Russound Advantage Series - Manuals

Speaker Care 5 SPEAKER CARE Russound Advantage Series speakers are built with qual-ity materials to last a lifetime. They should work for aslong as you own your home and longer if you avoid thefollowing: • Too little power at high volumes • Too much power • Transients (immediate loud passages, thump...

6 Getting Started & WHO – Installer Skills and Tools There are several related factors that must be considered before the installation of your Russound Advantage speakers: WHO: Who is doing the installation, the homeowner, or a professional installer? WHAT: What is the installation environment a...

7 WHAT – Speaker Usage and Environment WHAT - SPEAKER USAGE AND ENVIRONMENT Before you decide where you want to install yourRussound Advantage speakers, you’ll need to deter-mine their intended use. Will you be sitting in oneplace listening to music or will you be playing back-ground music during do...

WHEN – Pre-Construction or Retrofit Installation 8 WHEN - PRE-CONSTRUCTION OR RETROFITINSTALLATION PRE-CONSTRUCTION INSTALLATION Built-in speaker installation is more convenient duringhome construction than after construction is completed.Speaker wire can be routed to the destination before thewallb...

9 WHERE – Speaker Placement WHERE - SPEAKER PLACEMENT Placement can make all the difference in how yourRussound speaker system sounds. There are at least fourrelated considerations that factor into the speaker layout: • The intended use: critical listening, home theater, or background music • The ro...

10 WHERE – Speaker Placement For home theater, wall speakers for the front three chan-nels create the illusion that the sound is coming fromthe screen, which makes the viewing experience moreinvolving and believable. When you use ceiling speakersfor the front channels, the sound appears to come from...

WHERE – Speaker Placement 11 FIDELITY For best fidelity, there are several factors to keep inmind before you begin actual installation. In general, the best acoustic performance will result ifboth speakers face a similar type of surface, are placedin similar positions on the same wall or ceiling, an...

12 Wire – Wire Requirements WIRE CONSIDERATIONS When purchasing speaker wire, you will need to selectthe proper gauge, determine the length, and choose thebrand. Wire is measured in gauges: the higher the number, thethinner the wire. For example, 18-gauge wire is thinnerthan 14-gauge wire. The lengt...

13 HOW – Painting the Speaker Frames and Grilles HOW - PAINTING THE SPEAKER FRAMES ANDGRILLES Russound in-wall speaker frames and grilles are pre-fin-ished with an off-white paint. You can choose to leavethem as is or paint them with latex wall paint or aerosolspray paint to accent or blend with the...

15 HOW - Cutting Wall/Ceiling Opening for Speakers HOW - CUTTING WALL/CEILING OPENING FORSPEAKER The following steps outline how to locate a section ofwall between two studs, mark the outer boundaries ofthe hole, drill a small hole in the center to verify thelocation and then cut the main hole. Dete...

16 Carefully score the penciled outline of the template with a sharp utility knife to avoid chipping paint or tear-ing wallpaper. Then use a keyhole/drywall saw to cutalong the scored line. Make sure you don’t make it anylarger than the marked outline. • If you’re dealing with lath and plaster or th...

17 HOW – Hooking up the Speakers HOW – HOOKING UP SPEAKERS IDENTIFYING POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE (“+” AND “-”) Speaker wire consists of two conductors, and the wireshould be manufactured so you can discriminatebetween the two. If your wire has transparent insulation,one conductor may be copper-colored a...

19 HOW – Final Assembly of Speakers HOW – FINAL ASSEMBLY OF SPEAKERS Up to this point in the installation process you havelocated and cut the hole, mounted the speaker frame,run the wires, and connected them to the speaker baffleand to the amplifier/receiver. Now you will mount thespeaker into the f...

20 2. If the woofer cone moves outwards when momentari-ly energized, the speaker is wired correctly. If the woofercone moves inward, the polarity is reversed, and thewire’s positive and negative conductors should beswitched on the back of the speaker. TO TEST CHANNEL CONNECTIONS: 1. Turn on your ste...

22 Series: Hi-Fi Model: SP-H6IM Description: Rectangular In-wall Cut-Out: 10.75” H x 6.75” W (27.3 cm x 17.1 cm) Woofer: 6.5” (16.5 cm) woven glass fiber long throw Tweeter: Pivoting 20mm (0.8”) aluminum dome, fluid cooled Recommended Power: 5 - 120 watts Nominal Impedance: 6 Ohms Efficiency: 90 dB ...