Parasound Halo C1 Controller manual GETTING STARTED continued, Controls and Operation

GETTING STARTED continued 7

Power switch or unplug either end of the AC cord before the C 1 has first been turned off by the remote control or front panel On-Off button! If AC power is removed from the C 1 before it is turned off you will lose the selections you made during setup and you may hear some nasty thumps in your speakers.

For more detailed directions to connect the C 1, see the three chapters “Making Connections”. (pages 37-54).

Controls and Operation

For starters, all you need to do is turn the C 1 on and wait a few seconds for it to “boot up.” Select an input (see below), and raise the volume to a comfortable level. The display will show which input is selected and to what input jacks it’s assigned, the listening mode, and the current volume level.

	Audio 1
AUDIO
Signal	Analog
Input:	Analog 7
Mode	Stereo
VIDEO
Signal	No signal
Input	AUTO 2
	-44dB

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This information is normally visible on the front-panel display, but is not normally part of the information you can feed to a video monitor via the composite or S-Video OSD (on-screen display) jack. The OSD will, however, show briefly any changes in control settings. Raise the volume 1 decibel, for example, and the bottom of the screen will show something like this:

-19 dB

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The bar-graph above has a vertical marker at 0 dB, plus a second marker (the one at the left, in this case) to show the current volume setting. After speaker levels have been set up (see “Speaker Setup,” in the chapter on “Adjustments, Menus, and Setup”) a volume setting of “0” will correspond to THX reference level, a sound pressure level (SPL) of 75 dB, measured with the standard “C” weighting curve.

Calibration	Display Dim
Microphone Input
IR Mute	Video Display Screen	Status Menu Knob

Headphone

Output

C o n t r o l l e r

Phones Cal Mic Mute Dim

	Audio 1
AUDIO
Signal	Analog
Input:	Analog 7
Mode	Stereo
VIDEO
Signal	No signal
Input	AUTO 2
	-44dB

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THX SURROUND EX	Status Menu
7 . 5 C H A N N E L
E N H A N C E D
S U R RO U N D

C 1

On-OffZoneZone Display MainSourceSurround

On-Off Zone	Display	Display	Source Surround
	Zone	Main	Mode

The knob at the far right normally controls volume, but pressing the appropriate buttons (see below) turns it into a selector knob for menu items and source selection.