Pioneer VSX-C300-S manual Personalizing Your Surround Sound, Fine Tuning Your Surround Sound

Fine Tuning Your Surround Sound

Personalizing Your Surround Sound

This receiver will make the necessary speakers settings automatically so you can use it to get enjoyable sur- round sound without doing anything, but making more exact settings here will give you finer surround sound.

For better surround sound complete the instructions that follow the speaker settings. Use the first three steps on this page and continue on page 26. In this way you can get maximum performance out of the receiver.

You only need to do these settings once (unless you change the placement of your current speaker system or add new speakers, etc.). The following pages offer a more detailed description of the settings available for each mode. The default setting is also shown on each page.

1	RECEIVER	DVD	INPUT
			SELECT
	TV/SAT	VCR	REMOTE	MASTER
			SETUP	VOLUME
2	TUNER	FRONT	DISPLAY MUTING
	RECEIVER	TV	TV CONTROL
	TV	INPUT SELECT CHANNEL VOLUME

4	SOURCE		BAND	CLASS		EDIT
			7	8		3
			S	M		L
	DISPLAY			ROOM SETUP		TOP MENU
			TUNE
6	CH.	ST		ST
	SELECT					CH.
			ENTER			LEVEL
	AUDIO					MENU	3
			TUNE
	TEST TONE
	SEARCH		RF ATT	MPX	D.ACCESS

3Press @ or # to select the mode you want to set.

For best results, start with “SPEAKERS setting mode” and make your initial adjustments in the order described below.

The current settings are displayed automatically.

•SPEAKERS (Front, Center, Surround) setting mode (page 26)

Use to specify the size and configuration of the speakers you have connected.

•SUBWOOFER ON/PLUS/OFF setting mode (page 26) Use to specify if the subwoofer is set to on, plus or off.

•Crossover frequency setting mode (page 26) Use to determine at which frequency the bass tones will be sent to the subwoofer (or “Large” speakers).

•LFE (Low Frequency Effects) attenuator setting mode (page 27)

Use to lower the level for the LFE channel (a special bass channel) when the LFE level is so high as to distort.

•FRONT speakers distance setting mode (page 27) Use to specify the distance from your listening position to your front speaker.

•CENTER speakers distance setting mode (page 27) Use to specify the distance from your listening position to your center speaker.

•SURROUND speakers distance setting mode (page 28)

Use to specify the distance from your listening position to your surround speakers.

•Dynamic range control setting mode (page 28) Use to compress the dynamic range of a Dolby Digital soundtrack with this feature (for non-Dolby Digital soundtracks use the Midnight mode for the same effect).

•Dual mono setting (page 28)

Use with soundtracks that have dual mono encoding if you want to isolate one channel to a particular speaker.

•Input Attenuator setting (page 28)

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1	¡ 4 ¢			Use to reduce the analog input level coming into the
DIMMER	FLAT	QUIET	S.BASS
1	2	3	4	receiver when it is so loud as to make it distort.

VIRTUAL 5-D GAME TV SURR.

5	6	7	8
PHONES	MUSICAL DRAMA ACTION
SURR.
9	0	+10	ENTER

STEREO STANDARD AUTO MIDNGHT

2ch MULTI 2/MULTI

AUDIO/VIDEOPRE-PROGRAMMED

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1Press RECEIVER to turn the power on.

The STANDBY indicator goes out.

2Press RECEIVER.

This button switches the remote to the receiver control mode.

4Press % or fi to select the setting you want.

The setting is entered automatically.

5Repeat steps 3 and 4 to set other surround setting modes.

6Press ENTER to exit the setting mode.

MEMO:

The setting mode is automatically exited if no operation is performed within 20 seconds.

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