GamuT RS3 User Manual

Welcome to GamuT & The El Superiores

The El Superiores Speakers are the first products

I have created which fully follows the ideas and

solutions that have emerged from now more than

21 years of professional develoment work in the

audio industry.

Having created The El Superiores line of product

have been the greatest professional & musical

experience for me and the GamuT team, and has

definitely broadened our borders of how

accurately live music can be reproduced through

dynamic acoustics transducers.

We have had so many rewarding musical

experiences developing the El Superiores line of

products

Following the instructions in this manual is your

first step towards having the same or maybe even

better musical results

We welcome you to the world of ultimate musical

experiences.

Yours Sincerely

GamuT Audio

Lars Goller

Contents

Welcome to GamuT & The El Superiores Page 3

The El Superiores, your serial number Page 5

Setting up

• Guidelines Page 6

•Calculating Positions Page 7

•Features & Pre-cautions Page 8

• Connections Page 9

• Optimizing the Sonic Performance Page 10

Product specifications

• El Superiores in General Page 11

• S9 Page 11

• S8 Page 12

• S7 Page 12

• S5 Page 13

• SC5 Centro Page 14

• S3 Page 14

• S3 Column Page 14

El Superiores Product highlights Page 15 &

Page 16

Maintenance & Care Page 17

Thank you Page 18

The El Superiores

You are now entering
the world of GamuT
on the very highest

level.

Your El Superiores

is part of a sublime

series of the finest
acoustic transducers of
this world.

The El Superiores

sets a new standard in
reproducing music
closer to the real live
event, giving you
greater pleasure from
all your precious
recorded pieces of
music.

We wish you welcome

to the next level of

musical enjoyment.

S3 XX

Your El Superiores
Serial number is

located on the
backside punched
into the Solid wood.

Your serial no. Is:

On the S3,
as seen on this
page,
you will find the
serial number
between the port
opening and the
terminal board

On the
S9, S8, S7 & S5.
All having two port
openings, the serial
number is located

in between

these two
port-openings on
the back side.

Setting up: Guide Lines

Three basic elemets must be optimized to get the
maximum performance from your El Superiores:

1. Speaker Positioning

2. Tilting (the angle relative to vertical) and Toe (the
angle relative to pointing straight forward)

3. The Listening position

• Before Finding these positions and making
adjustments, it must be understood that any
speaker performance will be negatively influenced
when not positioned correctly. Please follow the
instructions to obtain the best possible
performance.

• Load effects caused by the room dimensions are
compensated in the speaker design, meaning that

theEl Superiores are optimized to perform their

best in rooms of normal dimensions. A very small
room, extremely large rooms or open spaces will
give less than optimum performance.

• The Speaker Positioning and the Listening
position are the first things to find. These postions
are easily explained as the positions in the room
where the least amount of negative room
influence is observed.

• With no diffusion or damping of the reflections, a

minimum distance to walls is recommended to be

1 meter (approximately 3’4”). With diffusion or

damping of reflections a position closer to walls
can be acceptable. More importantly, larger
distances to walls will improve the overall
performance.

• The minimum Listening distance is recommended
to 2.0m for the S3 & S5, 2,5m for the S7 and 3.0m
for the S8 & S9. The minimum spacing between
the speakers we recommend to be 2.0m for the
S3 & S5 & 2,5m for the S7, S8 & S9.

Setting up: Calculating Positions

• Calculating the position of your El Superiores and the

Listening position is quite simple.
First measure the dimensions of your room and fill in the
numbers in the diagram below.
Divide these dimensions with 3 or 5 or 7 as indicated &
follow the sketch below.

If you are having a non rectangular room, the primary

consideration is to obtain the minimum distances to all
walls, the spacing between speakers and the listening
distance.
Try to set up the speakers in uneven fractions of the room
dimensions, as done in rectangular rooms.

