06Listening to your system

Listening with MCACC Effect

Listen to sound using the corrected acoustic field settings obtained by MCACC.

1

SOUND Press to open the sound menu.

 

ENTER

2

Select ‘MCACC Effect’ then press ENTER.

 

ENTER

3

Switch ’MCACC On’ or ‘MCACC Off’ then

press ENTER to confirm.

When MCACC Effect is off, equalization, channel delay, channel level and standing wave are set to off.

When MCACC Effect is off, the channel delay and channel level can be adjusted manually and the settings stored separately from when MCACC Effect is on.

MCACC Effect is set to on automatically after Auto MCACC setup is used.

Adjusting the bass and treble

Use the bass and treble controls to adjust the overall tone.

1

SOUND Press to open the sound menu.

 

ENTER

2

Select ‘Tone’ then press ENTER.1

 

ENTER

3

Select ‘Bass/Treble’ then press ENTER.

Selecting Bass/Treble cancels the Midnight, Loudness and Quiet listening modes. These modes cannot be used at the same time.

 

ENTER

 

4

Use the

buttons to select ‘Bass’ or

’Treble’; use the

buttons to adjust the sound

then press ENTER to confirm.

Bass and Treble can be adjusted from -6dBto +6dB.

When the Bass or Treble is set to something other than 0dB, the TONE indicator lights.

Using Midnight, Loudness and Quiet

 

listening modes

Adjusting sound delay

The Midnight listening feature allows you to hear effective surround sound of movies at low volume levels.

The Loudness listening feature can be used to get good bass and treble from music sources at low volume levels.

The Quiet listening feature reduces excessive bass or treble in a sound source.

1

SOUND Press to open the sound menu.

 

ENTER

2

Select ‘Tone’ then press ENTER.1

 

ENTER

3

Select ‘Midnight’, ‘Loudness’ or ‘Quiet’

then press ENTER to confirm.2

To cancel the Midnight, Loudness or Quiet listening modes, select Bass/Treble.

Some monitors have a slight delay when showing video, so the soundtrack will be slightly out of sync with the picture. By adding a bit of delay, you can adjust the sound to match the presentation of the video.

There are a total of 60 steps (levels) that you can adjust, with a total range of 200 msec.

1

SOUND Press to open the sound menu.

 

ENTER

2

Select ‘Sound Delay’ then press ENTER.

 

ENTER

3

Select the length of the delay in sound,

then press ENTER to confirm.

This option is deactivated and not displayed if you have AutoDelay set to On in HDMI Setup (see Setting the Auto Delay on page 46).

Note

1While playing back DTS-HD (over 88.2 kHz) or Dolby TrueHD (over 88.2 kHz) audio streams, you cannot select Tone if a mode other than Bass/ Treble is selected.

2While playing back DTS-HD (over 88.2 kHz) or Dolby TrueHD (over 88.2 kHz) audio streams, you cannot select a mode other than Bass/Treble.

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Pioneer SX-LX70SW manual Listening to your system Listening with Mcacc Effect, Adjusting the bass and treble

SX-LX70SW specifications

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