Boston acoustics E100 User Manual

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E100

Speakers

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Front View

Boston E100 Series Dimension Sheet

For more information on the E Series or any Boston
product, please contact Boston Technical Support at

1.978.538.5000 or by email at: [e-mail]

Top View

Wall Bracket

EBR

73/64’’

1

/64’’

179mm

7

1

/4’’

185mm

4

102mm

9’’

229mm

72

1892mm

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Specifications . . . . . . . . . 5

Inspection . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

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etup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Vertical . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6

Wall Mounting . . . . . . . . 6

Miscellaneous . . . . . . . . .6

Wire Management . . . . . .6

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lacement . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Staggering Distances . . . 7
The Ambience Tweeter . 8
Adding a Subwoofer . . . 8
Conventional Hookup . . .9

Bi-wiring . . . . . . . . . . . . .10

Bi-amping . . . . . . . . . . .10

Acoustics . . . . . . . . . . . .11

Bass Management . . . . .11

Contact Information . . .11

Boston Acoustics

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E Series Reference
Speakers

While the E Series is Boston

Acoustics’ flagship home speaker

ine, with each model combining

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coustical performance of a truly

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superior order with strikingly
handsome looks and a high
degree of application flexibility
that make them perfect for cus­tom installations. The top-of-the­line E1

00 is something special. It
is simply the smoothest loud­speaker ev
year history of Boston Acoustics.
Remarkably accurate, neutral, and
revealing, it will immediately take
its place among the very finest
high-end designs available today.
What is most unusual, and shared
by very few loudspeakers, is its
airy spaciousness, resulting from
the E100 cabinet’s slimness and
smoothly rounded corners, which
makes all playback utterly natu­ral, floating about the cabinets.

audio than superb sound. The
E100 uses construction tech­niques and materials that are not
just novel — resulting in a com­pact form factor — but elegant.
The fashionable appearance
means it’s the perfect solution
for stylish home theater applica­tions as well as music-only
rooms. The E100 design blends
attractively into decors both
modern and traditional, and
does so almost unobtrusively,
too, as it may be oriented either
vertically on its base, or even
horizontally as a center channel.

and more attention was paid to
detail in the development of the E
Series than in any previous Boston
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started with the shape:
boxes
thin cabinets us
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with the goal of creating audio

er produced in the 27-

Yet there is more to home

The design details tell the tale,

coustics products. The design

not plain

, the line is complex, curved,

ing an appealing

ariety of textures and materials,

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bjects that are almost jewel-like.

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eneath the dazzling finishes are

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high-performance loudspeaker
technologies, cleverly deployed.
The E100 uses one each of our

orld-famous VR 1-inch alu-

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inum-dome tweeter and the

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ew, higher-output VR

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weeter. Its woofers feature cast-

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aluminum baskets, oversized
voice coils, and neodymium
magnets for greater power han-

ling, increased output, and

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uperior reliability. All of these

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100 drivers were developed

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exclusively for this project at
Boston Acoustics’ leading-edge
transducer development facility

n Peabody, Massachusetts.

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he story of the cabinet begins

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ith a part of the speakers that

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annot be seen: the 5mm-thick

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extruded-aluminum enclosure.
Extruded aluminum is extremely
rigid, letting the speakers’ drivers

reate The Boston Sound® without

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ompeting with energy coming

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from the enclosure itself. Such an
enclosure also facilitates the E100’s
complex shape in a way that tradi­tional box designs could not. But
we did not rely exclusively on the
material properties of aluminum
to maximize enclosure stiffness.
Extensiv

e ribbing and internal
bracing increase cabinet rigidity to
the point of making it virtually
inert; spurious resonances and
vibrations that degrade the sound
of ordinary speakers are eliminat­ed. Furthermore, the loudspeaker
drivers ordinarily would be
mounted directly to the front of
the aluminum extrusion. However,
Boston’s engineers discovered that
using a dissimilar material would
isolate the drivers from the cabinet
even more, maximizing output
and minimizing coloration, and
attached a thick MDF baffle to the
front. The overall construction is
so special that we applied for a
trademark for it: StabiliTek™.

An additional design feature,
which is oriented more toward
style and flexibility than sound, is
its interchangeable GroovLock™
side panels. All models are avail­able with either high-gloss cherry
or satin ebony hardwood-veneer
side panels. A third option is
unfinished side panels, which can
be veneered, stained, painted, or
covered in cloth to match your
exact décor requirements.

The Boston Acoustics E100 is the
culmination of almost three
decades of extensive experience
dev

eloping superior loudspeakers,
and our proudest achiev
thank y

ou for your purchase, and

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e are confident you will enjoy

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our speakers for decades to come.

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