Scansonic S4,S5 Owner's Manual

H I F I L O U D S P E A K E R S

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OWNER’S MANUAL
ILLUSTRATIONS
LIMITED WARRANTY

S4

H I F I L O U D S P E A K E R S

Introduction

Thank you for choosing Scansonic loudspeakers, we hope they
will bring you many years of enjoyment.

Please read this manual fully before unpacking and installing
the product.

Carton contents

We have during production and packing carefully checked and
inspected these loudspeakers.

After unpacking please check for any damage from transport.
We recommend that you keep the original cartonbox and
packing material for any future shipping.

In the cartonbox you will find:

1 Bracket for flat wall mounting
1 Bracket for 15° angle wall mounting
8 Self-adhesive rubber pads.

Loudspeaker installation

The speakers are best used with the tweeters approximately
at ear level when seated. Brackets are enclosed and wall
mounting is optional and offers opportunity for optimising
the sound through selecting the height and angle of the
loudspeaker position.

If you place the loudspeakers on a shelf or furniture unit, the
enclosed adhesive pads may be attached under the cabinet
and will protect from unwanted resonances and from scratches.

Loudspeaker positioning

Variations in placement of your loudspeakers can produce
dramatic differences in the way music sounds. No listening
rooms are the same and therefore we encourage you to spend
some time experimenting with which placements work best in
your listening room. Trust your ears and be willing to experiment
freely. You can start with our basic recommendations.

Please try to ensure that the rooms surroundings of each
loudspeaker left and right are similar in acoustic character.
For example, if one loudspeaker is placed on bare walls while
the other is placed close to soft furnitures and curtains, both
the overall sound quality and the stereo image are likely to be
compromised.

Because bookshelves are usually located close to the wall,
placement on bookshelves will often provide a richer, more
full-bodied sound. This type of placement is very common and
because our Scansonic S4 design are acoustic suspension
designs (closed box) they are the most well suited type of

loudspeakers for it.
To begin with, the speakers should be positioned between

1.5m and 3m apart at two corners of an equilateral triangle
completed by the listening area at the third corner. See fig. 1
The loudspeakers should ideally be at least 0,5 metre away
from any side walls.

Home Theatre Systems

Scansonic S4 can be used as front channels in a surround
sound home theatre system.

Positioning the front loudspeakers within approximately 1metre
of the sides of your TV will create the best sound image in scale
with the visual image. The loudspeakers’ height should ideally
be between the centre and top of the screen.

If Scansonic S4 are to be used for reproducing the surround
channels in a multi channel home theatre system, we suggest
you place them as illustrated in Figures 2 to 4 depending on the
number of channels.

Magnetic interference

Scansonic S4 tweeter and woofer drive units are magnetically
shielded ensuring that the magnetic field outside the cabinet,
except the front, is too low to cause distortion of the TV picture,
and you can place the loudspeakers as close to the TV screen
as possible without causing visual interference or electro­magnetic interference with the TV.

Because of the higher magnetic field in front of the
loudspeakers, all magnetically sensitive articles (audio and
video tapes, computer discs etc) should be kept at least 0,3
metre away from the front of the loudspeaker.

Connecting your loudspeakers

We recommend that you read the manual of your amplifier or
av-receiver carefully before connecting your loudspeakers.

Please switch off all equipment when connecting your
loudspeakers.
The binding posts on the terminal accepts wire up to Ø 4mm or
cables with bananaplugs.

Make sure that positive terminal binding posts on the speaker
(marked + and coloured red) are connected to the positive
output terminal binding posts on the amplifier and that the
negative terminals on the speaker (marked – and coloured
black) are connected to the negative output terminal on the
amplifier. See fig 5.

You are now ready to enjoy your Scansonic S4 loudspeakers...!

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