Audio Physic Virgo 25 plus User manual

Owner´s Manual
VIRGO 25plus
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Contents
Included in the Delivery page 3
Welcome page 12
General Tips page 13
Unpacking and Assembly page 14-15
Connecng the Loudspeakers / Bi-Wiring Operaon page 16
Seng Up the Loudspeakers page 17-18
Technical Specicaons page 19
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Included in the Delivery
Your new loudspeakers are delivered in two separate boxes. One box contains one loudspeaker
and the accessory pack “1“, as well as your “Welcome to the Audio Physic Family“ package
containing this Owner‘s Manual and the Final Inspecon Cercate. In the second box you will
nd the other loudspeaker and a further accessory pack (number “2“).
Box “A“ • “Welcome to the Family“ with spirit level to opmise setup
•Accessory Pack (“1“): 1x front grille
2x metal stands
4x decorave caps for the loudspeaker feet
1x mounng set with 4x spikes
4x nuts
4x ange bolts
4x plasc washer
1x Allen key
Box “B“ •Accessory Pack (“2“): 1x front grille
2x metal stands
4x decorave caps for the loudspeaker feet
1x mounng set with 4x spikes
4x nuts
4x ange bolts
4x plasc washer
1x Allen key
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Welcome
Dear music lover,
We would like to thank you for pung your trust in our products and welcome you to the family
of audiophile friends of AUDIO PHYSIC.
You have chosen a top-class product that has been developed in Germany. We would like to
congratulate you on this choice and wish you a lot of fun and enjoyment with your product.
In order to earn your trust, we only use the latest technical experse and top-quality components
when manufacturing our loudspeakers and we produce them in accordance with strict quality
criteria. These criteria enable us to provide original owners with a 10 year warranty for our
loudspeakers (2 years for the subwoofer electronics and 10 years for the drivers), starng on the
date of purchase of the product by the original owner, which is far longer than the legally
prescribed warranty periods. In order to secure this addional service, please ll out the warranty
card enclosed with your loudspeakers and send this and a copy of your proof of purchase to your
AUDIO PHYSIC distributor.
Only aer several electronic and acousc test runs, which our quality assurance sta conrm by
signing the enclosed cercate, are our loudspeakers allowed to leave the factory in secure
packaging. These measures help to ensure that you can enjoy the full experience of the high-quality
materials, producon and sound of AUDIO PHYSIC loudspeakers in the comfort of your own home.
As a rule, your competent AUDIO PHYSIC dealer will deliver and install your loudspeakers. If you
would rather install your product yourself, the following pages provide you with detailed ps and
steps to follow in order to safely set up your loudspeakers. Have fun with your VIRGO 25plus!
No loss of ne detail: If you want a close-up
rst-hand experience of exactly what your
new AUDIO PHYSIC loudspeakers can do,
we recommend that you try out our
Anniversary Sampler CD. These 16 pieces
of classical music with awless quality are
bound to put a smile on your face.
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General Tips
Depending on the size of your loudspeakers, it is a good idea for two people to unpack them. The
ideal way to do so is to put the boxes on the oor, making sure that the product labels are facing
up. Open the packaging carefully and remove the accessory packs from the box. Then work together
to aach the foot construcon as described in the chapter “Unpacking and Assembly“.
The loudspeakers should reach a temperature that is approximately equivalent to room
temperature before you connect them to the HiFi system and/or operate them. This instrucon
predominately refers to the winter months in case the loudspeakers were previously stored in
a cold room.
Maintenance
Our loudspeakers are coated in high-quality veneers or high-gloss lacquers. You should avoid using
chemical cleaning agents because these can aack the loudspeaker surfaces and make them go
ma. As a rule, a ne, so and damp cloth is all that you need to clean the surfaces. If a cleaning
agent is required, use this to dampen the cloth and do not directly apply it to the surface. It is best
if you test the suitability of the cleaning agent on a less visible part of the cabinet.
The drivers do not normally need to be cleaned. Dust parcles fall o quickly when the loudspeakers
are operated. You can, however, carefully clean the drivers with a so brush. When doing so, please
only lightly brush over the surface and do not put any pressure on it. Please never use any cleaning
agents on the drivers. Do not expose the loudspeakers to direct sunlight. Anodised
surfaces are sensive to acids and alkalis and to ultraviolet light and may fade.
The drivers in this range of AUDIO PHYSIC loudspeakers use a unique mounng technique. Rather
than directly mounng the drivers onto the cabinet of the loudspeaker, the drill holes contain
special neoprene plugs. These neoprene plugs ghten in the mounng hole when the screws are
ed, creang a permanently elasc connecon between the driver and the cabinet that reduces
resonance. You do not need to ghten these screws. Re-ghtening the screws may damage the
plugs and have a negave eect on the sound.
