INTRODUCTION
Thank you for choosing Harman Kardon!
With the purchase of a Harman Kardon AVR 260 you are about to begin many years of listening enjoyment. Designed to provide all the excitement and detail of movie soundtracks and every nuance of musical selections, the AVR 260 is truly a multichannel receiver for the new millennium. In addition to the traditional 5.1 digital decoding modes such as Dolby Digital and DTS, they offer the latest advancements in surround technology such as Dolby® True HD and
Harman's own Logic 7 technology .
The AVR 260 has been engineered so that it is easy to take advantage of all the power of its digital technology.
enjoyment from your new receiver, we urge you to read this manual. A few minutes spent learning the functions of the various controls will enable you
to take advantage of all the power the AVR is able to deliver.
If you have any questions about this product, its installation or its operation, please contact your retailer or custom installer. They are your best local sources of information.
Please register your AVR 260 at www.harmankardon.com.
NOTE: You’ll need the product’s serial number. At the same time, you can choose to be notified about new products and/or special promotions.
Description and Features
The AVR serves as the hub of your home entertainment system, providing a wide range of listening possibilities for almost any audio or video program source, whether it is the broadcast of a movie or sporting event in HDTV or a vintage mono or stereo recording. When playing digital audio sources through the HDMI 1.3a compliant connections, the AVR decodes Dolby True HD, Dolby Digital Plus,
Dolby Virtual Speaker is available to create enveloping sound fields from front left and right speakers, and the latest Dolby Headphone circuitry creates an amazing sense of openness with headphones.
The AVR takes the “video” part of its name seriously. Along with three HDMI inputs and two 100MHz analog component video inputs, the AVR’s video processing allows you to scale the output signal to 1080p
to match the requirements of your specific video display. Thanks to award
winning Faroudja® DCDi Cinema™ technology, your video sources never looked better. Tying audio and video together, the AVR provides A/V sync delay so that the lip sync errors – commonly seen when digital video processing is used in a source, program or video display – are eliminated.
An important addition to the AVR’s impressive list of features is EzSet/ EQ™, which automates the configuration process to make it quicker, easier and more precise. Using the special microphone supplied with the unit, EzSet/EQ takes the guesswork out of entering speaker “size” and crossover information, delay times for all channels and output levels. In addition to the configuration settings, EzSet/EQ also includes room equalization so that the signals sent to each speaker are tailored to provide accurate sonic quality with your specific combination of speaker type, room size and other factors that influence room acoustics. With EzSet/EQ, your system is custom- configured in a few minutes with accuracy that previously required expensive and
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