Bose Acoustimass 6 Series III home entertainment speaker system Sold from 2002 User Manual

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SAFETY INFORMATION
Please read this owner’s guide
Please take the time to follow this owner’s guide carefully. It will help you set up and operate your system properly, 
and enjoy all of its advanced features. Please save your owner’s guide for future reference.
WARNING: 
To reduce the risk of fire or electric shock, do not expose the Acoustimass® module to rain or moisture.
CAUTION: 
To prevent electric shock, match wide blade of plug to wide slot, insert fully.
These CAUTION...

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SETTING UP4
Before you begin   . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  4
Unpacking the carton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  4
Placing your speakers to achieve realistic home theater sound  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....

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SETTING UP
Before you begin
We appreciate your choice of the Bose® Acoustimass® 6 Series III or Acoustimass 10 
Series IV home entertainment speaker system. 
The Acoustimass 6 features five small cube  speakers, while the Acoustimass 10 system 
features four cube speaker arrays and a center front speaker. These speakers, together with 
the Acoustimass module, reproduce the full spec trum of multi-channel digital programming 
for a powerful and realistic home theater...

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Placing your speakers to achi eve realistic home theater sound
Keep these guidelines in mind when choosing a location for each speaker:
 The Acoustimass
® module should be at least 2 feet (.6 m) from your TV set to prevent 
interference.
 All of the small speakers are magnetically shielded to prevent interference with a TV picture.
 Select a stable and level surface for each of the small speakers.  Vibration can cause them to move, particularly on smooth surfaces...

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Front left and right speakers
The goal for these is to create a sound image wider than the screen that seems natural to 
viewers sitting anywhere in the room. 
• Place these two front speakers on either side of your TV.
• Keep them from 6 feet (2 m) to 15 feet (5 m) apart (as shown in Figure 2 on page 5). 
Center speaker
Sound from the center speaker should seem to come from within the picture to give the most 
realistic performance of on-screen action and dialogue....

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Powered Acoustimass® module
Acoustimass® speaker technology makes it difficult to locate the source of low-frequency 
sound from this module. So feel free to hide it from view, and:
• Locate the module at the same end of the room as the TV screen. 
• Keep the module at least 2 feet (.6 m) from your TV set to prevent interference.
• To increase bass effects, turn the front opening toward a wall; turn it away from the wall to 
decrease bass effects.
• Keep both the...

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2. Use the supplied 50-ft (15.2 m) speaker cables for the speakers at the rear of your room 
(Figure 5).
Insert them into the jacks on the module as follows:
• RR goes into the jack labeled Right Rear.
• LR goes into the jack labeled Left Rear.
3. At the other end of each cable, insert the red-collared (+) wire into the red (+) terminal on 
one speaker. Insert the other wire into the other terminal (Figure 5).
Notice a label on each red-collared wire that matches it...

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Connecting the Acoustimass® module to the receiver 
The system input cable is 20 feet (6.1 m) long and connects to your surround receiver. Unlike 
the speaker cables, this input cable has a multi-pin connector that inserts into the Audio Input 
jack on the module (Figure 6).
Figure 6
System input cable 
connectionModule input jack
System input 
cable connector
At the other end of the system input cable, multiple wire pairs “unzip” for easy reach and 
insertion into...

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Figure 8
Acoustimass® module to 
receiver connections
Thumbscrews
Home theater 
receivers Acoustimass
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module
LFE connector with 
cover removed
Checking the connections
Before plugging in the Acoustimass module, check all connections from the receiver to the 
the module and the module to the small speakers (Figure 8).
• Make sure all cube speaker arrays are connected to the proper terminals according to their 
position in your room. 
• Check to be sure all wires...