PSB Synchrony Series Manuals

Owner’s Manual Synchrony Series Guide d’utilisation Manual de Propietario Congratulations on purchasing your new PSB Synchrony loudspeaker. We hope that you enjoy our product for many years to come. This owner's manual will give you many useful tips about connecting, placing and using your loudspeaker. We recommend you read it thoroughly and it should answer all of your product related questions. If not, feel free to contact us through our website: www.psbspeakers.com Synchrony design background A little technical background might give you an appreciation of the technology that went into the design of your Synchrony product. Our intention in designing the PSB Synchrony range of products was to bring to bear all that we have learned in 35 years of crafting fine loudspeakers to create a line of high performance systems of truly elegant design. The Synchrony models use advances in three core technologies, the cabinet, the drivers, and crossover design. THE CABINET Cabinets for a high performance loudspeaker must be heavy, rigid and vibration free. Sound must come from the drivers only, never from the cabinet itself. Cabinets for Synchrony models are unlike any other. They are a blend of two very different materials: aluminum and wood. Front and back surfaces are from very solid double wall aluminum extrusions. The strength and stiffness of aluminum allows a very rigid structure that can be precisely machined to accept drivers and other components. Special contours can be achieved in aluminum that preserve the sonic characteristics of the drivers. The curved side panels are made from multiple layers of wood. Wood is stiff relative to its weight and has inherently high damping properties to absorb sonic energy that might otherwise color the sound. The sides of the Synchrony models are made from seven layers of 3mm MDF individually laminated/formed onto a curved surface which improves the panel's stiffness. Additionally, the sides are clad in finely finished veneers to enhance the beauty of the systems. DRIVERS Drivers (woofers and tweeters) are a key component to the performance of the new Synchrony models. A number of enhancements elevate them over previous components. Distortion Reduced Motor The field generated by a signal driving the voice coil reacts with the field in the magnetic structure's air gap. A long four layer voice coil normally results in high self induction and impedance that varies with excursion. 3 Owner’s Manual These two factors causing distortion in bass drivers are practically eliminated by the combination of an aluminum shorting ring within the magnet structure, the aluminum phase plug on the pole piece, and a shorted copper turn on top of the pole piece. The aluminum phase plug smoothes response and also contributes as a heat sink for the voice coil, reducing power compression. Long voice coils for all woofers (in a narrow gap) ensure high and uniform BL vs. excursion, to maintain dynamic linearity. The result is unbelievable clean bass/midrange reproduction. Laminated Sandwich Cone The cones are constructed from a fine weave fiberglass cone material along with a laminate of compressed, felted fiber laminate. This creates a stiff but still dampened cone that will remain stable even under very large sound pressures. In addition, a central dustcap gives a second connection between the cone and voice coil. This triangulation provides an incredibly rigid assembly for clean response to high level inputs. CROSSOVER DESIGN Great components and construction alone will not guarantee a good sounding system. More than anything, the crossover is what defines the sound of a speaker. The crossover determines the band of operation of each driver and determines how seamlessly the units transition from one range to the next. It sets the octave-to-octave balance that defines the personality of the system. At PSB, years of design experience, highly tuned sets of ears, and the unsurpassed facilities of the National Research Council in Ottawa, lead to superior crossover design. With the Synchrony One and Two Towers a unique driver/crossover arrangement minimizes the unwanted effects of floor bounce induced early reflections. These reflections interfere with the direct sound and contribute peaks and dips to the response. For the entire Synchrony series the crossover slopes are acoustical fourth order Linkwitz-Riley type with attention paid to the direction of the “in phase lobe”. The lobe, an inevitable effect of transitioning from driver to driver, is optimally aimed. Whether seated or standing, the frequency response of the system does not vary. Crossover components are chosen to be the best quality possible. Heavy multi-lamination iron cores are used for large value inductors. High gauge wire air cored inductors are used medium and small value inductors. All capacitors are especially low loss. Film capacitors are used for mid and treble sections. Tight component tolerances and exhaustive testing in manufacturing ensure that each system is a match to the engineering references, giving you the sound quality that PSB designed in. 4 Owner’s Manual

