THX Audio Setup

5.6THX AUDIO SETUP

These settings will permit you to access the various THX parameters of the SSP-60. The SSP-60 features THX ULTRA2 processing which incorporates BGC (Boundary Gain Compression) and ASA (Advanced Speaker Array). The directional characteristics of the new THX ULTRA2’s left, right, center and rear surround speakers have been revised to minimize any changes in the perceived timbral balance over the widest possible listening area. Furthermore, ULTRA2 subwoofers now have bass extension down to 20Hz, to reproduce in a much better fashion the very low frequency information increasingly found in modern digital multi-channel recordings.

THX Audio setup >Bass limiter setup

Boundary gain comp.

THX Ultra2 Sub No Boundary gain comp. -

ASA

Back speakers Together

Exit

TV Display

These displays show that you have accessed the THX Audio setup sub-menu and selected the Bass limiter setup. You can scan through the available choices by pressing the \/ and /\ buttons on the remote. When the selection you wish to adjust is highlighted press the < or > key to scroll through the choices. To memorize and Exit, place the cursor beside Exit and press the ENTER key.

Bass limiter setup

Panel Display

5.6.1Selecting “Bass limiter setup” and pressing Enter takes you to the Bass limiter setup submenu. In this submenu you can enable the Bass limiter, adjust the limiting level (the loudness which the bass signal will not be allowed to exceed), and listen to a noise signal at the selected level (to hear how loud the bass gets). These options allow you to control the amount of bass level sent to your subwoofer so that excessive bass peaks (like explosions in a movie or cannon shots in Tchaikovski’s 1812 overture) don’t damage your sub and don’t disturb the neighbors.

5.6.2THX Ultra2 Sub option allows you to enable the THX ULTRA2 Sub mode if you have a THX-certified Subwoofer installed in your system.

Boundary gain compensation (BGC) is used to counteract ‘BOOMY’ bass performance that can occur when the sub(s) are near a wall. NOTE: THX ULTRA2 Sub has to be ON if you want to enable BGC.

5.6.3ASA (Advanced Speaker Array) permits you to group the surround rear speakers together or to use them as two separate channels. When used “together,” the same signal is available from both surround rear channels. To select, simply place the cursor beside ‘Back speakers’ and use the > or < buttons on the remote to scroll to your desired choice.

Please note that depending on the signal type and the mode of processing you will have to press either the THX button or the MODE button to disable THX processing once it has been activated.

Please refer to Appendix D for details on which THX modes are applicable to each type of input signal, processing mode, and speaker configuration.