Using the auto-equalizer

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!The center speaker largely determines the sound image and getting the balance right isn’t easy. We recommend reproducing a 2- ch. audio (a CD for example) and getting the balance right among the speakers ex- cept for the center, and then reproducing a 5.1-ch. audio (Dolby Digital or DTS) and ad- justing the center speaker output to the balance you have already got among the other speakers.

1Touch Parametric EQ.

2Touch a or b to select the desired item. Each time you touch aor b selects the item in the following order:

Equalizer (equalizer)—SP-Select (speakers)— Band (bands)—Frequency (center frequency)

—Level (equalizer level)—Q. Factor (Q factor)

—500Hz—630Hz—800Hz—1kHz—1.25kHz

—1.6kHz—2kHz—2.5kHz—3.15kHz—4kHz

—5kHz—6.3kHz—8kHz—10kHz—12.5kHz

7Touch b and then touch c or d to ad- just the equalizer level.

Each time you touch cor d it increases or de- creases the equalizer level. +12 to -12 is dis- played as the level is increased or decreased.

8Touch b and then touch c or d to se- lect the desired Q factor.

Each time you touch cor d switches between the following Q factor:

Narrow (narrow)—Wide (wide)

#You can adjust parameters for each band of the other speakers in the same way.

Note

3 Touch d to select the equalizer.

Touch d repeatedly to switch between the fol- lowing equalizers: Powerful—Natural—Vocal—Flat—Custom1

—Custom2—Super Bass

4Touch b and then touch c or d to se- lect the speaker to be adjusted.

Touch c or d until the desired speaker ap- pears in the display.

Rear (rear speakers)—Center (center speaker)

—Front (front speakers)

# You cannot select speakers whose size is set to Off. (Refer to Setting the speaker setting on page 86.)

You can select a center frequency for each band. You can change the center frequency in 1/3-oc- tave steps, but you cannot select frequencies that have intervals shorter than 1 octave among the center frequencies of the three bands.

The auto-equalizer is the equalizer curve cre- ated by auto TA and EQ (refer to Auto TA and EQ (auto-time alignment and auto-equalizing) on this page).

You can turn the auto-equalizer on or off.

1 Touch Auto EQ.

#You cannot use this function if auto TA and

5Touch b and then touch c or d to se- lect the equalizer band to be adjusted. Each time you touch cor d selects equalizer bands in the following order:

Low (low)—Mid (mid)—High (high)

EQ has not been carried out.

2Touch d to turn the auto-equalizer on.

# To turn auto-equalizer off, touch c.

6Touch b and then touch c or d to se- lect the center frequency of selected band. Touch c or d until the desired frequency ap- pears in the display. 40Hz—50Hz—63Hz—80Hz—100Hz—125Hz

—160Hz—200Hz—250Hz—315Hz—400Hz

Auto TA and EQ (auto-time alignment and auto-equalizing)

The auto-time alignment is automatically ad- justed for the distance between each speaker and the listening position.

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