System Configuration
•Room Equalization: Each room has unique characteristics that may affect the frequency response at the listening position. For example, doorways and alcoves can increase bass response nearby. Varying surfaces such as hard floors or windows, or soft carpets or draperies, may also affect the way the room responds to sound. Until now, expensive testing devices and long hours of taking measurements and adjusting room furnishings were required in order to smooth out the frequency response to avoid artifacts. EzSet/EQ simplifies equaliza- tion, delivering world-class performance with- out the extra expense. While the test tone cir- culates, EzSet/EQ is able to obtain a sonic “view” of the room and its characteristics, and adjust the receiver’s output accordingly to cus- tomize performance to the listening room.
Step 9: When all measurements are successfully completed, the test signals will stop and a TEST DONE UNPLUG MIC message will appear in the second line of the on-screen menu listings.
Step 10: If the measurements are not successful due to a missing or malfunctioning speaker, an ERROR message and menu will appear, as shown in Figure 7g. The EzSet/EQ system is pro- grammed to look for speaker pairs at the front left/front right, surround left/surround right and surround back left/surround back right positions. If the tests to any of those three channel pairs indicates that one, but not both of the speakers in the pair is present, the menu will show NONE next to the speaker position where the tests did not report back that a speaker is present. Should this message appear, make note of the suspect speaker location, exit all menus and turn the receiver off. Check all speaker wire connections and then rerun EzSet/EQ.
Manual Setup
Harman Kardon recommends that you use the EzSet/EQ procedure described on pages 21 to configure your receiver for operation. However, you may manually configure your AVR if you simply prefer to make your adjustments manually.
To begin manual setup using the full-OSD menu system, press the OSD Button v so that the MASTER MENU appears on screen. Press the ⁄/¤ Buttons n until the › cursor points to the MANUAL SETUP line, and press the Set Button p. The MANUAL SETUP menu (Figure 8) will appear.
With the MASTER MENU on screen, press the
¤Button n until the › cursor is pointing to the MANUAL SETUP line, and press the Set Button p. The MANUAL SETUP submenu will appear (see Figure 8).
Figure 7f
Unplug the microphone and store it in a safe place so that it is available to recalibrate your system if needed due to a change in speakers, preferred listening position, or a major change in the room’s furnishings (such as the addition of thick carpeting or plush furniture) that might require different settings. To enter the settings to the receiver’s memory and return to the Master Menu, press the ⁄/¤ Navigation Buttons
Dso that the on-screen cursor is pointing to
RETURN TO MASTER MENU and press the
Set Button F.
Note: If you wish to check the test results before exiting the EzSet/EQ menu, press the
⁄/¤ Navigation Buttons D so that the on- screen cursor is at the second line of the menu listings, and then press the ‹/› Navigation Buttons E to scroll through the list of speaker positions. The data on each line will also be entered into the listings on the individual SPEAKER SETUP, DELAY ADJUST and CHANNEL ADJUST menus once you exit EZSET/EQ.
Figure 7g
When you have successfully completed the EzSet/EQ process and made any needed adjust- ments to the input and surround mode configu- rations, your receiver is ready for use. If you do not wish to make any manual adjustments to the settings, you may skip the rest of this section and proceed to the Basic Operation section of this manual on page 32 to learn how to operate AVR 147. For those situations where you may wish to make a change to the settings entered by EzSet/EQ, follow the instructions on the following pages.
Figure 8
Adjust the submenus in the MANUAL SETUP submenu in order, as some settings require that previous settings be established first.
EzSet ACTIVATE: The first line in the Manual Setup menu indicates whether you have run EzSet/EQ and whether the settings obtained by EzSet/EQ have been activated as the starting point for manual setup. If you have run EzSet/EQ but you wish to start the setup process from scratch, use the ⁄/¤ Navigation Buttons
Dto move the cursor to this line, and then use
the ‹/› Navigation Buttons E | to |
change the setting to NO. | |
The next four lines of the Manual Setup menu are used to access the four submenus used during the setup process. Each submenu’s settings are dependent upon the previous submenu, and therefore we recommend you visit the menus in the order shown.
Speaker Setup
This menu tells the AVR which type of speakers are in use. This is important as it determines which speakers receive low-frequency (bass) information.
For each of these settings use the LARGE setting if the speakers for a particular position are traditional full-range loudspeakers that are capable of reproducing sounds below 100Hz. Use the SMALL setting for smaller, frequency- limited satellite speakers that do not reproduce sounds below 100Hz. Note that when “small”
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