Onkyo DR-815 Enjoying Surround Sound, Setting Distance of Speakers, Speaker Level Calibration

Enjoying Surround Sound—Continued

Setting Distance of Speakers

Set the distance from the listening position to the speak- ers.

With the distance set, the DVD receiver can keep con- stant the time to deliver the sound from each speaker to the listening position, thus providing more comfortable sound environment for movies and music. The settings are stored even when the DVD receiver is in the Standby mode.

7	Press to select “2.Distance,”
	and then press ENTER.

Press DISPLAY to switch between feet and meters.

8	Select a speaker using	/ , and
	set a distance using	/ .

You need to set the distance from the lis- tening position to the L/R front speakers. You can set up to 9.0 m (30 ft) by an increment of 0.3 m (1 ft).

The Center and Subwoofer distances can be set between 1.5 m (5 ft) more or less than the Front distance.

The Surround speakers' distances can be set up to 1.5 m (5 ft) more and 4.5 m (15 ft) less than the Front distance.

9	Press RETURN.
	Returns to the display shown in step 7.
	Then go to “Speaker Level Calibration”.

Speaker Level Calibration

For adjusting the sound balance, set the sound level for each speaker so that you may hear an equivalent sound volume of the test tone from each speaker.

10	Press to select “3.Level Cal,”
	and then press ENTER.

You may hear the burst of noise for the test tone from the left front speaker.

11	Select a speaker using / , and
	set volume using / .

You can adjust the tone within a range between –12 dB and +12 dB (–15 dB to +12 dB for the subwoofer).

The test tone will be output according to the number of the channels you set for the speakers in the previous page.

•If you set “No” for a subwoofer, the test tone will not be output from it.

Note:

If you have set the sound level greater than as usual, return it by using VOL- UME– (minus).

12	Press RETURN.
	Returns to the display shown in step 10.
	To exit the speaker setting, press it once again.
	You can also exit the setting by pressing
	“RCV SETUP”.

Adjusting Speakers with TEST TONE

You can take a shortcut for step 10 to 12 by following the direct steps below.

1	Press TEST TONE.
	Adjust the sound level with VOLUME +/–,
	if necessary.

2	Switch over the speaker with CH
	SEL, and then adjust the test tone
	with / .
	The test tone will be switched over to the
	next speaker in 2 seconds, even if you do
	not press CH SEL.
3	Press TEST TONE.
	That exits the setting.

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