Setting up: Features & pre-cautions

•All El Superiores speakers are equipped with a non
resonant stainless steel spike system. The

Spike system makes it possble to adjust the vertical and

horisontal tilt of the speaker, to compensate for floor

conditions and optimize the sonic performance to the
preferred listening position.

• Floor protective devices are supplied with all El
Superiores to save delicate hard surface floors from
harm.
Place them underneath the spikes to protect your floors

•The spikes on the S9 require an 8 mm Allen-Key
/Unbrako-Key for adjustment.

•Other El Superiores speakers require a 6 mm Allen
Key/ Unbraco-Key for adjustment

•Use the spike system to align your El Superiores
horisontally and vertically and followingly position your
speakers pointing straight forward with no Toe-in

•It is now time to connect to your amplifier & run in
your speakers, see connections page 8.

•Your EL Superiores are pre-run in and will perform
decently out of the box, but will require a period of

minimum 20 hours at high listening volume, preferably
on music with a good powerfull bass content, before we
recommend to fine tune the setup

•For maximum performance the speakers will need
app. 200 Hours of run in time, and aging of min. 6
months in normal light and humidity conditions for all
materials to settle.

Setting up: Connections

When using a single pair of wires,
use the woofer negative input & the
tweeter positive input.

When using Bi-Wiring or Bi-Amping

(two pairs of wires or two amplifiers):

remove the two bridging plates.

The tweeter inputs:

The top terminal is the NEGATIVE input
and the second terminal from the
bottom is the POSITIVE input for the
tweeter

Cut view of the

GamuT

”Stripped Wire

Terminal”

The woofer inputs:

The second terminal from the top is
the NEGATIVE input and the lowest
terminal is the POSITIVE input for the
woofer

Pressure insert

Connection for
bananaplugs

Stripped wires

Bridging
Plate & Nut

Terminal
base

Cable

Terminal Main Nut

Setting up: Optimizing the Sonic Performance

• After run in it is time to fine tune the performance

of your speakers.

• The positioning in the room, the toe-in and the

vertical tilt of the speakers are all elements that
lets you adjust the bass, midrange and treble and
optimize the dynamic and 3-dimensional size &
character of the recording room, instruments &
voices.

• The positioning in the room determines the Low

frequency character (Bass performance). In
general the bass output will increase by moving the
speaker closer to walls and less bass will be
achieved by moving the speaker away from walls.

The El Superiores are designed to work in normal
rooms so a position too far from walls will result in

the upper bass/lower mid being too low in level. A
position too close to walls will result in too much
upper bass and lower midrange overexadjurating
male voice and drums etc.

• Vertical Tilting of the speaker will adjust the

dynamic character of the speaker. A forward
vertical tilt of the speaker will cause the tweeter
signals to arrive earlier than the midrange signal. A

too bright and ”agressive” character will be the

result if tilted too far forward. If tilted too far
back, a too laid back and dull character will be the
result

• Toe-in adjusts the level of high frequencies (treble).

We have designed our speakers to be listened to at
an angle from 10-30 degrees off axis. Depending on
the acoustic character of your room the high
frequency level can be adjusted by simply turning
the speaker towards the listening position to
enhance the higher frequencies (treble), or you can
lower the high frequency content by turning the
speaker away from the listening position (pointing
closer to straight forward).

Product Specifications

El Superiores in general

Enclosure type: Impulse optimized Bass Reflex
Enclosure build: Laminated and Form pressed Solid wood over

multilayered Birch plywood.
Enclosure construction: Internal Bracing and pressure control
segments with externally machined groves for optimized cabinet
surface behaviour.
Enclosure Acoustics Internally: critically positioned & optimized
acoustic elements
Front cover: Acoustically invisible stainless steel rods & fabric coated
rubber strings, all screw assembled and adjusted by hand.

