3. SETUP MENU continued …

3.3SPEAKER 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 50 to control bass information so it is not lost or distorted by smaller speakers that are unable to reproduce large amounts of bass.

3. SPEAKER CONFIGURATION

a. BASS MANAGEMENT-MOVIE b. BASS MANAGEMENT-MUSIC c. SURROUNDS: Dipole

d. REARS: Dipole-7.1

e. UNITS: ft

f. CENTER EQ: No

g. TV SIZE: 30-42 in h. ROOM RESONANCE FILTER

Bass Management Configurations for Movies and Music:

The AVM 50 allows you to set two bass management configurations – Music can be tailored for music and/or movies that do not contain a Low Frequency Effects ‘.1’ track, and Movie for any source material that contains LFE.

Use of the Music configuration is optional. Once you enter menu 3b. BASS MANAGEMENT-MUSIC, it asks whether or not you want to use the same settings as the Movie 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 3.6.

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 SURROUNDS or REARS type, their distance will be set internally as equal to the greatest distance in menu 4. LISTENER POSITION.

If you are using one Rear speaker, set d. REARS to 6.1 and use the Rear-L output.

If you are using no Rear speakers, skip the d. REARS setting. It makes no difference what it’s set to.

Units:

Feet (ft) or metres (m). This will be used for size and distance measurements.

Center EQ:

When a center channel speaker sits on top of or below a vertical surface such as a TV screen, frequency response can be altered by the reflections, making dialog less natural. With Anthem’s unique CENTER EQ set to ‘Yes’, timbre can be restored using response curves designed to cancel effects of TV screens.

TV Size:

This determines the CENTER EQ response curve. Since room/TV/furniture acoustics vary, as do characteristics of center channel speakers, play a few DVDs to find the setting that works best.

Select from 18”- 30” / 30”- 42” / 42”- 54” / 54”- 66” / 66”- 78”. If UNITS is set to ‘m’, the selections are 45 - 75 cm / 75 - 100 cm / 100 - 135 cm / 135 - 165 cm / 165 - 200 cm. Use the setting that provides the clearest dialog, even if it doesn’t match the size of your TV. Turning the Center EQ off may sound best – let your ears, not your eyes, decide!

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