Integra DTR-7.4 instruction manual About HomeTheater, Enjoying Home Theater, How to use speakers

About HomeTheater

Enjoying Home Theater

The DTR-7.4 has many excellent features to recreate a clear three-dimensional sound image and lively sound movement. This enables you to easily enjoy rich sound effects just like you were in a theater or concert hall at home.

For the DTR-7.4, We recommend you to use the THX-certified THX speaker system for THX Surround EX playback. When playing a DVD, you can enjoy sound effects provided by DTS, Dolby Digital or THX, depending on recording formats. In addition, you can enjoy Integra’s proprietary DSP surround playback for TV or digital satellite broadcasts.

How to use speakers

When you have two speakers, they are used for front left and right speakers (2 channel playback).

When you have three speakers, they are used for front left, front right and center speakers (3 channel surround playback).

When you have four speakers, they are used for front left, front right, surround left, and surround right speakers (4 channel surround playback).

When you have five speakers, they are used for front left, front right, center, surround left and surround right speakers (5 channel surround playback).

When you have six speakers, they are used for front left, front right, center, surround left, surround right and surround back speakers (6 channel surround playback).

When you have seven speakers, they are used for front left, front right, center, surround left, surround right, surround back left, and surround back right speakers (7 channel surround playback).

No matter how many speakers you use, a subwoofer can be used to produce powerful and heavy bass sound (0.1 channel playback).

Front left and right speakers

Output overall sound. They play the most important role in a home theater system, by creating basic sound images and fields.

Place the front speakers in front of the listener so that they point to the listener’s ears in the listening position for music and movies. Ideal speaker placement is so that they are located symmetrically.

Center speaker

Complements the sound effects from front left and right speakers to enrich and clear the sound image and move- ment. In movies, an actor's speech comes mainly from the center speaker.

Place the center speaker as close as possible to the TV or monitor, point- ing it towards the listener’s ears. Also, keep the center speaker’s height at the same level as the front left and right speakers.

Subwoofer

Outputs only bass sounds to enhance and complement bass sound effects. Place the sub- woofer either at the front corner of the room or at a position 1/3 from either front corner of the room.

Surround back speakers

Enhance the sound space repre- sentation with surround channel signals. Recreating sound movement effects and sound fields behind the listener gives a more realistic experience.

Surround left and right speakers

Enhance the sensation of being at a live performance by giving three-dimensional sound movement to the sound effects. Place the surround speakers at the side of the listener or at a position diagonally from the listener. Ideally, speakers should be placed symmetrically.

•For optimum surround playback, set the distance between the listener and the speakers so that the time it takes the sound to reach the listener is constant. Also, you need to set each speaker volume level individually in order to balance the volume level between speakers (See pages 32 and 35).

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