use the same model speaker for all three surrounds. The easiest set up for Surround 6. 1 is a single speaker directly behind the listening area. Placement should otherwise be similar to that for the other two surround speakers. Some people prefer the sound created by a pair of speakers for the center surround channel, especially when the left and right surround speakers are directly to the sides of the listening area. For this method, wire a pair of identical speakers, in parallel, to the center surround speaker output on the 1050 and space them apart on the back wall of the room so that there is about the same distance from each surround speaker to the next. There are two easy ways to wire the speakers in parallel. One is to run wires for each speaker directly back to the output terminals on the receiver, so that both are connected directly to the center surround output. The other is to make a direct run from the amplifier to one of the speakers. Then connect wires from the positive (red) terminal on that speaker to the matching terminal on the other and from the negative (black) terminal to its mate on the second speaker. Because running two speakers in parallel will halve the impedance seen by the amplifier channel driving them, you will need to set the Impedance Selector switch on the back panel to 4 ohms. (The receiver must be turned off when you do this. ) SETTING CHANNEL DELAYS Because rooms differ in size and in layout, speaker arrangements differ as well. The 1050 allows you to set delays for the center and surround channels, to ensure that sounds from the various speakers arrive at your ears with the correct relative timing. [. . . ] (3 channels driven) Dimensions (Max) Width Height Depth Weight 17. 2 inches (437 mm) 6. 1 inches (156 mm) 14. 3 inches (464 mm) 36. 3 lbs. (16. 5 kg) Note: All specifications subject to change without notice "Outlaw Audio" and the Outlaw Audio logo are registered trademarks. "Dolby", "Pro Logic", "AC-3", "Dolby Digital", "Surround EX" and the Double-D symbol are trademarks of Dolby Laboratories. "DTS" and "DTS-ES" are trademarks of Digital Theater Systems, Inc. 43 The Outlaw 1050 Instruction Manual Outlaw Model 1050 Limited Warranty This warranty protects the owner of the Outlaw 1050 Receiver (the PRODUCT) for TWO (2) years from the date of purchase. [. . . ]