Legacy Audio Focus Owners Manual

1. Warranty

2. Unpacking/Speaker Placement

3. Designer’s Note

5. The Cabinetry/Our Commitment

6. Connections/Fine-tuning

7. Specifications

8. Hook-Up Cables

9. Amplifier

10. For The Tweakers

11. Biamplification

Thank you for selecting a Legacy Loudspeaker System. These
hand-crafted instruments will provide you with many years of
listening enjoyment. Please take a few moments to read this brief
manual to insure maximum benefit from your speaker system.

Limited Warranty

Legacy Audio, Inc. extends to the original owner coverage of
defects in materials and workmanship for a period of 90 days
from the date of purchase. To extend this warranty to 10 years,
please fill out the enclosed warranty card and return to Legacy
Audio.

This warranty does not include a) damage in shipment, b)
damage caused by accidental or intentional misuse or abuse, c)
units not registered with Legacy Audio, d) damage resulting from
unauthorized modifications or repairs. Liability is limited to the
repair or replacement, at our option, of any defective component
and shall not include property or consequential damages which
may result from the failure of this product.

Customer Record

Model No. ____________________________

Serial No. _____________________________

Date of Purchase ____ / ____ / ____

Owner _______________________________

Street Address _________________________

City ______________ State _____ Zip _____

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Unpacking

Your new speaker system has been very carefully packaged to
insure that it travels to you safely. Each speaker is protected by a
double-wall outer carton with heavy V-board corner protectors.
Molded foam end caps are used to protect the elegant cabinetry,
and a plastic liner is provided as waterproofing.

Please save this packing for future transportation. If cartons
become damaged or misplaced, new ones can be purchased from
Legacy Audio.

The first unpacking step is to fold back the flaps at the top of
the outer carton.Then carefully stand the loudspeaker on its head
and slip away the outer cardboard. Be careful not to push in on
the speaker components located on the front and rear of the
cabinet. Remove cornerboard, foam caps and outer plastic.

Speaker Placement

To allow more flexibility in seating arrangements, your Legacy
loudspeaker is designed for broad lateral coverage. Optimal
listener position is actually about 5 to 15 degrees off the axis
normal to the loudspeaker baffle.

Assuming a listener distance of about ten feet, begin by
placing the speakers approximately 7 feet apart and about 1 - 3
feet from the wall behind them. In most rooms this will afford a
speaker position at least 2 feet or more from the side walls. The
amount of recommended "toe-in" is a function of the listening
angle. As the overall listening angle increases from 40 degrees,
the amount of toe-in should increase.

Your Legacy speaker is optimized for a flat response in the far
field. Best results are obtained vertically with the listener's ear at
tweeter level with the loudspeakers gently toed in toward the
listener. Increasing the degree of toe-in is recommended when
placement next to sidewalls is required.

Placing the loudspeaker or the listener near a room boundary
will generally increase low frequency impact. If you are forced to
position one or both of your loudspeakers in a corner, be
prepared to reduce bass output via the control switches on the
rear terminal plate of each loudspeaker. You may also wish to
reduce low frequency output with your preamp's bass tone
control. If you do not have tone controls on your preamp, we
can provide you with an external custom passive attenuator
which can also be tuned for treating standing wave ("room
boom") problems.

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Designer’s Note from Bill Dudleston

F

IELD OPTIMIZED CONVERGENT SOURCE

FOCUS utilizes controlled directivity to improve image
resolution.This special driver array minimizes coloration’s due to
floor and ceiling reflections.The speaker system offers more than
400 square inches of total piston area, more than double of our
closest competitor.

The FOCUS system represents the latest advancements in
controlling acoustic radiation patterns with conventional speaker
systems.Two 7” double layered Kevlar® Hexacone drivers are
strategically separated to provide a null off-axis vertically. Floor
and ceiling are reduced by an incredible 20 decibles through the
critical midband (500 Hz-4 kHz).This reduction of early
reflections allows fragile low level ambient information found in
recordings to be heard over the listening room’s sonic signature.
Images are clearly defined and localization is consistent with
frequency.

The Kevlar Hexacone drivers used in FOCUS are among the
most expensive and elaborate ever developed.The cone material
is more than 70 times stiffer than polypropylene and paper
cones, yet weighs 30% less.An enormous motor structure and a
vented pole piece assure unsurpassed dynamics and clarity.These
special midrange drivers are mounted into rigid PVC
subenclosures, which are filled with polyester fiberfill to absorb
the backware energy.

The end result is a speaker system with literally the finest
midrange qualities in the world, next to our Whisper that is!
When one of our competitors performed a distortion analysis on
this speaker, measurements were so close to the baseline that
they thought their equipment was malfunctioning!

The treble region is handled precisely by a specially treated

1.25” woven dome tweeter with a 48 ounce magnet structure.
This dome hands off to a 4” ribbon supertweeter outfitted with a
custom designed waveguide faceplate for controlled dispersion.
This ribbon provides an ultra-linear horizontal radiation pattern
for a broad listener sweet spot and effortless shimmering highs.
Gone is the irritating “tingy” treble associated with so many
underdamped metal domes.

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