Tannoy Cinema Highline 300 Brochure

OWNER’S MANUAL

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION 3

SATELLITE
What’s in the box? 4
How to wall mount 5

STAND MOUNT
What's in the box? 8
How to stand mount 9

CENTRE CHANNEL
What’s in the box? 10
How to wall mount 11

TOWER
What’s in the box? 13
How to connect 14

ROOM SET UP 15

CONNECT TO RECEIVER 16

SPECIFICATIONS 17

WARRANTY

This equipment has been produced and tested with care and precision. All Tannoy speaker
systems are built to give first class service and carry a 5-year warranty. Active subwoofers
carry a 1-year warranty.

If the equipment proves to be defective within this period for any reason other than
accident, misuse, unauthorised modification or fair wear and tear, Tannoy will repair any
such defect or, at our option, replace it without charge for parts, labour or return carriage.
This warranty is given in addition to the customer's statutory rights. If you suspect a
problem with your loudspeakers please contact your local Tannoy dealer who will be able
to advise on appropriate action.

IMPORTANT NOTES

Please ensure no bare wire touches the metal cabinet.

Please do not attempt to remove the grilles from the products as they are designed
not to be removed. The product has been voiced with the grilles on.

No maintenance of this product is required. Use a dry, lint free cloth to clean the cabinet
if required

No loudspeaker cables are supplied with the Arena Highline speakers.

We would recommend figure of eight speaker cables with 2 x 1.5mm
sectional area.

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INTRODUCTION

Thank you for selecting Tannoy loudspeakers developed in the UK by our dedicated team
of design engineers. The Tannoy Arena Highline 300™ speakers are designed to blend
perfectly into your room and provide a sound stage which is at least as good as you
would hear in a commercial movie theatre, but in the comfort of your own home. You
have a choice of speakers, mounting brackets and floor-stands to help you to get the
very best sound quality and appearance. Tannoy Professional Studio Monitor speakers
are used by mixing engineers, producers and directors in the creation and production
of many movie soundtracks. Tannoy Arena Highline 300™ home cinema speakers are
engineered with the same technology, design and manufacturing principles as Tannoy
Studio Monitors to create realistic special effects with clear crisp dialogue capability. The
carefully designed appearance of Tannoy Arena Highline 300™ system components
allows discreet placement of the speakers giving the movie screen pride of place as the
centre of the visual movie action.

TANNOY WIDEBAND™

Tannoy has incorporated its own WideBand™ technology into the design of all Arena
Highline loudspeakers. Not only does this exceptional in-house technology resolve fine
detail of high frequency information but it also effectively enhances the listening experience
throughout the whole frequency range. The WideBand™ high frequency system creates
an increased immediacy, airiness and impact making music sound more natural and true
to life. Music contains transient information and rich harmonics beyond the range of
human hearing for pure tones. Even bass notes have leading edge transients reaching
30kHz. Operating between the roll-off point of the exclusive Tannoy mid-bass driver unit
and 51kHz, the Tannoy WideBand™ high frequency unit will accurately reproduce the
leading edge of individual notes allowing the listener to experience the entire bandwidth
information of instruments. In addition, the extension of the frequency response, by fully
two octaves, corrects time and phase response within the bandwidth of normal human
hearing. Taking these acoustical phase anomalies beyond the audible range adds realism
to the soundstage through improvements in imaging and the placement of instrumentation
and movie special effects.

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SATELLITE
What’s in the box?

1 x Satellite speaker

1 x Long wall bracket

1 x Short bracket with pre-fitted cap

1 x Short bracket without pre-fitted cap

1 x Bracket cap

4 x 8mm Silver hex socket fixing screw + lock washers

1 x 5mm black cap head fixing screw + spring washer

1 x Ball nosed Allen key

Required but not included:

Sufficient cable for your requirements

Countersunk fixing screws suitable for your wall type

Screwdriver for above fixing screws

Spirit level

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SATELLITE
How to wall mount

WARNING: It is your responsibility to ensure that the bracket to wall fixing screws or bolts and

the walls themselves are strong enough to support the weight of the speaker – refer to the speaker
weight specifications supplied in this manual. Particular care is needed when fixing to hollow or
cavity walls - ‘'stud’' walls. Use only professionally recommended fixing devices which will spread
the load of the brackets and fixing screws over an area of the wall surface when mounting to cavity
walls. Pay particular attention to the possibility of electrical cables and gas or water pipes which
may be present in the wall cavity or buried in the wall surface. Use a special cable or metal proximity
locator to locate these obstacles if in any doubt.

Before wall mounting the bracket, ensure sufficient clearance to hook the speaker
onto bracket (approx half speaker length above bracket).

Use a spirit level to ensure the bracket is fitted level.

Mount the wall bracket on the wall with a suitable fixing
(not supplied – see warning note above)

Ensuring cap is uppermost, using 8mm screws and washers provided, attach bracket
with pre-fitted cap to top two fixing points on speaker.

Attach bracket without pre-fitted cap to bottom two fixing points using 8mm screws and
washers provided.

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SATELLITE
How to wall mount - continued

Cut the speaker wire so that the (+) side is slightly longer than the (-) side and
feed the speaker wire through spare bracket cap.

Important Note:

It is essential that the speakers are wired correctly at this stage. The (-) wire
should have a solid black line, or similar, marked along it.

Screw (+) wire into red terminal and screw (-) wire into black terminal.

Offer speaker up to wall bracket half way above it, engage speaker and slide down

Ensure cap is fully engaged with wall bracket

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