Advanced Setup—Continued

Speaker Levels

These settings are set automatically by the Automatic Speaker Setup function (see page 37).

You can set the volume level of each speaker so that all speakers can be heard equally at the listening position.

1

 

Press the [RECEIVER] REMOTE

RECEIVER

MODE button, followed by the

 

 

 

 

[SETUP] button.

 

SETUP

 

2

 

Use the Up and Down [ ]/[ ]

buttons to select “Level Cal,” and then press [ENTER].

A pink noise test tone is output by the front left speaker.

6

Press the [SETUP] button.

 

 

Setup closes.

 

Don’t forget to turn down the volume if

SETUP

you turned it up while setting the levels.

Notes:

A quick way to adjust the speaker levels is to press the remote controller’s [TEST TONE] button to turn on the test tone, use the [LEVEL–] and [LEVEL+] but- tons to adjust the levels, and use the [CH SEL] button to select the speakers.

The speaker levels cannot be adjusted while a pair of headphones is connected, or the AV receiver is muted.

3

4

5

Turn up the volume so that you can hear the test tone suffi- ciently.

As each speaker outputs the test tone, its name appears on the display.

Use the Left and Right [

]/[ ]

buttons to adjust the speaker

level, and use the Down [

] but-

ton to select the next speaker.

The levels can be adjusted from –12 to +12 dB in 1 dB steps (–15 to +12 dB for the subwoofer).

Repeat step 4 so that the level of the test tone coming from each speaker is the same.

Speakers that you set to No or None in the Speaker Configuration (page 57) do not output the test tone.

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Onkyo HT-SP904 instruction manual Speaker Levels, Buttons to select Level Cal, and then press Enter, Setup closes

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