SYNCHRONY Series Owner’s Manual Introduction Congratulations for purchasing a member of the PSB Synchrony Series. Synchrony represents the finest application of PSB’s design philosophy which has been refined over nearly 50 years. In order to assist in the enjoyment your speakers, we have provided you with some instructions for assembly, and some suggestions to help you optimise their performance. Additional information may be found on our website: www.PSBspeakers.com Introduction Félicitations pour votre achat d’un membre de la série PSB Synchrony. Synchrony représente l’application la plus poussée de la philosophie de conception de PSB qui a été raffinée pendant près de 50 ans. Afin de vous aider à bien profiter de vos enceintes, nous vous avons fourni quelques instructions d’assemblage et quelques suggestions pour vous aider à optimiser leurs performances. Vous trouverez des informations supplémentaires sur notre site web : www.PSBspeakers.com Introducción Felicidades por comprar uno de los miembros de la Serie Synchrony de PSB. Synchrony representa la aplicación más fina de la filosofía de diseño de PSB que ha sido refinada durante casi 50 años. Para ayudarlo a disfrutar sus bocinas, le proporcionamos algunas instrucciones para ensamblarlas, y algunas sugerencias para ayudarlo a optimizar su desempeño. Puede encontrar información adicional en nuestro sitio web: www.PSBspeakers.com Port Cover (Figure 1) Two Port Covers are supplied with each tower. The port cover can be used to adjust the bass tuning of the Synchrony T600 where room problems at low frequencies (in the 1OOHz region) occur. It is well known that the room can dominate the performance of the low frequencies below 200Hz and the added flexibility of a port cover can tweak/improve the performance in problem room setups. We invite the listener to try plugging any one or multiple ports to better integrate the system in their room because any adjustment of the bass balance could be a welcome improvement in a given system setup. Please experiment; it will be worth the effort in many cases. It is impossible to predict what type of room or what the system setup will be, therefore we think the flexibility of multiple ports allows the speaker to be integrated better in a wider variety of situations. Sometimes tweaking like this can be used to really help “dial in” the best possible sound in your room. Deux couvercles d’event (Figure 1) Deux couvercles d’event sont fourni avec chaque tour. Les couvercles d’ event peuvent servir a regler I’ accord des graves de le Synchrony T600 lorsque des anomalies se produisent dans le local d’ecoute dans le registre des graves (autour de 100 Hz). II est bien connu que la piece peut determiner les performances en basses frequences en dessous de 200 Hz, et le fait d’ajouter un couvercle d’event peut harmoniser ou ameliorer les performances des installations des locaux a problemes. Nous invitons l’auditeur a essayer d’obstruer l’un quelconque des events afin de mieux integrer le systeme a son local d’ecoute, parce que tout reglage de l’equilibre des graves peut constituer une amelioration bienvenue dans une installation donnee. Veuillez done essayer; cela vaut le coup dans de nombreux cas. II est impossible de predire le type de local et quelles seront les nstallations. Par consequent, nous pensons que le fait de disposer de plusieurs events permet de mieux integrer le hautparleur dans une grande diversite de situations. Parfois, un tel reglage peut contribuer reellement a « tirer » le meilleur son possible de votre local. Tapas del tunel de graves (Figura 1) Se sumistra duas tapas del tunel de graves com de cada torre Las tapas pueden usarse para ajustar la sintonfa de bajos de estos modelos, en caso que se produzcan problemas ambientales en las frecuencias bajas (alrededor de los 100 Hz). Es bien sabido que la sala tiene un papel predominante en la audici6n de las frecuencias por debajo de los 200 Hz, y una tapa del tunel de graves puede ayudar a mejorar el desempeiio en ciertos ambientes. Le invitamos a cubrir una o varias bocas para integrar mejor el sistema en la sala, porque esto podrfa mejorar mucho esa instalaci6n en particular. No tenga miedo a experimentar: en muchos casos, el esfuerzo valdra la pena. Figure 1 / Figura 1 Speaker Terminal Jumper Bars (Figure 2 / 3) The Synchrony T600 also includes two speaker terminal jumper bars. This will provide listeners with tri- and bi-wiring capabilities, as well as tri- and bi-amping. Though the audible differences of these features may be subtle, the benefits include; transients are less likely to cause clipping and/or speaker damage, reduced distortion and the elimination of errors at low frequencies, while also providing better matching between the power amplifier and speaker. Cavaliers des bornes de haut-parleur (Figure 2 / 3) Le Synchrony T600 comprend egalement deux cavaliers de bornes de haut-parleurs. lls fournissent a l’auditeur la capacite de bicablage et de tricablage, ainsi que de biamplification et de triamplification. Bien que les differences perceptibles de ces caracteristiques puissent etre subtiles, les avantages comprennent une reduction du risque de transitoires pouvant causer de l’ecretage et/ou des dommages au haut-parleur, une reduction de la distorsion et !’elimination d’erreurs a basse frequence, tout en fournissant une meilleure correspondance entre l’amplificateur et le haut-parleur . Puentes de conexi6n de terminales para los altavoces (Figura 2 / 3) El Synchrony T600 tambien incluye dos puentes de conexi6n de terminales para los altavoces. Esto dara a los oyentes capacidades de bicableado y tricableado, asf coma de biamplificaci6n y triamplificaci6n. Aunque las diferencias audibles de estas funciones pueden ser sutiles, algunas de las ventajas son: menor probabilidad de que los efectos transitorios causen recorte o dafio en los altavoces, menor distorsi6n y eliminaci6n de errores a frecuencias bajas, asf coma mejor correspondencia entre el amplificador de potencia y el altavoz. Figure 2 / Figura 2 Figure 3 / Figura 3