Energy Speaker Systems Veritas User Manual
Veritas
™
OWNERS MANUAL
Printed in Canada
7AI//EV201
Congratulations on your purchase of the new Veritas
™
Series speakers from ENERGY®Loudspeakers. The
proprietary technology in the Veritas
™
series has taken
years for the engineering division to design and
implement into this groundbreaking new speaker series.
Veritas
™
follows the lead of its predecessors by adhering to
four main goals.
1) To preserve the original recorded sound as closely as
possible – Musical Truth
™
2) To reduce distortion to its lowest possible
measurement
3) To maintain wide and constant dispersion, for superb
stereo imaging and soundstage
4) To maintain a wide signal bandwidth, even in the
smallest of enclosures
These goals are strictly adhered to in all stages of
transducer, crossover and enclosure design as well as in
the prototyping, electrical engineering, and all listening
tests. The Veritas
™
series has been designed from its
conception to musically outperform anything in its price
range. The new technologies realized by the engineering
group have dramatically reduced distortion. New
transducer and baffle designs have realized improvements
in diffraction, which vastly improves the stereo imaging of
a speaker. This new series embodies all that ENERGY
®
Loudspeakers has tried to accomplish in our 20+ years of
loudspeaker design and manufacturing.
We hope you will enjoy your speakers for many years,
and that the setup and placement suggestions contained
in this manual will serve to further enhance your
listening pleasure.
If you have any problems with the set up of your speakers
you can do one of the following:
1) After reading and understanding this manual, contact
your retailer for assistance. The ENERGY
®
Veritas
™
network of dealers has been trained to help our
customers learn more about the products they have
purchased and to assist in obtaining the ultimate in
performance from them.
2) Contact us via e-mail by way of the ENERGY
®
Website. This way we can get back to you quickly
with answers to your questions at your convenience.
(www.energy-speakers.com)
3) Contact us by phone during regular business hours
(8:30–5:00-EST) at 416-321-1800.
We truly believe your new ENERGY
®
Veritas™series
speakers will provide a lifetime of enjoyment and
pleasurable listening experiences!
WELCOME TO MUSICAL TRUTH
™
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The new ENERGY®Veritas™Series
Table of Contents
Welcome to Musical Truth
™
3
Table of Contents 4
Break in Procedures 5
Set-Up Basics 5
Advanced Set Up 5
Positioning the Front Speakers 5
Advanced Set Up 6
Placement of the Center Channel V2.0C 6
Placement of the Rear Channel V2.0R Speakers 6
Side Position 6
Rear Position 6
Corner Position 6
Proper Usage of the Veritas™Stand for V2.1 and V2.2 Models 7
Connection Instructions 8
Traditional Connection Method 8
Bi-Wire Method 8
Bi-Amplification Method 8
Bi-Amplification Wiring Instructions 8
Connecting the Veritas™2.0R Rear Channel Surround Speaker 9
Connection of V2.0R 9
Bi-Wiring and Bi-Amplification 9
Adjusting the V2.0R Rear Channel speaker 10
Mode Switch 10
Level Control 10
How to Set Up the Controls 11
Specification Page 12
Safety Concerns 13
Care of Finish 13
Spiked and Rubber Feet 13
Spike Installation Instructions 13
Limited Warranty Policy in the United States and Canada 14
Warranty Service 14
Warranty Outside of the United States and Canada 14
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Break in Procedures
It is VITAL that your new Veritas™speakers be allowed to
break In properly before you perform any precise set up
procedures, system adjustments, and before you play
them at higher volume levels.
The best method of performing the break in is to play a
full range musical passage at a moderate level as long as
possible. Utilizing the repeat function on your CD or DVD
player can assist greatly.
Optimum sound will not be achieved until approximately
100 hours of playing time. After break-in, the volume level
can be increased. Do not play the speakers at higher
levels until the break in process has been completed. The
transducers need to “loosen up”, and until this occurs,
damage can result to the transducers.
Set-Up Basics
There are three basic steps in the successful installation
of the system.
1) Decide where you wish to place the speakers
2) Connect the speakers
3) Adjust the controls where necessary
The most vital part of the set up procedure to realize the
goal of getting the best sound your room, and equipment
has to offer, is proper placement of the speakers. Please
wait until the speakers are fully broken in before
experimenting with precise speaker placement. There are
a few do's and don't's with regards to speaker placement.
