Pioneer VSX-AX5Ai-G, VSX-AX5Ai-S manual 07The Surround Setup menu, Channel Level

07The Surround Setup menu

Use (cursor up/down) to select the size (and number) of each of the following speakers:

•Front – Select LARGE if your front speakers reproduce bass frequencies effectively, or if you didn’t connect a subwoofer. Select SMALL to send the bass frequencies to the subwoofer.

•Center – Select LARGE if your center speaker reproduces bass frequencies effectively, or select SMALL to send bass frequencies to the other speakers or subwoofer. If you didn’t connect a center speaker, choose NO (the center channel is sent to the front speakers).

•Surround – 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 front speakers or a subwoofer).

•SurrBack – Select the number of surround back speakers you have (one, two or none). Select LARGE if your surround back speakers reproduce bass frequencies effectively. Select SMALL to send bass frequencies to the other speakers or subwoofer. If you didn’t connect surround back speakers choose NO.

•Subwoofer – LFE signals and bass frequencies of channels set to SMALL are output from the subwoofer when YES is selected (see notes below). 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 frequencies are output from other speakers).

Note

•If you selected Second Zone, Front Bi-Amp, or MR&S in Surround back speaker setting above you can’t adjust the surround back settings.

•If you select SMALL for the front speakers the subwoofer will automatically be fixed to YES. Also, the center and surround speakers can’t be set to LARGE if the front speakers are set to SMALL. In this case, all bass frequencies are sent to the subwoofer.

•If the surround speakers are set to NO, the surround back speakers will automatically be set to NO.

•If you select one surround back speaker only, make sure that speaker is hooked up to the left surround back terminal.

•If you’re using a THX speaker setup, we recommend setting all speakers to SMALL.

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3When you're finished, select ‘Exit’. You will return to the Normal setup menu.

Tip

•If you have a subwoofer and like lots of bass, it may seem logical to select LARGE for your front speakers and PLUS for the subwoofer. This may not, however, yield the best bass results. Depending on the speaker placement of your room you may actually experience a decrease in the amount of bass due to low frequency cancellations. In this case, try changing the position or direction of speakers. If you can’t get good results, listen to the bass response with it 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.

Channel Level

• Default setting: 0dB (all speakers)

Using the channel level setting, you can adjust the overall balance of your speaker system, an important factor when setting up a home theater system.

1Select ‘Channel Level’ from the Normal setup menu.

Normal
[ Speaker Setting		]
[	Channel Level	]
[ Speaker Distance ]
[ Exit		]

2Select a setup option and press ENTER to start the test tones.

Channel Level
Test Tone	[ Manual ]
	[	Auto	]
	[	Exit	]

Setting Start

Caution!!

Test tone is output loudly.

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

•Auto – Adjust channel levels as the test tone moves from speaker to speaker automatically.

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