Burning in the Loudspeakers
The loudspeakers rst reach their full sound potenal aer a specic burn-in period. We burn in the
drivers at our factory prior to assembly, meaning that they normally only need a burn-in period of
a few hours at a normal room volume and with music that has a range of frequencies that is as wide
as possible, for example orchestral pieces. Recordings containing ’white or pink noise’ such as those
available on many so-called Test CDs are also ideal. For safety reasons, these pieces should never
be played at high volumes.
Stray Magnec Fields
The magnec eld created by the individual driver magnets may to some extent have an eect
outside of the loudspeaker. This stray magnec eld may interfere with other devices, parcularly
televisions and monitors with cathode ray tubes (not LCD or plasma televisions), for example by
causing changes in colour in the picture. We recommend that you place the loudspeakers
approximately half a metre away from such devices (and also from magnet tapes, video cassees,
credit cards with magnec stripes, etc.).
Where possible, please retain the loudspeaker packaging. You can then securely transport your
loudspeakers if you move house.
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Unpacking and Assembly
1. Place the boxes on the oor, making sure that the product labels are facing up. Carefully
open the packaging on the long side where it has been taped up, as shown in the illustraons
below (illustraon similar), preferably using a pocket knife or kitchen knife.
2. Remove the accessory packs from the boxes.
3. Carefully remove the loudspeakers, together with their protecve foam pads, from the
upright box. It is ideal if two people carry out this step. Make sure that you do not touch the
drivers when removing and handling the loudspeakers as this may cause irreparable damage
to the drivers.
4. Now remove the foam cover from the top and carefully pull down the foil, so that you can
easily aach the foot construcon.
5. Remove the metal stands from the accessory pack and screw the spikes into the designated
inserts.
6. Tighten the lock nuts onto the spikes from above.
7. Now lay the metal stands with the aached spikes on the loudspeaker and adjust the stands
so that their screw inserts are aligned with the inserts in the loudspeaker base.
Correct: In order to correctly
unpack the loudspeaker, the top of
the loudspeaker should be facing
down. This means that you will
easily be able to hold on to the
bottom of the loudspeakers when
carefully pulling them out of
the box and also enables you to
attach the foot construction
without difculty.
False: If the top of the
loudspeaker is facing up,
you will have to turn the
loudspeaker upside down
once you have removed it
from the box in order to
attach the foot
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8. Place the plasc washers included in the delivery onto the bore holes of the stands from
above and insert the provided ange bolts into the holes. Tighten the ange bolts rmly.
The bolts need about seven turns for opmum grip.
9. Now turn over the loudspeakers so that the metal feet are in stable contact with the oor.
Two people should also carry out this step where possible. Make sure that you do not hurt
yourself on the ps of the spikes.
10. Place the loudspeakers in their intended posions and nely adjust the spikes so
that the loudspeakers do not wobble. If you do not place the loudspeakers in a
secure and stable posion and they therefore wobble, this will have a major eect
on the sound. When the boxes are standing level and upright, you have set them up
perfectly. The enclosed spirit level will help you to nely adjust the loudspeakers
(they are level when the bubble remains in the inner circle). Use the lock nuts to
again ghten the spikes. Roughly hand-ghtening the nuts is sucient.
11. Aach the foot end caps to the feet. The small foam ring secures the decorave cap and
ensures that the cap does not resonate when the loudspeaker is operated. Simply li up the
foot end caps to remove them.
You can now start to opmally align your new VIRGO 25plus to the listening posion. You can nd
ps regarding this process in the following chapter on “Setup” and can access parcularly detailed
informaon on the AUDIO PHYSIC website.
If you want to increase the sound quality even more in terms of precision and bass
response, try out our high-quality VC feet (for example VCF II Double M8 in the image
on the right) on your loudspeakers. The “Vibraon Control“ feet are not only an
alternave to spikes for high-quality ooring, but also reduce the transmission of
vibraons between the loudspeakers and the oor. This results in an audible
improvement to the level of detail and realisc sound reproducon. For more
informaon and advice, please contact your dealer.
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Connecng the Loudspeakers
1. Please switch o all equipment in your HiFi system before you begin to
connect your loudspeakers.
2. Aach the loudspeaker cable to the connectors on the loudspeakers.
When doing so, please make sure that you have the right polarity.
As a rule, loudspeaker cables are accordingly labelled, either by a
permanent marking on one of the two conductors of the cable or by
plus “+” and “-“ markings on the cable ends.
3. Now connect the cable to your loudspeaker and make sure that you also
have the right polarity here.
4. The VIRGO`s connectors, which are shown in the image on the right,
accept both spades and banana plugs. Loose cable strands oxidise easily
and are not suitable for a permanently high-quality listening experience.
