Pioneer VSX-AX5Ai-S, VSX-AX5Ai-G manual Crossover Network, Fine Channel Level, Advanced setup

Advanced setup 11

Crossover Network

• Default setting: 80Hz

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. It also decides where the cutoff will be for bass sounds in the LFE channel.

Note

•For more on selecting the speaker sizes, see Normal surround setting on page 55.

•You don’t need to set the crossover frequency if all speakers are set to LARGE.

1Select ‘Crossover Network’ from the Expert setup menu.

Expert

[ Crossover Network ]

[ Fine Channel Level ]

[ Fine Channel Delay ]

[ Acoustic Cal EQ	]
[ Bass Peak Level	]
[ D-Range Control	]
[ Exit	]

2Choose the frequency cutoff point. Frequencies below the cutoff point will be sent to the subwoofer (or LARGE speakers).

Crossover Network				Crossover Network
Frequency	[		]	Frequency	[		]
		50Hz				50Hz
	[	80Hz	]		[	80Hz	]
	[ 100Hz ]				[ 100Hz ]
	[ 150Hz ]				[ 150Hz ]
	[ 200Hz ]				[ 200Hz ]
	[ Exit ]				[ Exit ]
(THX Speaker	=	80Hz)		(THX Speaker	=	80Hz)

Fine Channel Level

• Default setting: 0dB (all channels)

You can achieve better surround sound by properly adjusting the overall balance of your speaker system. The following setting can help you make detailed adjustments that you may not achieve using the Normal surround setting on page 55.

1Select ‘Fine Channel Level’ from the Expert setup menu.

The volume increases to the 0dB reference level.

Caution

• After pressing ENTER, loud test tones will be output.

Expert			Fine Channel	Level
[ Crossover Network		]
[	Fine Channel Level	]	Please	Wait
[ Fine Channel Delay ]			Caution!!
[ Acoustic Cal EQ		]
[ Bass Peak Level		]	Test tone	is
[ D-Range Control		]	output loudly.
[ Exit		]

2 Adjust the level of the left channel.

This will be the reference speaker level, so you may want to keep the level around 0dB so that you’ll have plenty of room to adjust the other speaker levels.

Fine Channel Level

Left [ +10. 0dB ]

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

3Select each channel in turn and adjust the levels (+/– 10dB) as necessary.

Use (cursor up/down) to adjust the volume of the speaker you selected to match the front left (reference) speaker. When it sounds like both tones are the same volume, press ENTER to confirm and continue to the next channel.

Fine Channel		Level
STD:Left		+10. 0dB
Right		[		]
			+10. 0dB
Center		[	+10. 0dB	]
Surround	L	[+10. 0dB]
Surround		[+10. 0dB]
	R
SurrBack		[+10. 0dB]
	L
SurrBack		[+10. 0dB]
	R
Subwoofer		[+10. 0dB]
[ Exit ]

• If you want to go back and adjust a channel, simply

use (cursor up/down) to select it.

4When you're finished, select ‘Exit’. You will return to the Expert setup menu.

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