Driver separation: By acoustic elements only
Network: Impulse correct and resonance optimized NRLI.
Input terminals: GamuT machined Stainless steel, Brass and Gold

plated Copper terminals.
Connection options: Minimum loss bare wire connection, Spades or 4
mm Banana.
Separate connection for the tweeter and for the mid / woofer section

Internal wiring: GamuT “Worm Holes“ wires

The S9

Floor coupling: Solid Integrated stainless steel spike system,
resonance controlled.
Port Openings: 2 x Machined solid Brass in a Solid stainless steel
flange, optimized flow, anti resonance coupled to the enclosure.
Woofer: 3 x 10,5" dynamic optimized, solid wood reinforced and fluid
rubber damped cone structure
Midrange: 1 x 7" sliced cone, dynamic optimized GamuT Hand treated

cone structure.

Tweeter: 1,5" impulse and resonance optimized Double ring radiator,
with GamuT stainless steel wave guide
Network configuration: 3 - way, DC coupled midrange, baffle­corrected for free in room placement

Impedance: 4 ohms nominal
Minimum impedance: 3,2 ohms at 250 Hz
Crossover point: 250 & 2250 Hz
Sensitivity: 89.0 dB/2.83V
Frequency response: 18Hz - 60 kHz
Dimensions: 1670mm (H) 320mm (W) 802mm (D)

Weight: 185 kg

Recommended amplifier for maximum performance : minimum

200W & maximum 800W into 4 ohms

Product Specifications

The S8

Floor coupling: Solid stainless steel spike system, resonance
controlled.
Port Openings: 2 x 5 mm solid aluminium, optimized flow, anti
resonance coupled to the enclosure

Woofer: 3 x 8"" dynamic optimized, solid wood reinforced and fluid

rubber damped cone structure
Midrange: 1 x 7" sliced cone, dynamic optimized GamuT Hand
treated cone structure.
Tweeter: 1,5" impulse and resonance optimized Double ring radiator,
with GamuT stainless steel wave guide
Network configuration: 3 - way, DC coupled midrange, baffle­corrected for free in room placement

Impedance: 4 ohms nominal
Minimum impedance: 3,2 ohms at 250 Hz
Crossover point: 250 & 2200
Sensitivity: 89.0dB/2.83V
Frequency response: 21Hz - 60 kHz
Dimensions: 1525mm (H) 272mm (W) 749mm (D)
Weight: 125 kg
Recommended amplifier for maximum performance : minimum

200W & maximum 800W into 4 ohms.

The S7

Floor coupling: Solid stainless steel spike system, resonance
controlled.
Port Openings: 2 x 5 mm solid aluminium, optimized flow, anti

resonance coupled to the enclosure

Woofers: 2 x 7" sliced cone, dynamic optimized, GamuT Hand
treated cone structure, moving mass optimized for optimum
dynamic behaviour.
Midrange: 1 x 7" sliced cone, dynamic optimized, GamuT Hand
treated cone structure.
Tweeter: 1,5" impulse and resonance optimized Double ring radiator,
with GamuT stainless steel wave guide
Network configuration: 3 - way, DC coupled midrange, baffle­corrected for free in room placement

Impedance: 4 ohms nominal
Minimum impedance: 2,9 ohms at 250 Hz
Crossover point: 250 & 2150
Sensitivity: 89.0dB/2.83V
Frequency response: 27Hz - 60 kHz
Dimensions: 1280mm (H) 226mm (W) 642mm (D)
Weight: 68 kg
Recommended amplifier for maximum performance: minimum

150W & Maximum 700W into 4 ohms.

Product Specifications

The S5

Floor coupling: Solid stainless steel spike system, resonance
controlled.
Port Openings: 2 x 5 mm solid aluminium, optimized flow, anti
resonance coupled to the enclosure

Woofer/mid: 2 x 7" sliced cone, dynamic optimized, GamuT Hand
treated cone structure.
Tweeter: 1,5" impulse and resonance optimized Double ring radiator,
with GamuT stainless steel wave guide
Network configuration: 2 1/2 - way, baffle-corrected for free in room

placement

Impedance: 4 ohms nominal
Minimum impedance: 3 ohms at 210 Hz
Crossover point: 550 & 2250 Hz
Sensitivity: 89.5dB/2.83V
Frequency response: 31Hz - 60 kHz

Dimensions: 1210mm (H) 226mm (W) 575mm (D)
Weight: 54 kg
Recommended amplifier for maximum performance: minimum

150W into 4 ohms. & maximum 600W into 4 ohms.

