Bose Acoustimass 500 Owner's guide - Page 8

0: CIV Fitting the sound to your room These guidelines will help you adapt your AM-500'm Acoustimass° speaker system to your listening room. Bass and treble Upholstered furniture, wall-to-wall carpets, or heavy drapes can muffle the treble (high notes), making your speaker system sound too deep. Bare floors and walls and unupholstered furniture can make your speaker system sound too shrill. After listening to your speakers, you may wish to adjust the balance of bass and treble. Use the bass and treble controls on your music source. Or move the bass module closer to a wall or corner to increase bass, or closer to the center of the room to decrease it. Cube speakers The cube speakers swivel to provide a lifelike balance of reflected and direct sound. Experiment with cube positions for the results you prefer (Figure 7). For video applications, angling the top half of the speaker slightly inward will improve onscreen localization. You can also use the cube speakers with both cubes facing forward. This eliminates the benefits of combining reflected and direct sound, but may be appropriate for small listening areas (such as on desks or in cubicles). CNN/ ,x/ • Figure 7 How to adjust the combination of reflected and direct sound Automatic system protection Electrical stress or overload caused by playing music too loudly can damage your speakers. The Bose' built-in automatic protection circuit prevents this damage. You may notice a slight decrease in volume when the protection circuit is on. This is a normal response to exceeding safe power levels. Bose does not recommend setting the volume at or above this level for long periods. • 8