Pioneer VSX1017TXV System Setup menu, Fine Speaker Distance, Professional Acoustic Calibration EQ

The System Setup menu 07

•For comparison purposes, the reference speaker will change depending on which speaker you select.

•If you want to go back and adjust a channel, simply

use to select it.

4When you're finished, press RETURN. You return to the Manual MCACC setup menu.

Listen to the reference speaker and use it to measure the target channel. From the listening position, face the two speakers with your arms outstretched pointing at each speaker. Try to make the two tones sound as if they are arriving simultaneously at a position slightly in front of

you and between your arm span.1

Fine Speaker Distance

• Default setting: 10.0 ft. (3.0 m) (all channels)

For proper sound depth and separation with your system, it is necessary to add a slight bit of delay to some speakers so that all sounds will arrive at the listening position at the same time. The following setting can help you make detailed adjustments that you may not achieve using the Manual speaker setup below.

1Select ‘Fine SP Distance’ from the Manual MCACC setup menu.

The volume increases to the reference level.

3.Manual MCACC

a.Fine Ch Level b.Fine SP Distance c.Advanced EQ Setup d.EQ Data Copy

e.EQ CUSTOM1 Adjust f .EQ CUSTOM2 Adjust g.EQ Data Check

:Return

2Adjust the distance of the left channel from the listening position.

3b.Fine SP Distance

L(Reference)

10.0 ft

ENTER:Next :Cancel

After pressing ENTER, test tones will be output.

3Select each channel in turn and adjust the distance as necessary.

Use to adjust the delay of the speaker you selected to match the reference speaker. The delay is measured in terms of speaker distance from 0.5 to 45.0 feet.

3b.Fine	SP	Distance
L		10.0ft (Reference)
R	[	9.0ft ]
C		9.5ft
SL	[	6.0ft	]
SR	[	6.5ft ]
SBL	[	6.0ft ]
SBR	[	6.5ft ]
SW	[ 12.5ft ]

:Finish

When it sounds like the delay settings are matched up, press ENTER to confirm and continue to the next channel.

•For comparison purposes, the reference speaker will change depending on which speaker you select.

•If you want to go back and adjust a channel, simply

use to select it.

4When you're finished, press RETURN. You return to the Manual MCACC setup menu.

Professional Acoustic Calibration EQ

Acoustic Calibration Equalization is a kind of speaker equalizer. It works by measuring the acoustic characteristics of your listening room and turning the ambient environment into a natural state to reproduce the source sound as it was originally recorded. This is an equalizer that enables a ‘flat’ setting.

This setting minimizes the undesirable reverberation of your listening room based on the sound directly coming from the speakers. You can select a correction time period during the automatic calibration.

If you’re not satisfied with the automatic adjustment provided in Automatically setting up for surround sound (Auto MCACC) on page 8, you can also adjust these settings manually to get a frequency balance that suits your tastes.

Note

1 If you can’t seem to achieve this by adjusting the distance setting, you may need to change the angle of your speakers very slightly.

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