Unpacking
Carefully remove your new RtR speakers from their
boxes, avoiding staples which can cause damage
to the cabinets. Inspect each speaker for transit
damage. If you discover damage, contact your
dealer immediately.
Save your cartons – they are the best possible
protection for your speakers should you ever have
a need to move them.
Positioning Your Speakers
The room that you choose to use as your home
theater will add its own “sonic signature” to the
sound of your system. In selecting a room and
speaker position, it is important to remember the
effect of furnishings, materials, and surfaces, and
how room dimensions affect your speakers’ perfor-
mance. Experimentation in speaker placement is
necessary to choose the best arrangement for
your optimum experience. Your RtR dealer may
prove helpful in establishing a starting point by
which to discover optimum placement. However,
here are a few general rules to get you started.
Choice of room – if you have a choice as to
which room in your home to use as the listening
room, here are some things to look for:
nRooms with varying wall lengths, non-parallel
walls, uneven ceilings, and generally varying
dimensions will usually produce a more even
sound and offer a greater variety of choices
for speaker placement.
nAn even mixture of hard and soft surfaces will
typically help neutralize the sound of the room.
Soft surfaces such as stuffed furniture, heavy
curtains, and carpet absorb higher frequencies
while hard surfaces such as glass and hard-
wood floors tend to cause greater reverberation
at the higher octaves.
nSolid wall construction and concrete floors
provide the best vibration-free foundation for
your system.
IMPORTANT HINT: Adjustments to the sound of
your room can often be made very simply. Hanging
pictures on a wall to create an uneven surface,
drawing the drapes one way or the other,or moving a
piece of furniture can often create the desired effect.
Remember to experiment!
The Optimum Listening Position
Home theater and music are great joys of life,
particularly when enjoyed in the
comfort of your
own home. When choosing the location of your
speakers, remember to base your decision around
Figure 1
your favorite chair or most comfortable listening
position. (See Figure 1).
The Distance Between Each Speaker
This part will require some experimentation and is
somewhat dependent on the size of the listening
area. As a general rule, the best results are usually
attained when the speakers are 6 feet apart cen-
tered on your TV. In larger rooms, greater distance
between the speakers is possible but may require
angling in of the speakers for the maximum effect.
Distance Between the Speakers,
the Rear Wall, and Side Wall
We have achieved optimum results throughout
design phases, listening tests, and evaluation with
the speaker 2 to 3 feet out from the rear wall (see
Figure 2). Moving the speaker closer to the rear wall
or a room corner will tend to “color” or enhance the
lower frequencies. Placing the speaker closer to the
rear wall will also tend to adversely affect the depth
of the stereo image.
Hooking Up Your New Speakers
STOP! – Make sure that you consult your amplifier’s
owner’s manual regarding speaker hook-up.Your
amplifier should be turned off throughout this
procedure.
Aword about speaker wire – There are a number
of quality speaker wire products available today.
Most of these products offer obvious cosmetic
benefits over lamp cord and light gauge wires. RtR
Speaker Systems come equipped with gold-plated
binding posts.The choice of speaker wire is depen-
dent on the type of amplifier, the distance you intend
to run the wire, and your budget, among other
things. If in doubt as to which brand or type of wire
and connector to use, consult your audio dealer.
Most speaker wire is polarity coded. This means
that each conductor is labeled either (+) positive or
(-) negative. The (+) positive side may be a differ-
ent color or texture than the (-) negative side. On
Rear Wall
Side Wall
Figure 2
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Note: The distance between yourself and
the point directly between the speakers is
slightly (roughly 20%) greater than the
distance between the two speakers.
Note: For best results, maintain a
maximum distance away from the side wall
consistent with speaker separation.
the back of your amplifier, each channel is
probably labeled (+) and (-) as well as color
coded red for (+) positive and black for (-)
negative. RtR speaker terminals are color coded
red for (+) positive and black for (-) negative. Be
sure to hook (+) to (+), (red to red), and (-) to (-),
(black to black). (See Figure 3.) All connections
should be tight and close fitting. Inspect connec-
tions for frays and stray strands of wire touching
both (+) and (-) terminals. (This will cause a short
and, perhaps, damage your equipment.)
Caring for Your Speakers
RtR speaker cabinets are finished with a very
high quality polymer laminate covering that is
both attractive and serves as excellent protection
for the wood cabinet. The cabinet can be cleaned
with a damp, soft cloth or you may use a high-
quality furniture polish to maintain the original
luster. Use a soft brush or hand vacuum cleaner
on the grille material.
Troubleshooting and Service
If you have a problem, first try to determine if it
is indeed a speaker problem. Determine whether
the problem exists in both speakers. If it does,
the problem likely originates in some other
component in the system. If the problem is in
one speaker only, reverse your speaker leads
(left to right, right to left). If the problem moves
to the other channel, your problem is not in the
speakers.
Once you have determined that you have a
speaker problem, contact your dealer for author-
ized factory service information. If you are unable
to contact your dealer, if your dealer is unable to
solve your problem, or if you have any questions or
comments regarding your RtR Speaker System,
please contact us at:
B.I.CAmerica
925 Shepard Street
Anaheim, CA 92806
Tech Support: 1-877-558-4242(4BIC)
Please describe the problem in detail. We will
decide on the most appropriate course of action.
