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Setting Your Speaker System

for Multichannel Audio Playback

This player contains a built-in decoder for Dolby Digital, DTS and MPEG audio sources as well as 5.1 channel discrete audio output. Ideally, a 5.1 channel system contains 6 speakers: 2 front speakers, 2 surround speakers, a center speaker, and a sub woofer. However, as this is not always the case, accurately setting the [Speaker Setting] setting to reflect your speaker setup allows the player’s built-in decoder to reroute signals to compensate for absent speakers.

Make adjustments in the [Speaker Setting] setting in the Setup screen Audio 2 menu.

1 Press Enter.

Audio1 Audio2 Video Language General

Audio DRC

– Off

Audio Out

– 5.1 Channel

Speaker Setting

Start

 

 

Gain Setting – Fix

 

CD Digital Direct – Off

 

Move

SETUP Exit

2 Press Enter.

Audio1 Audio2 Video Language General

Audio DRC

– Off

Audio Out

– 5.1 Channel

Speaker Setting

Start

Gain Setting – Fix

 

CD Digital Direct – Off

 

Move

SETUP Exit

Set to Speaker’s size

3 Move the cursor control joystic up or down to select the speaker.

Audio1 Audio2 Video LanguageGeneral

 

Speaker Setting

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Size

 

 

 

L

 

R

L/R

Large

 

 

 

 

 

C

Large

 

 

SW

 

LS

Large

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

RS

Large

 

LS RS

SW

On

 

 

 

 

 

Return

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Distance

ENTER

Select

SETUP

Exit

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

4 Move the cursor control joystic left or right to select Large/Small/Off or On/Off corresponding to whether the selected speaker is present in your system or not, respectively.

Set the size of your speakers in the Size screen. The front left/right [L/R] speakers have a fixed setting of Large. The center [C], left surround [LS] and right surround [RS] speakers can each be set to [Large], [Small] or [Off]. Set a speaker to Large if the main speaker cone is 120mm (4 3/4”) or more; set to [Small] if the it’s less than 120mm (4 3/4”). Note that the [LS] and [RS] speakers cannot be set independently.

The subwoofer (SW) can only be set to On or Off. The graphic on the right of the screen represents your speaker setup, with the currently selected speaker’s name highlighted in blue, and the speakers set to On highlighted in yellow.

5 Repeat steps 3 and 4 for each speaker in your system.

Set to distance from listening position

6 Move the cursor control joystic up to select [Size] and press cursor control joystic right.

7 Move the cursor control joystic up or down to select the speaker.

Audio1 Audio2 Video LanguageGeneral

 

Speaker Setting

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Distance

 

 

L

 

R

L/R

3.0m

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

C

3.0m

 

 

 

SW

 

LS

3.0m

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

RS

3.0m

 

 

LS RS

SW

3.0m

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Return

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Size

 

 

ENTER

Select

 

SETUP

Exit

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

8 Move the cursor control joystic left or right to select distance from speaker.

Set the distance from your main listening position to each speaker in the Distance screen. The distance setting for any speaker that was set to Off in the Size screen will be grayed out. For the other speakers, enter the distance to the nearest 0.5 feet (0.1m). You can set the distance for the [L/R] speakers between 1.0 feet (0.3m) and 30 feet (9m). Note that you must set the [C] and [SW] speakers within 6.5 feet (2m) of the [L/R] setting. The [LS] and [RS] speakers must be set within -20 feet (-6m) and +6.5 feet (+2m) of the [L/R] setting.

The graphic on the right of the screen represents your speaker setup, with the currently selected speaker’s name highlighted in blue, and the speakers set to [On] highlighted in yellow.

Note: If your subwoofer is placed beyond the adjustment range (L/R6.5 (2)), set to the nearest setting possible. Surround sound cohesion should not be affected very much.

Notes

If you have already completed the Setup Navigator screen operations, the settings on this page have already been set by the player.

If you have not made connections to the AUDIO OUT (5.1channel) jacks on the rear panel of the player, it is not necessary to make any changes to this setting.

To help identify the speakers being selected, the initials of the speakers in the speaker system representation on the right side of the screen will appear in blue.

The menu settings may look different from the one shown above.

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