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Loud Speaker Systems

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Main Speakers – Also

designed to serve as your con­ventional full-range stereo
speakers for audio-only performances,
these create the basic stereo image at
the front of your room. Alternatively,
you can use small satellite speakers,
along with a subwoofer, providing a
full spectrum of sound from an easy-to­conceal speaker system.

Surround or Effects Speakers –

Typically positioned toward the back of
your room, these play a key supporting
role in your home theater system. They
generate the rear-channel sounds that
make going to a movie theater a
three-dimensional sonic experience.
More elaborate systems may also add
effects speakers at the front of the
room for music DSP and enhanced
movie applications.

Subwoofer – It is

specially designed to
deliver thundering
lows ordinary
speakers can’t
touch – whether
it shares a signal
with other
speakers, or gets
its own dedicated
bass channel from
Dolby Digital Surround
(AC-3) and our Cinema DSP. It
generally comes with its own amplifier.
Because deep bass fills a room from all
directions, you can put this speaker
almost anywhere in your home theater.

Center Channel Speaker – With

Dolby Pro Logic, Dolby Digital Surround or
our Cinema DSP, this speaker uses special
information encoded on the soundtrack
to fill in the sonic gap between your two
main speakers. So the sounds of dialogue
and effects that happen on your screen
come from precisely that direction.

The proprietary
Yamaha Tri-Field
Processing tech­nology used in
our Cinema DSP
lets you experi­ence the acoustic
spaciousness of a
large theater,
while hearing
every creak, rum­ble, voice and
musical note from
exactly where the
director intended.

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Effect

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•Rear
Effect

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You can start with
pairs of main and
surround speak­ers, then add to
your home the­ater with a center
channel speaker
and subwoofer
for even more
impressive sound.

Yamaha technology can make
a living room sound like a
20,000 sq. ft. movie palace.

When it comes to bringing home the real drama of a movie,
seeing alone isn’t believing. It takes sound as impressive as your
picture to put you right in the middle of the action. And that takes
both sophisticated electronics and superior speaker technology.
Yamaha has years of experience at both.

Our components employ the most advanced surround-sound
processing technology available today.And decades of Yamaha
experience in sound field measuring and processing, custom inte­grated circuit design and audio microchip fabrication go even
further – taking you where no home theater system has gone before.

Stepping up to the superior sound of home theater means
expanding beyond the basic two-speaker set-up of a conventional
stereo system. Which speakers to buy – and how many – depends
on the kind of surround sound technology your A/V receiver or
signal processor provides.

On the following pages, you’ll find a complete family of Yamaha
speakers. They’re engineered with the expertise we’ve gained
through decades as one of the world’s leading manufacturers of
fine musical instruments.And they’re designed to work together as
a system to let you hear all the performance your components were
designed to deliver.

As the room illustrated on the following page shows, the
speakers you’ll need to create your own home theater fall into
several basic categories.

Dolby

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Pro Logic®– A big step beyond two-speaker stereo.

One additional channel feeds two rear effects speakers, while
another serves a center channel speaker. Dolby Pro Logic positions
dialogue and effects around the room, so they closely match the
action on screen.

Cinema DSP – The ultimate in home theater sound reproduc-

tion. Yamaha’s exclusive Cinema DSP signal processing technology
applies the vast library of sound field data we’ve amassed creating
products for audio professionals, both on the stage and in the studio.
When integrated with Dolby Digital Surround (AC-3) and Tri-Field
Processing, Cinema DSP maintains the depth, openness and realism
the director envisioned. While also preserving the directional
relationships of every sound.

Dolby Digital Surround (AC-3) – Positions sounds with even

greater precision. Separate, full-bandwidth channels serve each of
your rear speakers, and low-bass signals are routed to a dedicated
subwoofer. Front left, right and center channels complete the picture,
surrounding you with an incredibly accurate sound image.

Tri-Field Processing – It’s the secret to making a small room

sound like a huge theater. And only Yamaha has it. Proprietary digital
signal processing technology expands the apparent dimensions of
your sound field, creating the unmistakable sensation of a first-run
theater’s acoustic spaciousness.

That’s why you need a speaker
system that covers all the angles.

Designed expressly for home theater applications,
these wall mountable/shelf speakers add depth and
dimension to your listening pleasure.They feature
Bass Reflex design, 4” full-range drivers able to
handle 50 watts of power – more than ample
for all but the most extreme listening situations.

Yamaha’s NS-AW1 is Yamaha’s first speaker designed
for use outdoors.The two-way acoustic suspension design
system uses a weather resistant, sealed enclosure made
of UV-stable polypropylene with an aluminum grille.
A 5” high compliance glass filled cloth woofer/midrange
delivers solid reproduction of the lower and middle
frequencies, while the upper end of the frequency
range is handled by Yamaha’s

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/2” pure titanium dome
tweeter. The speaker is magnetically shielded, so it can
be placed on a TV or video monitor without degrading
the picture via stray magnetic fields.To assure flexibility,
durability, and the best electrical connection possible,
Yamaha has equipped the NS-AW1 with gold-plated
five-way binding posts.The five-way binding posts can
accept banana plugs and variety of other connectors,
as well as speaker wire.The gold plating assures that
once the connection is physically made, the electrical
connection is physically made, the electrical connection
is not degraded by weather or other conditions. For
easy mounting both inside and outdoors, the NS-AW1
come with mounting brackets. The NS-AW1 features
a black micro-pebble finish. The identical speaker in
white is designated NS-AW1W.

The Sound Of True Home Theater Looks Like This

NS-AW1 and NS-AW1W
All-Weather Speaker

NS-E103 — Surround
Effects Speaker