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Owner’s Manual
Sage Cinema Series Point 2 V2
Coaxial Planar Magnetic Loudspeaker
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Table of Contents
Introduction.........................................................................................3
Overview……......................................................................................4-5
Unpacking………………………………………………………….………6
Installing the Point 2 V2……...............................................................7-10
Making Connections………………………………………………………11
Care & Maintenance ...........................................................................12
North American Warranty ...................................................................13
Obtaining Service ................................................................................14
Specifications.......................................................................................15
Point 2 V2 Dimensions.........................................................................16
DOCUMENT CONVENTIONS
This document contains general safety, installation and operation instructions for the Wisdom Audio
Sage Cinema Series Point 2 V2 loudspeakers. It is important to read this document before attempting
to use this product. Pay particular attention to:
WARNING: Calls attention to a procedure, practice, condition or the like that,
if not correctly performed or adhered to, could result in injury or death.
CAUTION: Calls attention to a procedure, practice, condition or the like that, if not correctly
performed or adhered to, could result in damage to or destruction of part of or the entire
product.
Note: Calls attention to information that aids in the installation or operation of the product.
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Introduction
Congratulations on purchasing your Wisdom Audio loudspeakers. They incorporate many design features designed to give you decades of pleasure
and performance. Many of these design choices are uncommon among
loudspeaker manufacturers, and bear some explanation. See the following
section entitled “Overview” for more information.
While we expect your local Wisdom Audio dealer to take care of the setup
and calibration of the system, we still recommend that you at least brie y
review this and your other manuals in order to better understand your
system’s full capabilities.
You do not have to do anything to register your warranty for your Wisdom
Audio products. (Isn’t that a pleasant surprise?)
In the unlikely event that your loudspeakers ever require service, please
contact the dealer from whom you purchased them. Between their records
and ours, you should be all set.
However, please keep your sales receipt in a safe and easily found place.
Should you move or lose touch with your original dealer, it will serve as
your proof of purchase for warranty purposes.
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Overview
Your Sage Cinema Series Point 2 V2 loudspeakers take advantage of several critical
technologies to deliver a level of performance that has never been available in a
loudspeaker that intruded so modestly on your living space. In fact, this level of
performance has rarely been attained, regardless of the space and budget at one’s
disposal.
Since several of these technologies cannot readily be found elsewhere, we will take
the time to describe them in more detail than would be necessary for more
conventional designs.
Our planar magnetic drivers use an advanced, thin film membrane to move the air.
This film can respond instantly to the smallest detail in the signal. It has vastly less
inertia than traditional “cone & dome” drivers, so the signal is never blurred in any
way.
One of the most remarkable things about the sound of well-designed planar
magnetic speakers is their lack of thermal or dynamic compression. There are
several reasons for this:
• The lightweight diaphragm responds quickly to even the smallest signals, yet
is robust enough to handle a great deal of power.
• The voice coil is laid out at and is exposed to the air on both sides; the large
resulting surface area dissipates heat extremely quickly and efficiently.
• Since heat does not build up in the voice coil (as it does in conventional
dynamic drivers), the load seen by the amplifier does not change at high
power levels.
When you become accustomed to the sound of your new Sage Cinema Series Point
2 V2 speakers, conventional speakers sound a bit bland and lifeless. You may also
discover yourself hearing details at even modest levels on the Point 2 V2 that were
previously inaudible even at loud volumes on more conventional speakers.
The “voice coil” in the planar magnetic driver is spread out over a large, at area
that is exposed to the open air. As such, when a huge transient comes along, any
heat that is generated is immediately dissipated. This compares quite favor- ably to
other designs in which the voice coil is buried inside a massive piece of metal,
where the heat has effectively no place to go.
The excellent heat dissipation of these drivers makes them remarkably reliable.
Planar magnetic speakers can handle a great deal of power without undue stress or
audible strain. In fact, for a given size, they can handle many times the power of a
traditional dynamic driver.
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Overview (continued)
Because the conductor of a planar magnetic driver is essentially a long, thin wire, it
presents a purely resistive load to the amplifier. This is comparable to the simple
test loads that amplifier companies use when measuring their amplifiers to show
how terrific they are. As such, you can be assured that your amplifiers will sound
and work their best.
Authoritative, deep bass requires that you move a lot of air. We have chosen to
use dynamic woofers for the bass because they can provide excellent performance
at lower frequencies.
