2.Owners Handbook Text
A. CONCERT SYSTEM DESCRIPTIONThe average Peugeot owner spends many hours behind the wheel, accumulating significantly more annual miles than the average American. Our owners choose Peugeot due to its world-wide reputation for comfort and excellent handling, attributes obviously very important to long distance drivers.
Now, those "extra miles" can be made even more pleasurable, thanks to the 1988 Peugeot Concert System. This unique sound system literally will transport you into the middle of a concert, all in the privacy of your own automobile. The Peugeot Concert System sound possesses a clarity and ambiance you may never have heard before, even in your home system, making it an exceptional value.
The system includes several design concepts never before used in an automobile, featuring 200 watts of power, twelve speakers, eight amplifiers in a four bi-amplifier configuration, and speaker placement and gain optimized to the vehicle interior.
Audio from the vehicle's radio is sent to four "bi-amplifier modules" located near each woofer. By utilizing bi-amplification, i.e. one amplifier for high frequencies and one for low frequencies, the speaker impedance, which varies with frequency, can be more closely matched to the amplifier, reducing intermodulation distortion. Transient distortion, even more important than total harmonic distortion, is minimized by special selection and matching of amplifier components which reduce the waveform distortion as the sound is electronically processed. The high power amplification results in reserve headroom for undistorted bursts of high volume passages.
Digital-ready speakers including graphite coated woofers are optimized to the body and interior of the vehicle, to give a balance of direct and reflected sound as is normally heard by the listener at a live concert. The gain to each speaker is balanced.
With built-in loudness and equalization, "perceived linear sound," which is the ultimate goal of "high fidelity," occurs at all volume levels, despite the non-linearity of the human ear as volume is varied.
B. OPERATING THE PEUGEOT CONCERT SYSTEM
Operation of the Peugeot Concert System has been carefully engineered to minimize the time your eyes are off the road, thereby contributing to active safety. Only a few simple adjustments are therefore necessary to allow you to realize maximum enjoyment from this system.
FADER
Optimum concert-like realism will be achieved if the front and rear speaker outputs are carefully balanced using the fader control as follows:
1. Position the seat and seat backrest for your driving comfort.
2. Place the fader at the mid-point and very slowly rotate the fader to place the sound image just slightly in front or just slightly behind you as is your preference.
This is a critical adjustment for optimum imaging, therefore readjustment of the seat will require fader readjustment.
With proper adjustment, you will feel as if the sound is all around you.
TONE CONTROLS
Most recorded music nowadays is electronically enhanced and/or mixed, therefore trying to achieve true reproduction of the "original sound" will result only in balancing the music to the recording engineer's original taste. Since your taste in music, e.g. a preference for louder bass, may differ from the recording engineer's taste, your radio's tone controls should therefore be adjusted to alter the music if necessary to your preference for the selection being played. Readjustment may also be desirable for other types of music or selections.
Bass response on normal automotive speakers falls off rapidly as the sound frequency becomes lower. The Peugeot Concert System compensates for this phenomena with built-in bass boost, therefore additional bass boost beyond the tone control mid-point may not be desirable. Let your ear be the judge!
It is recommended that you start with both tone controls at the mid-point, and make only slight adjustments. Tremendous power increases result from only small changes in tone control positions. For example, most tone controls allow a total of 12 decibel (dB) boost or a 12 dB cut. The following power increases result by these changes in the tone control:
BOOST POWER-INCREASE-REQUIRED
0dB (mid-point) 0%
+3dB 100%
+6dB 298%
+9dB 694%
+12dB (maximum boost) 1485%
Excessive tone control boost (or cut) will result in an unnatural sound and leas headroom (reserve power) to play music loudly.
VOLUME
The clarity of this system will probably result in a new-found enjoyment of your previously owned cassettes. You may find yourself listening to music at substantially higher power levels than before. Your driving experiences can thusly be greatly enhanced; after all, sitting in a "concert" is preferable to sitting in a traffic jam.
The average person is able to recognize audible distortion when it reaches or exceeds 3%. Your ear will be your best judge if the total power requirements of volume and tone control settings exceed the power of the system.
WARNING: PLAYING MUSIC AT VERY LOUD LEVELS MAY OBSCURE THE SOUNDS OF EMERGENCY AND OTHER VEHICLES AND CAUSE PERMANENT HEARING IMPAIRMENT. DISCRETION SHOULD BE USED AS REQUIRED.
We at Peugeot wish you many hours of listening pleasure with your Peugeot Concert System, and would like to thank you for your purchase of our product.
If you have any comments on the Peugeot Concert System or would like to suggest certain audio features or audio components for our future models, we would like to hear from you.
C. SPECIFICATIONS