The SC5 Centro

Ground coupling: Solid MDF and rubber feet.
Port Openings: 2 x 5 mm solid aluminium, optimized flow, anti

resonance coupled to the enclosure

Woofer/mid: 2 x 7" sliced cone, dynamic optimized, GamuT Hand
treated cone structure.
Tweeter: 1,5" impulse and resonance optimized Double ring radiator,
with GamuT stainless steel wave guide
Network configuration: 2 1/2 - way, baffle-corrected for free in room
placement

Impedance: 4 ohms nominal
Minimum impedance: 3 ohms at 210 Hz
Crossover point: 550 & 2250 Hz
Sensitivity: 89.5dB/2.83V
Frequency response: 36Hz - 60 kHz

Dimensions: 1150mm (W) 270mm (H) 460mm (D)
Weight: 48 kg

Recommended amplifier for maximum performance: minimum

100W into 4 ohms & maximum 500W into 4 ohms.

Product Specifications

The S3:

Port Opening: 5 mm thick aluminium, optimized flow, anti
resonance coupled to the enclosure

Woofer/mid: 7" sliced cone, dynamic optimized, GamuT Hand
treated cone structure.

Tweeter: 1,5" impulse and resonance optimized Double ring
radiator, with GamuT stainless steel wave guide

Network configuration: 2-way baffle-corrected for free in room
placement

Impedance: 5 ohms nominal
Minimum impedance: 4.0 ohms at 220 Hz
Crossover point: 2150 Hz

Sensitivity: 87.5dB/2.83V

Frequency response: 38Hz - 60 kHz

Dimensions: 400mm (H) 226mm (W) 456mm (D)
Weight: 24 kg

Recommended amplifier for maximum performance: minimum

100W & maximum 400W into 4 ohms.

The S3 Column:

Construction: Solid Lamination of Form pressed Solid wood over
multilayered Birch plywood.

Cables groove on the back side of the Column

Mounting to the S3: Bolt on

Floor coupling: Solid stainless steel spike system, resonance &
flexibility controlled.

Height: 615mm

Weight: 22kg
Dimensions: 659mm (H), 270mm (W), 463 (D)

El Superiores Product highlights

Enclosure Construction:

Form pressed Solid wood over multi layered Finnish Birch plywood.
This construction in itself has a subjective more pleasing harmonic

structure than solid wood alone or solid MDF.

Form pressing minimizes the need for panel damping by leaving an
inherent force in the structure that in itself causes faster decay of non
wanted vibration.
The internal fan shaped reinforcement structure in combination with
the externally machined Canals in the solid wood, divides the side walls
in separate segments with less vibration differentiated to multiple
frequencies, resulting in a minimum of colouration.

Internal acoustics:

The internal pressure is guided and controlled by the fan shaped
reinforcement structure, and a full height vertical reinforcement
structure. These critically positioned structures time aligns the coupling
to the port openings and holds the internal acoustic dampening
material to achieve an optimum of dynamic linearity simultaneously
with a well damped acoustic environment.

Port openings

are machined solid brass threaded into solid stainless steel held in solid
wood
This design eliminates resonance by the port structure itself, increases
the accuracy of the tuning and minimizes port turbulence and noise.

The connection terminals

are solid stainless steel over brass and Gold plated OFC copper.
The Terminals are designed to minimize contact resistance by
optimizing the surface contact area by using striped wire.
The terminals also accept Banana plugs, or custom spades.