In order to get comparable bass performance from a planar magnetic design, you
would need to have a huge speaker that would be impractical in most domestic
living spaces. It simply makes more sense to use the best transducer technology in
each area of the reproduced spectrum. One of Wisdom Audio’s strengths is in
seamlessly blending these technologies — particularly important given the high
standards set by our planar magnetic drivers.
Of course, the dynamic woofers themselves must be rather extraordinary in order
to “keep up” with the planar magnetic drivers right up to the crossover frequency.
Our woofers are different because they must be in order to do their job.
Specifically, we need highly dynamic, uncompressed bass (to keep up with the
planar magnetic drivers) that does not depend on a critical amount of enclosure
volume (since these speakers are mounted in your wall, and use the space inside
the wall as their “enclosure”). These two design goals require rather extraordinary
attention to myriad details.
The motor and suspension system of these woofers therefore includes all the critical
damping required for optimal operation. (In most speakers, the woofers depend on
the air trapped inside their enclosures as an additional “spring” to help them
behave properly.) Technically, this approach is known as an “infinite baffle”
design. In practice, the volume of air behind the speaker does not have to be
infinite, of course. It just needs to be large enough to not act like an acoustic
“spring”. Recommended and minimum enclosure volumes for the speaker are
listed in the Specifications section, and repeated on the Dimensions page.
Many speakers include a mid-bass “bump” in their response to give the illusion of
going deeper in the bass than they actually do. Unfortunately, this “bump” makes
blending them seamlessly with a high quality subwoofer almost impossible.
All Sage Cinema Series speakers have been designed for optimally at response to
80 Hz, which is the most-common crossover frequency used with subwoofers.
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Unpacking & Installing the Point 2 V2
The Wisdom Audio Sage Cinema Point 2 V2 speaker is a substantial piece of
equipment. Please exercise caution when unpacking your Point 2 V2 to ensure
that you do not strain yourself from its (perhaps unexpected) weight.
CAUTION:
Do not attempt!to!lift!your!Point!2!V2!modules!while!bending!or!twisting!from!the!
waist.!!Use!your!legs!for!lifting,!not!your!back.!!!
Always stand as straight as possible and keep the Point 2 V2 close to your body to
reduce strain on your back.
We do not recommend removing the grille on your new loudspeakers except
temporarily, if you need to re-orient the planar magnetic module. The grille is an
integral part of the design; moreover, the planar magnetic film should never be
touched, as it is tensioned precisely at the factory. The grille plays an important
protective role.
After unpacking your Point 2 V2, keep all packing materials for future transport.
In the event that you need to ship your Point 2 V2, only the original, purpose-designed shipping carton is acceptable. Any other method of shipping this product
runs a significant risk of damage to the Point 2 V2 —damage that would not be
covered by the warranty. (If you lose your packaging and need to ship your
speakers, replacement packaging can be purchased from Wisdom Audio.)
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Mounting the Point 2 V2
The Sage Cinema Point 2 V2 is designed to take advantage of hidden installations
in which it will be located either behind an acoustically transparent screen or
behind stretched fabric. It may be mounted either as an in-wall or as an on-wall
speaker, or in/on the ceiling.
The flexible mounting brackets provided with the Point 2 V2 allow dozens of
possible mounting options, depending on what you choose to use as your reference
surface. The beveled back edges of the speakers also may be used as a wire chase
in situations where space is tight.
Controlled Directivity
In addition, the Point 2 V2 has controlled directivity that allows the installer to
focus the sound where it needs to go.
As shipped from Wisdom Audio, the planar magnetic driver (PMD) is oriented such
that (when the speaker is located upright) the greatest dispersion is in the horizontal
plane. It is designed to have somewhat limited vertical dispersion so as to
minimize ceiling and floor reflections that would color the sound.
However, if the design calls for horizontal mounting instead, the PMD can easily
be rotated 90° to maintain the optimum dispersion at higher frequencies.
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In addition to vertical and horizontal mounting of the PMD,
you can also angle it in three additional directions.
By removing the plate in which the PMD is mounted, you expose a new surface to
which the PMD may be mounted at a 22.5° angle. This angled surface may also be
rotated in 90° increments.
For example, think of a situation in which the Point 2 V2 is being used unusually
high on the wall. You can mount the Point 2 V2 with the woofer nearest the
ceiling, and the PMD angled down into the listening area.
Alternatively, in a 3D audio application such as Dolby ATMOS, DTS:X, and
Auro3D, some of the ceiling speakers may be located well in front of the main
listening area. The flexible, controlled directivity of the PMD once again allows the
sound to be focused where it is needed.
