Surround sound settings

Chapter 5

Surround sound settings

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Important

•To access green functions on the remote, move the slider switch from MAIN to SUB.

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.

 

 

TIMER REC REC MODE

SETUP

 

SR+ ONETOUCHCOPY

1

2

3

 

ENTER

MENU

1Select stereo or multichannel playback for a source.

2Press SETUP.

3

Use the

buttons to select CH LEVEL, then

press ENTER.

 

 

4

Use

to select a channel;

to adjust the

level of that channel.

 

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

•If the system is in Stereo or Virtual mode, or a stereo source is playing in Auto mode, you will not be able to adjust the center or surround channels.

5Press ENTER when you’re finished.

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

4 5 6

MCACC

TEST TONE VIDEO IN

7 8 9

SURROUND ADVANCED SOUND TV/DVD

0

SLEEP

 

CLEAR

JUKE BOX

 

+

+

 

INPUT

CHANNEL

VOLUME DISPLAY

 

–

–

 

 

TV CONTROL

 

RDS DISP

MAIN

SUB

 

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Channel level setting

The Auto MCACC feature (see page 23) 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 32 for more on this.

Speaker distance setting

The Auto MCACC feature (see page 23) 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

buttons to select DISTANCE, then

press ENTER.

 

 

3

Use

to select a speaker;

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 0.3 m to 9.0 m.

4Press ENTER when you’re finished.

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

Note

1 There are other settings you can adjust from the Setup menu; these are explained in Listening to the radio on page 29 and Additional informa- tion on page 37.

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