Boston Acoustics SoundWare XS Digital Cinema User Manual

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SoundWare XS Digital Cinema Technical White Paper
The SoundWare XS Digital Cinema brings together two critically acclaimed Boston product families,
TVee and SoundWare. Bostons TVee soundbar products enhance our customers TV/movie/game/music
listening experience, while making set-up and use as simple as possible. Bostons SoundWare speakers place
high performance electroacoustic components in a compact and versatile multi-faceted shape. Boston com-
bines these virtues – sound, shape, and simplicity – in the SoundWare XS Digital Cinema.
SoundWare XS Digital Cinema includes two SoundWare XS satellite speakers, designed to be placed near
the television, on a shelf or table, or on the wall (pivoting brackets are included). The tiny subwoofer box is
both the connection center for inputs and contains digital signal processing circuitry and amplifiers for the
system – typically the subwoofer will be placed near the furniture holding the television. A small Control
Pod contains indicator lights and the infrared remote sensor – this Control Pod is to be placed in a promi-
nent position near the TV, and acts as the status indicator and control point for the system.
Every television on the market is a tremendously capable control center – with multiple audio/video
inputs, and in many cases sources like Netflix and Pandora radio built in. These televisions – plus a Blu-ray
and cable/satellite box – are just about everything a person could want for a living room entertainment
system. Due to cost squeezing (to be price competitive) and size squeezing (to make them super thin),
televisions typically have crummy sound. Bostons new SoundWare XS Digital Cinema hooks up to the
audio output (most often, by one digital optical cable, supplied) and plays exactly what the television
is showing – except with dramatically better sound.
SoundWare XS Digital Cinema learns the televisions remote control commands,
so the owner doesn’t have to add yet another remote to the coffee table.
Since the same television (or cable box/TiVo/satellite box) remote now works
Digital Cinema, operating the system becomes transparent and second nature –
no change from just operating the television. And, a small credit card-sized remote
is included for setting up the system and programming in the users remote.
Even after the system is programmed to work from the owners own remote,
the supplied remote will still work as a backup.
Optical Digital Input and Dolby Digital Decoding
Most of televisions (larger than 26”) on the market now routinely include an optical digital output, a small
square jack on the rear panel that conveys a digital signal by red light, through an optical digital cable.
This optical digital connection is also sometimes called Toslink – it’s the same thing. This is a version of
the Sony/Philips Digital Interconnect Format (S/PDIF), an industry standard. The televisions optical output
sends out whatever program is coming into the television, or playing on its internal digital TV tuner, in the
form of either a Dolby Digital signal or a plain digital signal, sometimes called a PCM (pulse code modula-
tion) signal. Since the signal can be either Dolby or PCM, it is very important for the Digital Cinema to be
able to play both types of audio signal.
In sending out audio to the Digital Cinema, the television also performs another useful function – it handles
all the different audio types coming from sources such as Blu-ray. Many Blu-ray discs include soundtracks
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Summary of Contents

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© 2012 Boston Acoustics, Inc. All rights reserved.1SoundWare XS Digital Cinema Technical White PaperThe SoundWare XS Digital Cinema brings together tw

Page 2 - RIGHT SURROUND CHANNEL

© 2012 Boston Acoustics, Inc. All rights reserved.2encoded with DTS multichannel sound – a theater sound format that competes with Dolby. Hooked up to

Page 3 - Amplification and Speakers

© 2012 Boston Acoustics, Inc. All rights reserved.3DOVS provides an additional valuable feature – a Music playback mode. Music Mode also makes use of

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© 2012 Boston Acoustics, Inc. All rights reserved.4Each satellite’s centrally mounted tweeter is a ½” (12mm) Mylar dome. The central location not only

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© 2012 Boston Acoustics, Inc. All rights reserved.5Features a glance… SoundWare XS Digital CinemaOptical digital input √Dolby Digital 5.1 decodi

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© 2012 Boston Acoustics, Inc. All rights reserved.6Where should I place my subwoofer?>>Place the sub near the furniture or cabinet holding the t

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