Pioneer Your Guide to Setting Up Surround Sound with VSX-518

06The System Setup menu

•Surround (S) – Select LARGE if your surround speakers reproduce bass frequencies effectively. Select SMALL to send bass frequencies to the other speakers or subwoofer. If you didn’t connect surround speakers choose NO (the sound of the surround channels is sent to the other speakers).

•Subwoofer (SW) – LFE signals and bass frequencies of channels set to SMALL are

output from the subwoofer when YES is selected.1 Choose the PLUS setting if you want the subwoofer to output bass sound continuously or you want deeper bass (the bass frequencies that would normally come out the front and center speakers are also routed to the subwoofer). If you did not connect a subwoofer choose NO (the bass is output from other speakers).

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• Default setting: 100Hz

This setting decides the cutoff between bass sounds playing back from the speakers selected as LARGE, or the subwoofer, and bass sounds playing back from those selected as SMALL.2 It also decides where the cutoff will be for bass sounds in the LFE channel.

1 Select ‘X.OVER’ from the SP SETUP menu.

2 Use	to choose the frequency
cutoff point.

Frequencies below the cutoff point will be sent to the subwoofer (or LARGE speakers).

Channel level

Using these settings, you can adjust the overall balance of your speaker system.

1	Select CH LEVEL from the SP SETUP menu.
2	Use	to select a setup option.

•T. TONE M. – Move the test tone manually from speaker to speaker and adjust individual channel levels.

•T. TONE A. – Adjust channel levels as the test tone moves from speaker to speaker automatically.

3 Confirm your selected setup option.

The test tones will start after you press ENTER.3

4Adjust the level of each channel using

.

If you selected T. TONE M., use	to switch
speakers.

The T. TONE A. setup outputs test tones in the following order (depends on speaker settings):

L C R RS LS SW

Adjust the level of each speaker as the test tone is emitted.4

Speaker Distance

For good sound depth and separation from your system, you need to specify the distance of your speakers from the listening position. The receiver can then add the proper delay needed for effective surround sound.

1 Select ‘SP DISTN.’ from the SP SETUP menu.

Note

1If you can’t get good bass results, listen to the bass response with the subwoofer set to PLUS and YES or the front speakers set to LARGE and SMALL alternatively and let your ears judge which sounds best. If you’re having problems, the easiest option is to route all the bass sounds to the subwoofer by selecting SMALL for the front speakers.

2For more on selecting the speaker sizes, see Speaker setting above.

3After the volume increases to the reference level, test tones will be output.

4• If you are using a Sound Pressure Level (SPL) meter, take the readings from your main listening position and adjust the level of each speaker to 75 dB SPL (C-weighting/slow reading).

•The subwoofer test tone is output at low volumes. You may need to adjust the level after testing with an actual soundtrack.

•You can change the channel levels at any time by using CH SEL and LEVEL+/– on the remote control. You can set two channel levels: one for DVD 5.1 and one for the listening modes.

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