7.SETUP MENU continued …

7.4.2 SPEAKER CONFIGURATION

The Speaker Configuration Setup allows you to enter information about how many speakers you have in your system, and their relative size and type. Here you will also set up the bass management. Entering information about the size of your speakers will enable the AVM 30 to control bass information so it is not lost or distorted by smaller speakers that are unable to reproduce large amounts of bass.

2.SPEAKER CONFIGURATION

a.CINEMA SPKR CONFIGURATION

b.MUSIC SPKR CONFIGURATION

c.SURROUND TYPE : Dipole

d.REAR QTY / TYPE : 2 Dipole

e.CENTER EQ : No

f.TV SIZE FOR EQ : 30-42 in

g.ROOM RESONANCE FILTER

h.SET BASS PEAK LEVEL

Cinema and Music Configurations:

The AVM 30 allows you to set two separate bass management configurations – Music can be tailored for music (and movies that do not contain a Low Frequency Effects ‘.1’ track), and Cinema for source material that contains LFE, including all 5.1/6.1 channel movie and music sources. These configurations can be assigned to each Source.

Using the Music configuration is optional. Once you enter menu 2b. MUSIC SPKR CONFIGURATION, it asks whether or not you want to use the same settings as the Cinema configuration – ‘Yes’ is the factory default.

Setting up a configuration is described later in this section. Assigning a configuration to a Source or enabling automatic activation according to presence/absence of LFE is explained in section 7.4.5.

Surround and Rear Speaker Quantity and Type:

Surround speakers fall under two radiation pattern categories: Direct and Dipole. No delay is necessary in channels using dipole speakers – the sound is already delayed through room reflections. When dipoles are selected as the SURROUND TYPE and/or REAR TYPE, their distance will automatically equal the greatest distance in menu 3. LISTENER POSITION (see section 7.4.3).

If you are using one Rear speaker, set d. REAR QTY/TYPE to one speaker and use the Rear-L output.

If your speaker system is 5.1 (thus no Rear channels), simply ignore the d. REAR QTY/TYPE setting.

Center EQ:

When a center channel speaker sits on top of or below a TV, its frequency response can be altered by reflections coming off the screen, making dialog less natural. With Anthem’s unique CENTER EQ set to ‘Yes’, timbre can be restored using response curves prepared specifically for cancelling out effects of TV screens.

TV Size For EQ :

This is used to determine the magnitude of the CENTER EQ change. Since room/TV/furniture acoustics vary, as do characteristics of center channel speakers from model to model, you may wish to spend a little time experimenting to determine which setting works best – play 3 or 4 different DVDs and listen to center channel dialog to find the setting that sounds the clearest.

•Select the TV size category that is one higher than what you are using, and then listen. The size categories are: 18”- 30” / 30”- 42” / 42”- 54” / 54”- 66” / 66”- 78”.

•Leave it in the setting that provides the clearest dialog, even if it doesn’t actually match the size of your TV. Turning the Center EQ off completely may even sound best. Let your ears be the final judge!

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