Overview
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act6 is composed of high-tech components—satellites, subwoofer and center channel—that bring home theater to a new level. Movies, games or music, you won’t believe the incredible sound these compact speakers make.
- Compact speakers and subwoofer look great with contemporary flat panels
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Aluminum finish cabinets fit anywhere
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Amazing deep bass from 8-inch subwoofer makes explosions, effects roar
The lowdown
act6—high technology for home theater. It’s designed to fill your room with big effects, clear dialogue and powerful music: hyperbolic aluminum dome tweeters, Convergent Source Modules and a Ribbed Elliptical Surround™ on the subwoofer. Keyhole slots, threaded inserts and rubber bumpers let you choose how and where to place your speakers.
Bragging rights
act6 components were developed with Energy’s principles in mind:
- Flat On-Axis Frequency Response with Wide Bandwidth: Speakers should reproduce the entire audio range in a uniform manner. By ensuring that no one frequency dominates any other, Energy ensures that every note is the way it was intended to be—and the sound as natural as possible.
- Wide and Constant Dispersion: Sound at all frequencies radiating from the speaker should be in an even pattern, in all directions throughout the room.
- Low Distortion and Resonance: No speaker system is distortion- or resonance-free, but Energy has achieved a significantly lower distortion level, a clearly audible improvement.
The act6 home theater system offers terrific performance and great features:
The act6 small, high style speakers are designed to work anywhere, without occupying vital floor space. The slim aluminum cabinet is extremely rigid, while maintaining internal volume. This unique shape lends the act6 to be wall or corner mounted, without protruding into the listening room.
The act6 features Energy’s newest driver technology, using a 3.5-inch woofer with our patented Ribbed Elliptical Surround, which eliminates distortion and increases efficiency. The act6 satellites use our .75-inch aluminum dome tweeter, which is individually chambered—technology carried over from our flagship series. With the included mounting brackets, installing the act6 satellites is a snap. This system even includes an 8-inch 80 W RMS, 300 W continuous subwoofer, which blends perfectly with the act6 satellites to create a complete home theater speaker system. We also offer individual act6 satellites in case you want to expand to 6.1 or even 7.1! Who says good sound can’t look good?
Maximum performance tips:
The center channel speaker needs to be centrally located so that the dialogue appears to be coming from the center of the screen. It needs to be above or below the monitor, as closely to it as possible. If you’re using a rear projection television, the most likely option is to place it above the screen. If you have a front projection system, you have choices—stand mounting, or placement on furniture, for example. It is important, though, to place the speaker so that its front edge is even with the edge of the shelf or stand supporting it. Unwanted diffraction occurs when the center channel is too far back into a cabinet or other surface with edges that could impede sound dispersion.
For left or right front channels, the distance between the speakers should be 6-8 feet at minimum for the best stereo imaging. The optimum room shape is rectangular, with the speakers along one of the shorter walls, facing the opposite side. If possible, do not place speakers against a wall or at rear of a bookshelf; corner placement is usually the worst option. Try to keep the speakers—especially rear vented models—at least two feet from the surface behind it, unless you use the vent plug. For best results mounting on a rear wall, position the speakers so they flank the main listening area and point toward the front of the room. They should be raised to a height of approximately six feet and should ideally have a space of six feet between them.
The three most common subwoofer locations include corners (which can result in boomy or exaggerated low frequency response), placement along a wall, away from the corner (producing moderate bass performance with increased fidelity over corner placement), or beside a front speaker (creating a better blend with the front speaker, but sacrificing overall volume). Experimentation with subwoofer placement is highly encouraged; slight adjustments can create big differences in sound reproduction. To test subwoofer placement, install it temporarily in your main listening position and walk around the listening room while playing a familiar piece of music until you find the best sounding position.