Pioneer VSX-45TX manual Fine Channel Delay

Fine Tuning Your System

FINE CHANNEL DELAY

The following steps show you how to adjust the delay level of your speakers more finely than in the NORMAL setup (see page 43). Adding a slight delay to some speakers is necessary to achieve proper sound depth, separation as well as an effective surround sound effect. Do this procedure if you want to try and get even finer surround sound.

The main difference with this setup method and the CHANNEL DELAY setup method in NORMAL setup is that here the test tone sounds from a reference channel and you use that to measure the target speaker (that is, the speaker whose level you want to adjust).

1	2	3	4		Follow steps 1-5 on page 96, if necessary, to get to the
DIMMER	LOUDNESS	TONE	EFFECT/CH SEL
SIGNAL SEL	DNR	BASS/TREBLE +			starting point mentioned here.
5	6	7	8
VIDEO SEL	HI-BIT	+10	– DISC
9	0		ENTER		1 FINE CHANNEL DELAY should be
MENU			TOP MENU
		DIRECT ACCESS SEARCH MODE
SYSTEM SETUP			GUIDE		selected, if it isn’t use the 5∞
TUNER EDIT			EXIT	1-6
			TRACK
	ENTER
AUDIO			RETURN		buttons to select and press ENTER.
MPX	DTV ON/OFF		DISP MODE
¶		8	SUB TITLE
TUNING –	BAND		TUNING +

1 3 ¡

4	7	¢	2 Use the 5∞ buttons to adjust the
STATION –	DTV MENU CLASS	STATION +
CHANNEL–		CHANNEL+	distance of the FRONT L channel.
1-6
			Press ENTER.

Test tones will be output.

This channel will be the target reference which you use to measure the other channels.

STANDBY/ON
		STANDBY			3	Use the 5∞ buttons to select the
MOVIE	MUSIC	ENTER
	MULTI JOG					channel you want to adjust. Press
		MULTI JOG CONTROL SIGNAL HI-BIT		SB CH	BAND
		SET UP	RETURN SELECT HI-SAMPLING	MODE		ENTER.
		PHONES	TONE CONTROL
			SPEAKERS TONE BASS/TREBLE
						Test tones will be output for the channel you want to
						adjust and a reference channel.
						Listen to the reference channel and use to measure
						the target channel.

1	Expert
	[Crossover Network						]			4	Adjust the distance of each channel
	[Fine Channel Level						]				using the 5∞ buttons.
	[	Fine Channel Delay					]
		[Acoustic Cal EQ					]				Listen to the reference
	[Bass Peak Level						]
	[D-Range Control						]				channel and use it to measure
	[Exit						]
											the target channel. Stand
											facing the two speakers with
2											your arms outstretched
	Fine Channel Delay										pointing at each speaker. Try
											to make the two tones sound
		Front L		[				]			as if they are arriving simultaneously at a position
					1 0 . 5 f t
											slightly in front of you and between your arm span.
3											The distance can be set within a range of 0.5 to 45 feet
	Fine Channel Delay										in 0.5 foot steps.
	STD:Front L					1 0 . 5 f t					When you press ENTER you will automatically go to
		Front R		[		1 0 . 5 f t			]		the next channel.
		Center	L		[ 1 0 . 0 f t ]
		Surround		[			8 . 5 f t ]
		Surround	R	[			7 . 0 f t ]			5	Press ENTER to select a new
		SurrBack	L	[			6 . 5 f t ]
		SurrBack	R	[			8 . 0 f t ]				channel. Repeat step 4 for every
		Subwoofer			[ 1 1 . 5 f t ]

[Exit ]

channel.

6	Fine Channel				Delay
	STD:Front			L			1 0 . 5 f t
	Front			R		[ 1 1 . 5 f t ]
	Center				L	[ 1 0 . 0 f t ]
	Surround					[	8	. 5 f t ]
	Surround				R	[	7	. 0 f t ]
	SurrBack				L	[	6	. 5 f t ]
	SurrBack				R	[	8	. 0 f t ]
	Subwoofer					[ 1 1 . 5 f t ]
	[	Exit	]

If you want to change a setting before proceeding Use the 5∞ buttons to go back to the channel you want to adjust and press ENTER. Then follow step 3.

6When done select EXIT (if it's not

already selected) and press ENTER.

Next, if you want, proceed to ACOUSTIC CAL EQ.

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