Pioneer VSX-59TXi operating instructions Surround Setup menu, Speaker Systems

07The Surround Setup menu

•Channel Level – Adjust the overall balance of your speaker system (page 60).

•Speaker Distance – Specify the distance of your speakers from the listening position (page 61).

•Acoustic Cal EQ – Adjust overall equalization depending on your room characteristics (page 61).

•X-Curve– Adjust the amount of ‘re-equalization’ necessary to achieve a flat frequency response from your home theater system (page 65).

5Make the adjustments necessary for each setting, pressing ENTER to confirm after each screen. When you’re finished, you can check through your settings screen by screen by selecting Check from the Surround Setup menu (see Checking your surround settings on page 66 for more on this).

Speaker Systems

You need to specify the number of speakers you have in your system, and how you want to route the sound. It is a good idea to make sure that the settings made in Introduction to home theater on page 39 are correct.

1 Select ‘Speaker Systems’ then press ENTER.

2.Surround Setup

[ Check ]

[ 1.Speaker Systems ] [ 2.Channel Level ]

[ 3.Speaker Distance ] [ 4.Acoustic Cal EQ ] [ 5.X-Curve ]

[Return]

2Select how you want to set up your speakers then press ENTER.

2.1. Speaker Systems

[Manual Free]

[Manual THX]

(all small)

[Auto]

[Return]

•Manual Free – Manually set all speakers.

•Manual THX – All speakers are set to SMALL. You can only select the number of surround back speakers.

•Auto – All speakers are set automatically. (The microphone must be hooked up to the front panel to do this.)

3 Specify how your speakers are configured.

		2.1.Speaker Systems
				Manual Free
		Speaker System Select
		[			]
			Normal Surround
			SP_B:
		[		Second Zone ]
		[		Next]
Use	(cursor left/right) to cycle through the
following options:

•Normal Surround – Select for normal home theater use.

•Front Bi-Amp– Select this setting if you’re bi- amping your front speakers (see Bi-amping your front speakers on page 81).

•Bi-Surround– Select if you’re using two sets of surround speakers (see Adding a second set of surround speakers for Bi-Surroundon page 82).

If you selected Normal Surround, you’ll also have to select the speaker system B setting:

2.1.Speaker Systems Manual Free

Speaker System Select

[Normal Surround ]

SP_B:

[ Second Zone ]

[Next]

•Second Zone – Select if you want to hear speaker system B in a separate room.

•ITU-R– Select this setting to use two switchable main speaker systems using speaker system B (see Alternating surround speaker setups using speaker system B (ITU-R)on page 80).

•OFF – Select if no speakers are connected to the B terminals.

4Press ENTER to go to the next screen.

•If you selected Auto in step 2, you will have to select Next and then press ENTER to continue to the auto (test tone) setup.

Select Start and press ENTER to start the test tones when you’ve made sure the room is free of ambient noise. Go to step 8 when you see OK appear on the OSD.

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