INITIAL SETUP
Setting the Speaker Crossover menu correctly ensures that your speakers sound their best. Although you could skip this step the first time you use the receiver, we recommend that you take the few extra minutes to enter the correct crossover settings.
You may select from seven possible settings: 40Hz, 60Hz, 80Hz, 100Hz, 120Hz, 150Hz or 200Hz. Depending upon the frequency response of your speakers which you recorded in Step One – Determine Speaker Size, for each speaker group select the number that matches or is just above the low end of your speaker’s frequency response. You may record the speaker crossover settings in Table A5 in the appendix.
The LFE line sets the frequency for a
Examine each of your
Move the cursor to the BACK TO MANUAL SETUP line and press the Set Button to return to the Manual Setup menu.
It is not possible to adjust the speaker crossover settings without using the
Delay Adjust Menu
As explained above in Step Two – Measure Speaker Distances, sometimes the speakers are placed at different distances from the listening position, which can muddy the sound, as sounds are heard earlier or later than desired.
Even if all of your speakers are placed the same distance from the listening position, you should not skip this menu.
On the Manual Setup menu, move the cursor to the DELAY ADJUST line and press the Set Button to display the Delay Adjust menu.
See Figure 43.
Figure 43 – Delay Adjust Menu Screen
This menu requires you to enter the distance from each speaker to the listening position, which you measured in Step Two – Measure Speaker Distances and noted in Table A3 in the appendix.
The default unit of measurement is in feet. If you wish to change the unit to meters, move the cursor down to the UNIT line, and use the ‹/› Buttons to change the unit to METER.
Use the ⁄/¤ Buttons to move the cursor to the FL (front left) line; then use the ‹/› Buttons to change the measurement as needed. Use the ⁄/¤ Buttons to move to each speaker in turn – CEN (center), FR (front right), SR (surround right), SL (surround left) and SUB (subwoofer).
DELAY RESET: This line is used if you wish to reset all of the speaker delay settings to the factory default of 10 feet (3.0 meters) at once. Use the ‹/› Buttons to change the setting of OFF to ON. If you change any speaker’s setting, this line will automatically revert to OFF.
A/V SYNC DELAY: This line allows you to compensate for a situation in which one of your source devices, or your video display, introduces a significant amount of video processing that causes the audio and video parts of the signal to lose synchronization. This is known as a “lip sync” problem. You may delay the audio for all channels by up to 80 milliseconds to compensate.
NOTE: We recommend that you adjust the A/V Sync Delay using the Delay Button on the remote, rather than in this menu, so that you can view the picture while adjusting the audio delay. With the program playing, press the Delay Button, and the A/V SYNC DELAY message will appear on the front panel and in the
Move the cursor to the BACK TO MANUAL SETUP line and press the Set Button to return to the Manual Setup menu, or press the OSD Button to exit the menu system.
You may adjust the delay settings without using the
Step Four – Output Level Calibration
This is an important step in the configuration process, and should not be skipped.
Many people assume that during a presentation, such as a movie, the surround channels will sound as loud as the front channels. However, this is usually not the case, as directors often steer only ambient of background sounds to the surround channels. For example, during a
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