“Bi Wiring“ Operaon
If your loudspeaker is ed with a bi-wiring terminal and you would like to use this opon, please
connect the loudspeaker cable from the amplier for the le loudspeaker to the upper two
connectors on the le loudspeaker in order to control its midrange area and tweeter system and
a further cable to the connectors underneath in order to control the woofer system. Carry out the
same steps on the loudspeaker to the right of the listening posion. Please remove and retain the
respecve bi-wire bridges on the loudspeaker terminals before connecng the cables.
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A glance into the interior of the
Virgo 25plus shows the complex
design of the loudspeaker and the
ceramic elements (grey) for added
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Seng Up the Loudspeakers
1. The ideal placement of your loudspeakers in your room involves posioning them in an
isosceles triangle arrangement including your listening seat, creang equal spacing between
each loudspeaker and the listening posion.
2. The distance between the loudspeakers should be around 0.8 - 1.2 mes as much as the distance
between the loudspeakers and the listening posion. The closer you sit to the loudspeakers,
the more direct and dry your sound experience will be. As you move further away from the
loudspeakers, the bass response will normally increase and the spaal imaging will seem
more generous.
3. Where possible, the loudspeakers should be posioned half a metre away from the
surrounding walls. The larger the space between the loudspeakers and back wall, the more
precise the sound reproducon, parcularly
where bass frequencies are concerned.
4. The closer the loudspeakers come to the back wall (and/or side wall), the more powerful the
broadband reproducon of the low frequencies will be resulng in stronger bass tones.
This bass boost can, however, also result in a sound
reproducon that is undierenated and lacking
in detail, depending on how close the loudspeakers
are to the walls.
5. This eect can be made even more intense when the loudspeakers are placed in a corner. Low
tones become around 6 decibels (or more) louder and have a major eect on the sound
reproducon. Where possible, you should not
place your new loudspeakers in a corner because
the acousc condions in this posion do not allow
them to display their full range of sound
reproducon possibilies, instead they will stay far
below their actual sound potenal.
Setup close to the wall: Low frequencies are
broadly reinforced by around +3 and +6
decibels when the loudspeakers are positioned
close to the wall.
Setup away from the wall: The loudspeakers
are positioned at least 50 centimetres away
from the surrounding walls.
> 50 cm
> 50 cm
Setup in the corners of the room: Low tones
become signicantly louder and overlap into
the midrange frequencies. This results in a
washed-out and lethargic sound reproduction.
Bass boost of + 3 to + 6 dB
Bass boost > 6 dB
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6. Alongside the strength of the bass response, the distance from the side walls also parcularly
aects the localisaon of sound events and therefore the precision of the spaal imaging. As the
distance from the walls increases, the localisaon will become more precise and the sound will
be more balanced. When the loudspeakers are extremely close to the side walls, this will result
in early acousc reecons, leading to both reduced spaal percepon and a rather nervous
sound reproducon. Curtains or shelves or similar at the sides reduce this eect.
Posioning the Loudspeakers
1. Once the loudspeakers are posioned parallel to the side walls, turn them inwards unl an
imaginary line is poinng from the tweeter of each loudspeaker towards your preferred
listening posion. If you prefer to listen to music alone, these imaginary lines coming from
the loudspeakers should ‘intersect‘ at your listening posion. This will result in excellent
localisaon and spaal imaging. If you would rather listen to music in a group, turn the
loudspeakers further inwards so that the imaginary lines cross in front of the listening posion.
2. If you prefer a wider soundstage and more generous spaal imaging, posion the loudspeakers
at less of an angle so that the imaginary lines cross just behind the listening posion. Once a
specic angle has been reached, the spaal image in the centre between the loudspeakers will
begin to lose structure and precision. You can easily idenfy the ideal angle by using a mono
recording. When the voice of the arst sounds clear again and comes directly from the middle
between the loudspeakers, you have found the ideal posion.
You can nd an abundance of further ps concerning seng up your speakers and background
informaon on the topic of listening in the technical area of our website at: www.audiophysic.de
Second Step: Experiment with the angle.
When it comes to positioning your loudspea-
kers, your listening taste plays an important
role. To nd the ideal position, mono recor-
dings are extremely useful, particularly those
with a singing voice and few instruments.
First Step: Angle the loudspeakers so
that an imaginary line is in place between
the tweeters and your listening position.
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Technical Specicaons VIRGO 25plus
Height
Width
Depth
Required Space: Width x Depth
Weight
Recommended amplier power
Impedance
Frequency range
Sensivity
41.5“
9.1“
15.7“
14.7“ x 18.5“
71 lbs. each
30 - 180 watts
4 Ohm
30 Hz - 40 kHz
89 dB
Loudspeaker systems
Woofer 2 x 7“
Midrange 1 x 5.9“ / HHCM
Tweeter 1 x 1.75“ / HHCT-II
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Germany
Tel. [phone]; Fax [phone]
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