Madrigal Imaging AVP2 multichannel THX is it a recording device?, how many input connectors?

multichannel THX

is it a recording device?

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how many input connectors?

The AVP2 also allows you to specify, on a source-by-source basis, whether you would like to apply THX Ultra II post processing to any multichannels signals (like Dolby Digital or DTS) that are received from this source component. You can always toggle THX on and off using the special button on the remote (see The Special Menu for more details)—this setting merely determines the default settings you would like to use most of the time.

Since the only multichannel signal likely to be received from a CD player is a DTS music recording, you would probably want to force off THX when using your CD player. Other options include force on and use default, the latter indicat- ing that the AVP2 should continue doing whatever it would have been doing prior to receiving the multichannel signal.

If this component were capable of recording (a CD-R, tape deck, VCR, etc.), and assuming you wanted to make recordings through the system, you would need to make another connection to provide for making those recordings. Specifically, you would need to use the record output on the AVP2 to feed the recording device a signal to be recorded.

Moreover, the system needs to know which sources are hooked up in this way to ensure that you do not accidently send a source back to itself to be recorded—a situation that can produce unpleasant and even speaker-threatening feedback loops. For these reasons, we need to let the system know which of our sources are connected to a record output.

1MOVE TO THE “REC OUT:” ITEM IN THE MENU, PRESS THE ENTER BUTTON, AND USE THE VOLUME ± BUTTONS TO INFORM THE SYSTEM WHETHER A RECORD OUTPUT IS BEING USED WITH THIS SOURCE COMPONENT; PRESS ENTER AGAIN TO SAVE THE CHANGE

Your choices are no, warn, and prohibit. For a CD transport, you’ll probably leave it at no. If you were setting up a cassette deck, you should choose prohibit, which would ensure that you do not accidently send a source back to itself to be recorded.

The warn option is for sophisticated users who understand the potential dangers of feedback loops and how to avoid them, but wish to have the ability to set up such a potential situation for a specific reason. In this case, the AVP2 will put up an on screen warning about the record loop, but al- low it to be selected nonetheless.

We do not recommend the use of the “warn” feature for most users or situations, but provide it to solve specific problems sometimes encountered with outboard equalizers, etc.

How many physical connections does this component require? (A stereo pair of analog signals is considered “one connection” for the purposes of this discus- sion.) In the case of a CD transport, the answer is easy. All you have is a digital output to accommodate, so the answer is one. A laserdisc player is the most com- plicated, since it might have three sets of signals: RF Dolby Digital (AC-3), normal