Harman-Kardon 347 owner manual Night Mode Settings

System Configuration

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To change these parameters, press the ⁄/¤ Navigation Buttons D while the Surround menu is on the screen until the line on the menu with the parameter you wish to change is highlighted in blue. Then, press the Set Button F and the ‹/› Navigation Buttons E to alter the setting to your taste.

Note that when the Dolby Digital mode is select- ed there are additional settings available for the Night mode that are associated with the sur- round mode only, not with the input. That´s why these settings must be made only once, not with each input in use.

Night Mode Settings

The Night mode is a feature of Dolby Digital that uses special processing to preserve the dynamic range and full intelligibility of a movie sound track while reducing the peak level. This prevents abruptly loud transitions from disturbing others, without reducing the sonic impact of a digital source. Note that the Night mode is only available when the Dolby Digital surround mode is selected.

To adjust the Night mode setting from the menu press the OSD Button L so that the main menu appears. Then press the ¤ button D to highlight the Surround -tab and press Set

Fto access it. Press the ¤ Button D twice until the Night -line is highlighted in blue. (see figure 11).

Figure 11

To adjust the Night mode setting, first press the Set Button F, followed by the ‹/› Buttons

Eto choose between the following set-

tings.

OFF: When OFF is highlighted, the Night mode will not function.

MID: When MID is in the highlighted video, a mild compression will be applied.

MAX: When MAX is in the highlighted video, a more severe compression algorithm will be applied.

When you want to use the Night mode feature, we recommend that you select the MID setting as a starting point and change to the MAX setting later, if desired.

Note that the Night mode may be adjusted directly any time that Dolby Digital surround mode is selected by pressing the Night button B. When the button is pressed, the words D-RANGEfollowed by the current setting (MID, MAX, OFF) will appear in the lower third of the video screen and in the Main Information Display Ò. Press the ⁄/¤ buttons D within five seconds to select the desired setting, then press Set F to confirm the setting.

The last option line in this menu is the setting to turn the unit’s upsampling feature on or off. In normal use, this feature is turned off, which means that digital sources are processed at their native sample rate. For example, a 48kHz digital source will be processed at 48kHz. However, the AVR allows you to upsample the incoming 48kHz signals to 96kHz for added resolution.

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To take advantage of this feature, press the ⁄/¤ Navigation Button n so that the Upsampling -line is highlighted in blue and press Set Button F, followed by the ‹/› Navigation Button E so that ON is highlighted in reverse video. Note that this feature is only available for the Dolby Pro Logic II-Music, Dolby Pro Logic II-Movie, Dolby Pro Logic and Dolby 3 Stereo modes.

On the DTS menu, the selection choices made with the ‹ / › Buttons E on the remote are determined by a combination of the type of DTS program material in use and whether the 5.1 or 6.1/7.1 speaker output configuration is in use.

When a DTS source is playing, the choice of modes for 7.1 systems will vary according to the type of program source (DTS Stereo, DTS 5.1, DTS-ES Matrix or DTS-ES Discrete). Press the ‹/› Buttons E to scroll through the choices that are available for your system and the pro- gram in use.

With no source playing, or while an analog audio source is playing, you will only be able to view the DTS Neo:6 surround mode.

When the 5.1 configuration is in use the AVR will automatically select the 5.1 version of DTS processing when a DTS data stream is received. When the 6.1/7.1 mode is selected, the DTS-ES Discrete mode will automatically be activated when a DTS source with the ES Discrete “flag” is in use and the DTS-ES Matrix mode will be acti- vated when an ES-Matrix encoded audio track is received. In both cases the appropriate surround mode will be indicated in the Main Information Display Ò in the front panel display and on the screen. When a non-ES DTS disc is in use, when the 6.1/7.1 mode is chosen the unit automatically will select the DTS + NEO:6 mode to create a full eight-speaker sur- round mode. When a DTS 96/24 signal is detect- ed, the AVR 347 defaults to the DTS surround mode, but reproduces the higher-resolution materials that are present due to the higher sampling rate automatically. See page 37-38 for a complete explanation of the DTS modes.

On the LOGIC 7 menu, the selection choices made with the ‹ / › Buttons E on the remote are determined by whether the 5.1 or 6.1/7.1 speaker output configuration is in use. In either case, the selection of a Logic 7 mode enables Harman Kardon’s exclusive Logic 7 processing to create fully enveloping, multi- channel surround from either two-channel Stereo or Matrix-encoded programming such as VHS cassettes, laserdiscs or television broadcasts produced with Dolby surround.

In the 5.1 configuration you may select the Logic 7/5.1 Music, Cinema or Enhanced modes. They work best with two-channel music, surround- encoded programs or standard two-channel pro- gramming of any type, respectively. When the 6.1/7.1 mode is selected, the Logic 7/7.1 Music or Cinema modes are available, but the output will be in a full eight-channel sound field. Note that the Logic 7 modes are not available when either Dolby Digital or DTS Digital soundtracks are in use.

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