Pioneer XV-DV525, XW-DV525, S-DV525 Getting started Home theater sound setup, Using the Room Setup

03Getting started

Home theater sound setup

After setting up your front speakers as shown below, refer to the supplied setup guide, or Using the wireless speaker system on page 27 for more wireless speaker placement options.

•Standard surround setup – This is a standard multichannel surround sound speaker setup.

Front left Center Front right

Subwoofer

Listening position

Wireless speaker

The following speaker placement options are only possible if you have connected a pair of speakers (not supplied) to the surround speaker terminals (refer to the setup guide to do this) and you are using the the wireless speaker as a second stereo system (see Using the wireless speaker system on page 27 for more on this).

•Standard surround 5-spot setup – Provides enveloping surround sound by using additional surround speakers.

Front left	Center	Front right
	Subwoofer
Listening position
Surround		Surround
left		right

•Front surround 3-spot setup – See Using Front Surround on page 31 for more on this.

			Center
Surround		Front				Surround
				Subwoofer Front
	left	left			right	right
(not supplied)						(not supplied)

Listening position

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Using the Room Setup

After you have set up your speakers to your liking (see Home theater sound setup above), make sure you calibrate your system for surround sound. This is a quick and easy way to get good surround sound for your room.

For a more detailed surround sound setup, see Using the System Setup menu on page 50.

1If the system isn’t already on, press STANDBY/ON to switch it on.

2Press ROOM SETUP.

•If you have previously set up the room type and seating position, the display will show the current room settings.

3Press ENTER.

4 Use the (cursor up/down) buttons to select a room type then press ENTER.

Choose one of the following:

•S – Smaller than average room

•M – Average room

•L – Larger than average room

5 Use the (cursor up/down) buttons to select a seating position. Press ENTER.

Choose one of the following depending on where your main listening position is:

•Fwd – If you are nearer to the front speakers than the surround speakers

•Mid – If you are equal distance from the front and surround speakers

•Back – If you are nearer to the surround speakers than the front speakers

Note

•The Room Setup automatically sets up both channel level and channel delay. If you have already set the channel levels manually (see Setting the channel levels on page 52), you will see Room Set? in the display when you first press the ROOM SETUP button.

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