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The Importance of a Baffle Wall
Whether used as an in-wall or as an on-wall speaker, the Point 2 V2 is optimized
for use on a solidly constructed surface. It should not be mounted in open framing,
as this results in improper low frequency loading and many early reflection and
diffraction effects that adversely affect performance.
When used in an in-wall configuration, the framing must be 2”x 6” or deeper, as
the Point 2 V2is designed to take full advantage of the 5.5” depth found in such
framing. Ideally, each loudspeaker is “framed in” much as a window would be
framed in. This approach provides the most solid support of the loudspeaker, and
surrounding the face of the speaker with either the drywall or plywood wall surface
provides both bass reinforcement and the fewest reflection and diffraction
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Wall Construction Suggestions
Having a solidly-built wall is essential for getting the best performance out of any
wall-mounted speaker. After all, the wall may not move as much as the speaker
diaphragms, but it has vastly more surface area. If it resonates even a bit, it can and
will color the sound greatly.
Hence, some suggestions:
1. Using the supplied “ears”, screw the speakers to the surrounding framing
rather than to the wall surface (sheet rock, plywood, whatever). The
simplest way to do this is to frame in around the speaker locations so there
is only an inch or two of space between the speakers and the surrounding
studs. If you are building the walls anyway, the incremental cost of a few
extra studs is small. But it will pay off in quieter walls.
2. Use specially designed drywall, such as Quiet Rock. Quiet Rock is a
specialized form of sheet rock which has some con- strained-layer damping
built into each sheet. More information at http://www.quietrock.com
3. Consider using double-wall construction with a flexible adhesive layer. The
best-known of these products is Green Glue; more information is at
http://www.greengluecompany.com. Plan on using it between the two
layers of a double-layered wall.
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4. Always create a smooth Baffle Wall from which the sound of the speaker
can emanate with as little interference as possible. You can and probably
should plan on applying acoustic treatments to some of the room surfaces.
But make sure that the area around each of the speakers is absorptive rather
than diffusive or reflective. And do not simply leave the studs bare and wide
open, figuring that the stretched fabric will make it all better. Cut a hole in
the wall’s surface just large enough for the face of the speaker itself, and
adjust the mounting brackets so that the face of the speaker is flush with the
face of the wall.
5. If you are doing a front projection system, choose an acoustically
transparent screen material, and cover everything except the speakers
themselves with absorption on that front wall. Other parts of the room’s
décor may or may not lend themselves to being covered with fabric. But the
front wall will be largely covered, so take ad- vantage of the ease with
which you can reduce early reflections from the front wall, and back-andforth slap echoes along the length of the room.
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Making the Point 2 V2 Connections
As with any system, you should make changes to the connections only when the
power is turned off to avoid any chance of inadvertently causing a problem (such
as a short-circuit).
We recommend using heavy-gauge speaker wire, particularly when the installation
forces you to use longer wires than you might otherwise. A good rule of thumb is
to keep the “loop resistance” below 0.07 ohms.
There are many online wire gauge calculators and tables, such as
http://www.powerstream.com/Wire_Size.htm
For example, using this table you can estimate that 50 feet of AWG 8 speaker wire
(and thus 100 feet of “loop” would have a loop resistance of about 0.063Ω, which
would be fine.
Alternatively, the loop resistance can be easily measured with an inexpensive voltohm meter. Simply twist the two conductors at one end of the cable together, and
then measure the DC resistance across the two conductors at the other end of the
speaker wire. Doing this measures the total resistance going down one side and
back the other, hence the term “loop resistance.” If this figure is at or below 0.07
ohms, you are in good shape. When in doubt, more copper never hurts.
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Care & Maintenance
To remove dust from the front of your Point 2 V2, use a feather duster or a lint-free
soft cloth.
To remove stubborn dirt and fingerprints from the grille, we recommend isopropyl
alcohol and a soft cloth. Lightly dampen the cloth with alcohol first and then clean
the grille of the Point 2 V2 with the cloth. Do not use excessive amounts of
alcohol—there is no need for the cloth to be wet; merely damp is better.
Never attempt to clean the drivers themselves.
Caution!
Do not touch the surface of the planar magnetic drivers, under any circumstances.
The thin film has been carefully pre-tensioned at the factory; any subsequent
contact can only damage it.
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North American Warranty
Standard Warranty
When purchased from and installed by an authorized Wisdom Audio dealer,
Wisdom Audio loudspeakers are warranted to be free from defects in material and
workmanship under normal use for a period of ten years from the original date of
purchase.