1) With regards to the front speakers, try not to place
them too close or too far apart. The “1.5 times the
width” rule applies, and is required for good stereo
imaging from the front speakers. See the Advanced
Set Up section for details.
2) The center channel speaker needs to be centrally
located so that the dialog appears to be coming from
the center of the TV or Screen. See the Advanced Set
Up section for details.
3) The rear channel Veritas
™
2.0R are quite flexible with
regards to placement, but still require care when
choosing the placement. Study your room carefully
and decide whether the side walls are best, or the
rear walls. The goal is to try to position the speaker
system around you, so that you are “surrounded” by
the information from the different channels. The
choice of rear speaker placement depends greatly on
the position of the listeners. The ultimate goal, is to
have the rear speakers approximately the same
distance from the listeners as the front speakers. If the
room's layout does not allow for this, then the basic
rule is to place the front and rear speakers in the
room so that they form a square or rectangle around
the listeners. More details are found ahead.
Advanced Set Up
POSITIONING THE FRONT SPEAKERS
The placement of the front speakers in relation to the
listener is absolutely critical. The perfect set up would
place the listener at the end of a triangle, with the
distance from speaker to listener being 1.5 times the width
between the two speakers. The minimum distance
between the speakers is 6-8 feet, any less and the stereo
imaging will be quite poor.
The optimum room shape would be a rectangular room,
with the speakers along the short wall, facing towards the
other short wall. Placement in corners, and against a wall
is not recommended. Try to keep the speakers, especially
rear vented models a minimum of 2 feet from the back
wall, and corner placement is usually the worst of all
possible places to put a speaker.
The ENERGY
®
design philosophy of Wide and Constant
Dispersion provides a wide image, and clarity off axis from
the speaker. For best results, utilize the side walls of the
room to enhance the size and depth of the image.
See Figure 1A.
FIGURE 1A
Advanced Set Up
PLACEMENT OF THE
CENTER CHANNEL V2.0C
The center channel needs to be placed either above or
below the TV monitor, but as close to the TV as possible.
The center channel carries dialogue information which
should sound like it is emanating from the center of the
TV. If using a Rear Projection Television, then above is
probably your only choice. If you have a front projection
system, than you have alternate choices of either stand
mounting, or placement on furniture, etc.
When deciding on the center channel speaker placement,
it is important to place the speaker so that the edge of the
speakers' front is at the edge of the shelf or stand
supporting it. Unwanted diffraction would occur if the
center channel is situated too far back into a cabinet or
other surface with edges that could impede the dispersion
of the speaker. See Figure 1B.
PLACEMENT OF THE REAR CHANNEL
V2.0R SPEAKERS
The Rear Channel V2.0R speakers are optimally placed on
either the sides of your listening area, or the rear walls.
The V2.0R has been designed with installation flexibility as
its key goal. The side firing mid-fill transducers coupled
with the front firing woofer and tweeter combine to
produce various levels and effects depending on the
speakers' location, and how the “SoundField
Management” System is adjusted. The following are
suggestions of where you can place your V2.0R speakers.
See Figure 1B.
SIDE POSITION
The optimal placement for the V2.0R's on the side of the
room, would be beside the listening area, a few feet
behind the couch, at a height approximately 2/3 of the
wall height from the floor. The “SoundField Management”
System can be adjusted in many different ways. Refer to
the separate section for adjusting the “SoundField
Management” System.
REAR POSITION
The rear wall can also be used for placement of the rear
V2.0R speakers. The optimum placement would be on
either side of the listening area, but not in the corners of
the room. Experimentation with the “SoundField
Management” System will yield many different results.
Refer to the separate section for adjusting the “SoundField
Management” System.
CORNER POSITION
If you are limited to a corner placement of the rear
channel speakers, we have designed a special “SoundField
Management” mode for this purpose. It will turn off the
side firing mid-fill driver above the control panel. Please
notice that the two rear channel speakers are mirrorimaged of each other. When mounting the speakers, be
sure to put the control panel facing the corner. This way
the corner facing mid driver will not emanate sound. The
other mid driver which faces out into the room, will
produce sound.
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FIGURE 1B
REAR OR CORNER POSITION
RIGHT
SIDE POSITION
LEFT
RIGHT MAIN
CHANNEL
CENTER
SIDE POSITION
LEFT MAIN
SUBWOOFER
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