PLACEMENT
The FUSSION 1800SA and 1800SY Position the loudspeakers so the high-
subwoofers are designed to sit on the floorfrequency drivers are 2 to 4 feet above ear
or sturdy stands.level for the audience (make allowances
You can stack cabinets vertically. If youfor a standing/dancing in the aisles
do, place the FUSSION 1800SA and 1800Saudience). High frequencies are highly
on the bottom of the stack, side by side, anddirectional and tend to be absorbed much
place the full-range active Fussion Serieseasier than lower frequencies. By provid-
cabinets on top. If you stack two full-rangeing direct line-of-sight from the
cabinets, turn the upper cabinet upside downloudspeakers to the audience, you
so the high-frequency driver is closest to theincrease the overall brightness and
high-frequency driver in the lower cabinet.intelligibility of the sound system.
Y Highly reverberant rooms, like many
As with any poweredgymnasiums and auditoriums, are a
components, protectnightmare for sound system intelligibility.
them from moisture. IfMultiple reflections off the hard walls,
you are setting them upceiling, and floor play havoc with the
outdoors, make sure theysound. Depending on the situation, you
are under cover if youmay be able to take some steps to mini-
expect rain.mize the reflections, such as putting
carpeting on the floors, closing draperies
Room Acoustics
to cover large glass windows, or hanging
The Fussion Series loudspeakers are de-tapestries or other materials on the walls
signed to sound as neutral as possible; thatto absorb some of the sound.
is, to reproduce the input signal as accu-However, in most cases, these remedies
rately as possible.are not possible or practical. So what do
Room acoustics play a crucial role in theyou do? Making the sound system louder
overall performance of a sound system.
generally doesnOt work because the
However, the wide high-frequency disper-reflections become louder, too. The best
sion of the Fussion Series helps to minimizeapproach is to provide as much direct
the problems that typically arise.
sound coverage to the audience as pos-
sible. The farther away you are from the
Here are some other placement tips:speaker, the more prominent will be the
Y Avoid placing loudspeakers in thereflected sound.
corners of a room. This increases the
Use more speakers strategically placed so
low-frequency output and can cause thethey are closer to the back of the audience.
sound to be muddy and indistinct.If the distance between the front and back
Y Avoid placing loudspeakers against a wall.speakers is more than about 100 feet, you
This, too, increases the low frequencyshould use a delay processor to time-align
output, though not as much as cornerthe sound. (Since sound travels about 1
placement. However, if you do need tofoot per millisecond, it takes about 1/10 of
reinforce the low frequencies, this is aa second to travel 100 feet.)
good way to do it.
Y Avoid placing the active loudspeakers
directly on a hollow stage floor. A hollow
stage can resonate at certain frequencies,
causing peaks and dips in the frequency
response of the room.
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