Waves MiniWoofer User Manual

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Home MiniWoofer

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User’s Guide

The Home MiniWoofer is an

accessory subwoofer system

for stereo televisions and shelf

systems. It provides a high

quality subwoofer solution for

smaller rooms in apartments,

bedrooms and offices where a

complete home theater system

is inconvenient. The Home

MiniWoofer is easier to install,

can easily be set up

unobtrusively on a shelf, and

requires no additional user controls after set-up.

The Home MiniWoofer lets you hear deep, natural and undistorted bass response to about

40Hz similar to large home theater subwoofers. It is against the Laws of Physics to create

40Hz bass from such a small, light weight and low power product, but the Home

MiniWoofer lets you hear bass frequencies down to 40Hz by using an acoustic illusion

based on the psychoacoustic Phenomenon of the Missing Fundamental. This is

conceptually similar to perceiving a full color spectrum from only red, green and blue pixels

on your television display,

Waves, the world leader is signal processing tools to audio professionals has extensively

researched how to optimize this process and patented its MaxxBass® psychoacoustic

bass extension. This technology has been used in top music recordings for many years

and now it available in consumer electronics.

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The Home MiniWoofer is designed to be an accessory subwoofer for existing stereo audio
systems in televisions and shelf systems. It is easy to install with one or two RCA cables.
Once set up, you do not need to change any settings or have additional remote controls. It
automatically turns on and off when an audio signal is detected.

The Home MiniWoofer product is less sensitive to room modes than a traditional
subwoofer. Subwoofers are generally recommended to be placed on the floor in the
corner of a room, and ideally it should be positioned to minimized room modes.

Since the Home MiniWoofer uses psychoacoustic bass, it can be positioned similar to a
traditional speaker. It is generally recommended to be placed on a shelf near the TV or
shelf system. It is not recommended to place the Home MiniWoofer directly on top of CRT
TVs since the power speaker magnet is not shielded.

Home MiniWoofer Connection Options

The Home MiniWoofer can be used in several different configurations.

1) Subwoofer Input Connection

The Home MiniWoofer includes a Subwoofer input on a single line-level RCA connector.
This is the simpliest connection method for the Home MiniWoofer and generally the best
performing since the output volume will scale more consistently with the volume control of
the existing satellite speakers in the television or shelf system.

Connect a single cable from the subwoofer output of your existing system to the sub input
of the Home MiniWoofer. This is shown in the diagram below for a typical shelf audio
system.

Subwoofer Input Connection Diagram

Shelf System

CD, radio, cassette,
amps & 2 speakers

Right

Speaker

Left

Speaker

Aux Inputs Right Left

Subwoofer Output

One RCA cable subwoofer Output to MiniWoofer subwoofer In

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The Sub input is a direct subwoofer input without any low pass filtering. Use this input if
your television or shelf audio system has a subwoofer output, which provides this
functionality.

Plug in the external power supply to an AC outlet and to the rear of the MiniWoofer labeled
15VDC. Proceed to the Settings section for one time set-up of controls on the rear of the
system.

2) Left and Right Input Connections

The Left/Right Input Connections should be used with stereo televisions that do not
provide line-level subwoofer outputs.

The Home MiniWoofer provides Left and Right RCA connectors for line-level (2Vrms)
input, which are common on DVDs, VCRs and cable/satellite set-tops boxes. Simply
connect both Left and Right line-level outputs from these audio source components using
two RCA “Y” cables (not provided) connected to the both the Home MiniWoofer and your
television.

Left/Right Input Connections with Stereo Television

Audio Source

- DVD or VCR

- Cable or satellite set-top

Stereo

Television

Right Left Video

Right Left Video

Two “Y” RCA cables
Left and Right inputs