McIntosh MVP851 owner manual Loudspeaker Time Delay

SETUP, con’t

ity for reproducing bass frequencies down to 35Hz within -3dB of the midrange frequencies. If a Loud- speaker can not reproduce bass frequencies down to 35Hz within -3dB of the midrange frequencies it is considered SMALL.

1. Press the Up directional Push-button twice fol- lowed by pressing the Left directional Push-but- ton twice. The Center Channel Loudspeaker Icon will now be highlighted.

2.Press the SELECT Push-button and arrowheads will appear above and below the Icon of the Center Channel Loudspeaker. Refer to figure 25.

3.Select the Speaker Icon Setting of Large, Small or None, that agrees with your Sound System, by us-

ing the Up or Down directional Push-buttons. The Loudspeaker Icon in figure 25 is for a Large Loudspeaker, the Icon in figure 26 is of a Small Loudspeaker and figure 27 illustrates no Center Channel Loudspeaker present.

Note: If the no Center Channel is present in the system, a phantom center channel will be created using the Front Left and Right Channels.

4.In a similar manner select the correct choice for the Left & Right Front Channels, Subwoofer Channel and Left & Right Surround Channels in the system by using the four DIRECTIONAL and SELECT Push-buttons.

Note: If there is no Subwoofer present in the system, the Low Frequency Information below 100Hz will be redirected to the Front Left and Right Channels and only when they are set to Large. A table, on page 28, is provided to record the new Loudspeaker Size Adjustments.

5.Proceed to Loudspeaker Time Delay Settings.

LOUDSPEAKER TIME DELAY

The following Time Delay Adjustments will electroni- cally compensate for different Loudspeaker Distances from the Lis- tening/View- ing Area. Re-

fer to figure

28.Time de- lay is mea- sured in mil-

liseconds (ms) and each milli- second corre- sponds ap- proximately

Figure 28

Figure 25

Figure 26

Figure 27

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