Pioneer SX-SW260 Surround sound settings Chapter, Using the Setup menu, Channel level setting

Surround sound settings

Chapter 7

Surround sound settings

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Using the Setup menu

From the Setup menu you can access all the surround

sound settings of the system1, including channel levels, speaker distances, dynamic range adjustment and dual mono audio playback.

Use the following buttons to use the Setup menu.

	SLEEP
ENTER	CLEAR
SETUP	SR
	TUNE
ST	ST
	ENTER
	TEST
SOUND	TONE
	TUNE
SOUND
RETRIEVER

5Press ENTER when you’re finished.

•If you use the Auto MCACC feature again, it will overwrite the settings you have made here.

Speaker distance setting

The Auto MCACC feature (see page 17) should give you the best surround sound setup. However you may find that by further adjustment of the speaker distance settings you can improve the surround sound in your listening room.

Set the distance of each speaker from your normal listening position.

1 Press SETUP.

2 Use the (cursor left/right) buttons to select DISTANCE, then press ENTER.

SURROUND ADVANCED MCACC

CHANNELVOLUME

Channel level setting

The Auto MCACC feature (see page 17) should give you the best surround sound setup. However you may find that by further adjustment of the channel levels you can improve the surround sound in your listening room.

This method of setting the channel levels allows you to listen to a source and adjust the levels of each playback channel. Note that the channel level settings for stereo playback are independent of the settings for surround sound playback.

A further method of setting the channel levels is to use the test tone method. See Adjusting the channel levels using the test tone on page 26 for more on this.

1Select stereo or multichannel playback for a source.

2Press SETUP.

3	Use the	(cursor left/right) buttons to select
CH LEVEL, then press ENTER.
4	Use	(cursor left/right) to select a channel;

(cursor up/down) to adjust the level of that channel.

• You can adjust the level of each channel by ± 10 dB.

3 Use (cursor left/right) to select a speaker; (cursor up/down) to adjust the distance.

Adjust the following speakers:

•L – Front left speaker

•C – Center speaker

•R – Front right speaker

•SR – Surround right speaker

•SL – Surround left speaker

•SW – Subwoofer

Each speaker can be adjusted from 1 FT to 30 FT.

4Press ENTER when you’re finished.

•If you use the Auto MCACC feature again, it will overwrite the settings you have made here.

Dynamic Range Control

When watching Dolby Digital or DTS material at low volume, low level sounds—including some of the dialog—can be difficult to hear properly. Using one of the Dynamic Range Control (DRC) settings can help by bringing up the low level sounds, while controlling high level peaks.

Dynamic Range Control works only with Dolby Digital soundtracks and some DTS soundtracks.

• If the system is in Stereo or Virtual mode, or a stereo	1	Press SETUP.
source is playing in Auto mode, you will not be able	2	Use the	(cursor left/right) buttons to select
to adjust the center or surround channels.
	DRC, then press ENTER.
	3	Use	(cursor up/down) to select a setting.
	Select one of the following:

Note

1 There are other settings you can adjust from the Setup menu; these are explained in Listening to the radio on page 23 and Additional informa- tion on page 30.

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