nnAudyssey Settings

Default settings are underlined.

Set Audyssey MultEQ® XT, Audyssey Dynamic EQ® and Audyssey Dynamic Volume®. These can be selected after Audyssey® Auto Setup has been performed. For additional information on Audyssey technology, please see page 142.

NOTE

•If you have not performed Auto Setup, or if you change the speaker settings after performing Auto Setup, you may not be able to select Dynamic EQ®/Dynamic Volume®.

In this case, either perform Audyssey® Auto Setup over again or perform “Restore” (vpage 27) to return to the settings after Audyssey® Auto Setup was run.

•When HD Audio for which the sampling frequency exceeds 96 kHz is played back, the “Audyssey Settings” cannot be set.

Setting items

Setting details

 

 

 

 

 

 

MultEQ® XT

Audyssey : Optimize the frequency response of all speakers.

MultEQ® XT corrects

Audyssey Byp.L/R : Optimize frequency response of speakers except

both time and frequency

front L and R speakers.

response problems in the

Audyssey Flat : Optimize frequency response of all speakers to flat

listening area based on

response.

Audyssey® Auto Setup

Manual : Apply frequency response set with “Manual EQ” (vpage 102).

calibration. We recommend

OFF : Turn “MultEQ® XT” equalizer off.

“Audyssey”.

 

 

 

 

 

MultEQ® XT is the

• “Audyssey”, “Audyssey Byp. L/R” and “Audyssey Flat” can be selected

prerequisite function for

after Audyssey® Auto Setup has been performed. “Audyssey” is

Dynamic EQ® and Dynamic

Volume®.

automatically selected after performing Audyssey® Auto Setup.

When

 

 

“Audyssey”, “Audyssey Byp. L/R” or “Audyssey Flat” is selected,

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

illuminates.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

• After running Audyssey® Auto Setup, if the Speaker Configuration,

 

Distance, Channel Level, and Crossover Frequency have changed

 

without increasing the number of speakers measured, only

 

 

 

 

 

illuminates.

NOTE

•“MultEQ® XT” and “Manual” cannot be selected when “EQ Customize” is set to “Not Used” (vpage 110).

•When using headphones, “MultEQ® XT” is automatically set to “OFF”.

“MultEQ® XT”, “Dynamic EQ®” and “Dynamic Volume®” settings are stored for each input source.

AUDIO/VIDEO ADJUST

Setting items

 

 

 

 

 

Setting details

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dynamic EQ®

ON : Use Dynamic EQ®.

Solve the problem of

OFF : Do not use Dynamic EQ®.

deteriorating sound quality

 

 

 

 

 

 

as volume is decreased

 

 

or

 

is displayed when set to “ON”.

by taking into account

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

human perception and

 

 

 

 

 

 

room acoustics. Works with

 

 

 

 

 

 

MultEQ® XT.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Reference Level Offset

0dB (Film Ref) : This is the default setting and should be used when

Audyssey Dynamic EQ® is

listening to movies.

referenced to the standard

5dB : Select this setting for content that has a very wide dynamic range,

film mix level. It makes

such as classical music.

adjustments to maintain

10dB : Select this setting for jazz or other music that has a wider dynamic

the reference response

range. This setting should also be selected for TV content as that is usually

and surround envelopment

mixed at 10 dB below film reference.

when the volume is turned

15dB : Select this setting for pop/rock music or other program material

down from 0 dB. However,

that is mixed at very high listening levels and has a compressed dynamic

film reference level is not

range.

 

 

always used in music or

 

Setting is enabled when “Dynamic EQ®” is “ON” (vpage 101).

other non-film content.

 

Dynamic EQ® Reference

 

 

 

 

 

 

Level Offset provides three

 

 

 

 

 

 

offsets from the film level

 

 

 

 

 

 

reference (5 dB, 10 dB, and

 

 

 

 

 

 

15 dB) that can be selected

 

 

 

 

 

 

when the mix level of the

 

 

 

 

 

 

content is not within the

 

 

 

 

 

 

standard.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dynamic Volume®

Midnight : Most adjustment to loudest and softest sounds.

Solve the problem of large

Evening : Medium adjustment to loudest and softest sound.

variations in volume level

Day : Least adjustment to loudest and softest sounds.

between TV, movies and

OFF : Do not use “Dynamic Volume®”.

other content (between

 

 

 

 

 

 

quiet passages and

•

 

 

is displayed when set to “Midnight”, “Evening” or “Day”.

 

 

loud passages, etc.) by

 

 

automatically adjusting to

• If “Dynamic Volume®” is set to “Yes” in Auto Setup (vpage 25),

the setting is automatically changed to “Evening”.

the user’s preferred volume

 

setting.

 

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