Enjoying Gelati

Welcome to a colourful new world of music. Gelati bookshelf speakers sound just as delicious as they look. Take good care of them, ideally keeping them out of direct sunlight if you can and they’ll reward you with wonderful-sounding music for decades ahead.

Setting up your speakers

Setup is relatively easy, and should take around 10 to 15 minutes.

• Once you have your speakers out of the box, you’ll want to get them connected to an amplifier. First, make sure your amplifier is turned off for the setup process.

• If you have regular speaker cable, you’ll want to strip away some of the shielding so that the copper wires underneath are exposed. You’ll need around three centimetres of exposed wire at both ends of both lengths of cable. Some cable is pre-stripped, but if yours isn’t you can cut the shielding away with a Stanley knife, just take care if doing so.

• Once you’ve prepped your speaker cable, just unscrew the red and black terminal caps at the back of the Gelati and at the back of your amplifier. You can then thread the exposed wires through the small holes that run vertically through the terminal binding posts, ensuring that the lengths of cable are running to and from matching coloured terminals on the back of the speakers and the amplifier. If you’re not sure which end is running to which, your speaker cable should have a small red line running the length of one side of the shielding, so use that on the red terminal on both ends.

• Re-tighten the terminal caps so that they’re securely (but not too tightly) screwed back in place.

• If you have banana plug terminations (4mm cylindrical metal plugs rather than just cable) at the ends of your speaker cable, you can plug them straight into the back of the terminals at the rear of your Gelati speakers and amplifier.

Get your Gelati singing

• Once you’ve got your music playing, it’s worth taking some time to optimise your sound. To hear Gelati at their very best, we’d suggest positioning the speakers so that they’re an equal distance from your listening position with at least 1.5m between the two speakers, if you have the space.

• If you’re finding you could use a little more low-end, then having the rear of the speakers closer to a wall might help. Conversely, if the low end could do with some toning down, giving them a bit of room to breathe away from walls might be just the trick.

• Having the tweeters (the smaller of the two drivers) positioned at around ear level is also important to coaxing the very best sound from them. This might seem quite finicky, but the sonic benefits are well worth the effort!