The front cover

is designed to have no audible influence on the performance.
We use solid stainless steel side rods, and a high quality fabric woven
rubber strings to protect the drivers.

The floor coupling

devices are designed to be non resonant, by adding rubber dampening
rings inserted into the stainless steel base plates (S9), or by having a
rubber pad adding force into the spike itself, thereby eliminating
resonance of the combined structure.
Hard Floor protective coupling devices are supplied with the speakers,
assuring best possible protection of delicate floors

El Superiores Product highlights

The 85kg stainless steel base

for the S9 is chosen to lower the point of gravity to optimize stability.
Other S series are designed with wider spike positioning resulting in
same relative levels of stability, The spike systems are all solid
stainless steel

Drivers: specially designed & optimized for the El Superiores.

-Special fluent rubber damped solid wood inserts are used in the S8 and

S9 bass drivers, and a hand applied mass load is used in the S7 woofers to
optimize the acoustic behaviour and dynamic accuracy of the bass
system.

-Midrange drivers are receiving a specially developed hand applied
treatment of the cone structure that minimizes colouration and optimizes
the natural reproduction of voices and instruments.

The NRLI network. Our Non resonant Linked Impulse solution:

-NRLI is designed to operate in the time-domain and perform resonance
control.

-NRLI aligning the drive-units impulse wise

-NRLI is optimizing the resonant behaviour of the individual drivers and

the network itself .

DC coupled midrange: DCCM

-The DCCM purpose is to eliminate the phase shift between the midrange
and woofers seen in conventional network designs.

-The DC coupling means that the midrange driver is directly connected to
the amplifier, not using a capacitor to filter the low frequencies.

-The DCCM filtering (attenuation) of low frequencies is done by using a
combination of series and parallel layout of the network, thereby

achieving the attenuation of the lower frequencies without adding phase

shift to the midrange signals.

The GamuT “WormHoles” cables

A new GamuT development.

-The “WormHoles” optimizes the impulse behaviour and controls the
resonant character of the Cable load

-The “WormHoles” design minimizes the influence by the electric
insulation

-The design consists of individual insulated conductors, with a special
surrounding woven material.

-The “WormHoles” design weaves two individual wires into one single
pair of wires.

-The “WormHoles” proprietary design minimizes stored energy in the
cable, and diversifies it away from the signal path

-The Benefit: Transparency, Clarity & Freedom of coloration and
resonance.

The protective
strings

in the front cover
are made from
elastic bands
covered with a
woven Fabric.

Use a cleaning

agent suited for
synthetic
materials

Stainless steel is
used as the
general material
for all non treated
metallic surfaces.

Exceptions are
the Gold plated
terminal parts &
the Solid
Aluminium Port(s)
for the S3, S5,
SC5, S7 & S8, and
the Solid Brass
Ports for the S9.

Use dedicated
cleaning agents

on a soft cloth to

clean.

Maintenance

Solid Hard wood
Oil &Wax treated
enclosures.

To preserve the
delicate wood
surfaces intact, it
is needed to oil or
wax the wood
surfaces on a
regular basis.

Not doing so may
open up the wood
caused by the
wood shrinking.

Re-Oiling dryed
wood will in most
cases close the
openings in the
wood.

Use a Clean lint
free cloth to oil
and clean the

enclosure.

Any dedicated
wood oil or our
GamuT wood oil
may be used to
keep the wood
saturated and in
perfect condition

Thank you

All at GamuT wishes you

happy ownership and many

hours of

musical pleasure

If you should ever experience

problems or have any questions

about your El Superiores

and needs to contact us directly

please use the contact details

below.

E-mail: [e-mail]

Web: www.gamutaudio.com

GamuT International A/S

Sandgaardsvej 31

Birk

7400 Herning

Denmark

Phone: [phone]

Fax: [phone]

Yours Sincerely

Lars Goller

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GamuT Audio

Naver vej 6
7430 Ikast
Denmark

www.GamuTaudio.com

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El Superiores