JBL SCS 188 User Manual

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JBL SCS 188 User Manual

O W N E R ’ S G U I D E

PRODUCT LINE:

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MODEL SCS 178 and SCS 188 (230V)

NUMBER:

DESIGN GOAL: Bring the thrill of live performance and movie sound to the home environment by calling on JBL’s professional engineering leadership.

SATELLITE TYPE:Titanium-laminate-dome tweeter, reflex-loaded enclosure

SUBWOOFER TYPE: Bass-reflex enclosure

PORT DESIGN: FreeFlow™ flared

PROFESSIONAL REFERENCE: Cinema Loudspeaker Series

T H A N K Y O U F O R C H O O S I N G J B L

For more than 55 years, JBL

We’re confident that the JBL

or office, you will once again

 

 

 

has been involved in every

system you have chosen will

choose JBL.

 

 

 

aspect of music and film

provide every note of enjoment

 

 

recording and reproduction,

that you expected – and that

JBL Consumer Products

 

from live performances to the

when you think about

 

 

recordings you play in your

purchasing additional audio

 

 

home, car or office.

equipment for your home, car

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I N C L U D E D

Four satellites for left/right

One center channel speaker.

Powered subwoofer.

front and surrounds. SCS 188

 

 

contains an additional satellite

 

 

to be used as surround back.

 

 

 

Two 6.1-meter (20-foot) speaker

Two (Three in SCS 188)

 

cables for connection from

12.2-meter (40-foot) speaker

 

receiver to subwoofer.

cables for connection from

 

 

receiver to left and right rear

 

Three 4.6-meter (15-foot)

satellites and surround back

 

speaker cables for connection

speaker. (SCS 188 only)

 

from subwoofer to front

 

 

speakers and center speaker.

 

CAUTION

RISK OF ELECTRIC SHOCK

DO NOT OPEN

CAUTION: To prevent electric shock, do not remove the grounding plug on the power cord, or use any plug or extension cord that does not have a grounding plug provided.

Make certain that the

AC outlet is properly grounded. Do not use an adapter plug with this product.

The lightning flash with arrowhead symbol, within an equilateral triangle, is intended to alert the user to the presence of uninsulated “dangerous voltage” within the product’s enclosure that may be of sufficient magnitude to constitute a risk of electric shock to persons.

The exclamation point within an equilateral triangle is intended to alert the user to the presence of important

2 operating and maintenance (servicing) instructions in the literature accompanying the appliance.

S P E A K E R P L A C E M E N T

Front Speakers

Center Channel Speaker Subwoofer

0 – 0.6m (0 – 2 ft.)

Surround Speakers

150-180 cm

The front speakers should be

The two surround speakers

The low-frequency material

placed the same distance from

should be placed slightly

reproduced by the subwoofer is

each other as they are from the

behind the listening position

mostly omnidirectional, and this

listening position. They should

and, ideally, should face each

speaker may be placed in a

be placed at about the same

other and be at a level higher

convenient location in the

height from the floor as the

than the listeners’ ears. If that

room. However, the best

listeners’ ears will be, or they

is not possible, they may be

reproduction of bass will be

may be angled toward the

placed on a wall behind the

heard when the subwoofer is

listeners.

listening position, facing for-

placed in a corner along the

 

ward. The surround back

same wall as the front

The center channel speaker

speaker (in SCS 188 only)

speakers. Experiment with

should be placed slightly

should be placed behind the

subwoofer placement by

behind the front left and right

listening position, facing the

temporarily placing the

speakers, and no more than

center speaker. The surround

subwoofer in the listening

two feet above or below the

speakers should not call

position and moving around the

tweeters of the left and right

attention to themselves.

room until the bass

speakers. It is often convenient

Experiment with their

reproduction is best. Place the

to set the center speaker on top

placement until you hear a

subwoofer in that location.

of the television set, as shown

diffuse, ambient sound

 

 

 

in the drawing.

accompanying the main

 

 

 

 

program material heard in the

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

front speakers.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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