Furthermore, the transducers (“drivers”) in your Wisdom Audio speakers are
warranted to be free from defects in material and workmanship under normal use
for a period of ten years from the original date of purchase.
Harsh Conditions Use
Wisdom Audio loudspeakers are designed for installation and operation in
environmentally controlled conditions, such as are found in normal residential
environments. When used in harsh conditions such as outdoors or in marine
applications, the warranty is three years from the original date of purchase.
During the warranty period, any Wisdom Audio products exhibiting defects in
materials and/or workmanship will be repaired or replaced, at our option, without
charge for either parts or labor, at our factory. The warranty will not apply to any
Wisdom Audio products that has been misused, abused, altered, or installed and
calibrated by anyone other than an authorized Wisdom Audio dealer.
Any Wisdom Audio product not performing satisfactorily may be returned to the
factory for evaluation. Return authorization must first be obtained by either calling
or writing the factory prior to shipping the component. The factory will pay for
return shipping charges only in the event that the component is found to be
defective as mentioned above. There are other stipulations that may apply to
shipping charges.
There is no other express warranty on Wisdom Audio products. Neither this
warranty nor any other warranty, express or implied, including any implied
warranties of merchantability or fitness, shall extend beyond the warranty period.
No responsibility is assumed for any incidental or consequential damages. Some
states do not allow limitations on how long an implied warranty lasts and other
states do not allow the exclusion or limitation of incidental or consequential
damages, so the above limitation or exclusion may not apply to you.
This warranty gives you specific legal rights, and you may also have other rights,
which vary from state to state. This warranty is applicable in the United States and
Canada only. Outside of the U.S. and Canada, please contact your local,
authorized Wisdom Audio distributor for warranty and service information.
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Obtaining Service
We take great pride in our dealers. Experience, dedication, and integrity make
these professionals ideally suited to assist with our customers’ service needs.
If your Wisdom Audio loudspeaker must be serviced, please contact your dealer.
Your dealer will then decide whether the problem can be remedied locally, or
whether to contact Wisdom Audio for further service information or parts, or to
obtain a Return Authorization. The Wisdom Audio Service Department works
closely with your dealer to solve your service needs expediently.
IMPORTANT: Return authorization must be obtained from Wisdom Audio’s
Service Department BEFORE a unit is shipped for service.
It is extremely important that information about a problem be explicit and
complete. A specific, comprehensive description of the problem helps your dealer
and the Wisdom Audio Service Department locate and repair the difficulty as
quickly as possible.
A copy of the original bill of sale will serve to verify warranty status. Please
include it with the unit when it is brought in for warranty service.
WARNING: All returned units must be packaged in their original packaging, and
the proper return authorization numbers must be marked on the outer carton for
identification. Shipping the unit in improper packaging may void the warranty, as
Wisdom Audio cannot be responsible for the resulting shipping damage.
Your dealer can order a new set of shipping materials for you if you need to ship
your loudspeaker and no longer have the original materials. There will be a charge
for this service. We strongly recommend saving all packing materials in case you
need to ship your unit some day.
If the packaging to protect the unit is, in our opinion or that of our dealer,
inadequate to protect the unit, we reserve the right to repackage it for return
shipment at the owner’s expense. Neither Wisdom Audio nor your dealer can be
responsible for shipping damage due to improper (that is, non-original) packaging.
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Specifications
All specifications are subject to change at any time, in order to improve
the product.
• Number of required amplifier channels: 1
• Frequency response: 60Hz – 20 kHz ± 2dB relative to the target curve
• Impedance: 4Ω
• Sensitivity: 87 dB/2.83V/1m
• Power handling, Continuous: 200w
• Dimensions: see appropriate dimensions drawings on next page
• Shipping weight, each: 40 lbs. (18 kg)
For more information, see your Wisdom Audio dealer, or contact:
Wisdom Audio
1572 College Parkway, Suite 164
Carson City, NV 89706
www.wisdomaudio.com
information@wisdomaudio.com
Ph: 775.887.8850
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Point 2 V2 Dimensions
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Wisdom Audio1572 College Parkway, Suite 164
Carson City, Nevada 89706 USA
Telephone: 775.887.8850
Fax: 775.887.8820
www.wisdomaudio.com
Point 2 V2OM-2.0 © 3/20/2019 Wisdom Audio, Inc. All rights reserved. Printed in U.S.A.
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