Dolby Laboratories DP564 Chapter 5 Listening Room Calibration

DP564 Multichannel Audio Decoder

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Chapter 5 Listening Room Calibration

Setting up your listening environment is a crucial element in enabling you to properly

evaluate content. Follow the procedures in this chapter carefully. You should only

need to do this once for each monitor system or room; however, quick checks are

advised before each session to confirm the correct calibration settings.

All the adjustments necessary to set up your listening room properly are found in the

Monitor Configuration menu, which is on the main setup menu.

To set up your listening environment:

1. Assign the speaker configuration settings to match your system.

2. Set the delay values to adjust for speaker placement.

3. Calibrate the speaker playback levels.

4. Assign a level to the one-touch Dim setting.

5.1 Speaker Configuration Settings

Use the Speaker Config menu to configure the DP564 to match your listening

system. The settings for speaker size, subwoofer and crossover determine how the

DP564 distributes low frequencies to your speakers. Settings that match your system

allow the most accurate processing possible in your listening environment.

Large indicates that the speaker is considered full-range, and does not require bass

management. A system with full-range speakers (setting: Large) at every output and

a subwoofer (setting: Yes) allows the system to process the signals for each channel

without any redirection. Setting a speaker to Small indicates that the speaker is a

near-field or satellite design and is not designed to reproduce extremely low

frequencies (typically, below 80 Hz). The Small setting filters out low-frequency

information from that channel and redirects it to a speaker more capable of

reproducing low frequencies (often a subwoofer).

Subwoofer Crossover

The setting you choose for the subwoofer crossover frequency (SW Xover Freq)

depends on the capability of your front and surround speakers. The DP564 diverts

signals below the value of this setting from those channels, set as Small in the

Speaker Configuration menu, to either the subwoofer output (in nearly all

cases) or to the Left and Right outputs. Most smaller speakers require a setting of

Contents

Main Dolby Laboratories, Inc. Table of Contents Page Page List of Figures List of Tables Regulatory Notices and Fusing Information FCC Canada UL EU D I S NL Fusing Information Page Chapter 1 Introduction DP564 Multichannel Audio Decoder Introduction 1-2 Page Page Chapter 2 Installation 2.1 Mounting 2.2 Rear-Panel Connections 2.2.1 BNC Connectors 2.2.2 Optical In and Serial Ports 2.2.3 Analog Outputs 2.2.4 Power Page DP564 Multichannel Audio Decoder 3-1 Chapter 3 Front-Panel Controls s t o m 3.2 Button Functions 3.2.1 Navigation 3.2.2 Listening Modes Page 3.2.3 Input 3.2.4 Preset 3.2.5 Output Level 3.2.6 Special Button Functions 3.3 LED Indicators Page Page Chapter 4 Menus 4.1 Menu Basics 4.2 Hot-Key Functions 4.3 Status Menu 4.3.1 Main Status Menu -27 PCM Audio 44.1 kHz 20 Bit Consumer Preset 1 4.3.2 Output Level Meters 4.3.3 Compression Meters 4.3.4 Monitor Status 4.3.5 Metadata Status 4.3.6 Input Status 4.3.7 AES Reference Input Status 4.3.8 Timecode Status 4.3.9 Error Statistics 4.3.10 System Status 4.4 Setup Menu 4.4.1 Operating Mode 4.4.2 Monitor Control Page Page Page 4.4.3 User Presets ABCDEFGHIJKLM/ NOPQRSTUVWXYZ_ 123456789.:~ Save Preset 1 Preset 1 OK Del Space Clear ! 4.4.4 I/O Control Page 4.4.5 Monitor Configuration 4.4.6 System Settings ABCDEFGHIJKLM/ NOPQRSTUVWXYZ_ 123456789.:-~ Unit Name Model DP564 OK Del Space Clear ! Page Page Page Chapter 5 Listening Room Calibration 5.1 Speaker Configuration Settings 5.2 Speaker Delay Values 5.2.1 Center Delay 5.2.2 Surround Delay 5.2.3 Back Surround Delay 5.2.4 Pro Logic Delay 5.3 Calibration Page Page Page 5.4 One-Touch Output Level Adjustment Page Chapter 6 Operating Modes 6.1 Monitoring Modes 6.1.1 Downmix 6.1.2 Decoding 6.1.3 Listening 6.1.4 Compression 6.2 Hardware Remote Control 6.2.1 Cat. No. 549 Configuration Button Pro Logic II LED Sense Normal Cat.No.549 Config 4 6.2.2 GPI/O Pin Configuration Pin 23 In Out Page Page Page Chapter 7 Using New Features 7.1 Multiple Inputs 7.2 Expanded Preset Storage Page 7.9 Timecode Output 7.10 External AES Reference 7.11 Ethernet Software Remote Control 7.12 Streaming 7.13 Karaoke Page Chapter 8 Streaming Server and Remote Software 8.1 DolbyRemote 564 8.2 Hardware Connection 8.3 Installing DolbyRemote 564 8.4 Launching the Application 8.5 DolbyRemote 564 Overview 8.6 Streaming 8.6.1 Server Location 8.6.2 File Selection 8.6.3 Play, Pause, Stop Control 8.6.4 Slide Bar Control 8.7 Dolby Streaming Server 8.7.1 Installing the Dolby Streaming Server 8.7.2 Launching the Application Appendix A Metadata A.1 Metadata Overview Page Page A.2 Dialogue Level Page A.3 Dynamic Range Control Page Dynamic Range Control Profiles Input Level Ouput Level A.4 Downmixing Page A.5 Parameter Definitions A.5.1 Universal Parameters Page Page Page Page Page Page A.5.2 Extended Bitstream Information Parameters Page Page Page A.6 Metadata Combinations Page Appendix B Latency Values B.1 SMPTE Specification (Professional AES3) B.2 IEC 61937 Specification (Consumer S/PDIF) Page Page Appendix C Specifications