Polk Audio CHT400 manual Surroundbar Speaker Set-Up, Set Your Receiver’S “Speaker Set-Up Menu”

SURROUNDBAR SPEAKER SET-UP

Connect your SurroundBar 500 CHT or 400 CHT system to your surround sound receiver/processor referring to the hookup instructions on pages 6 - 10.

Do not use the “Auto Setup” feature if it is included in your receiver. Because the SurroundBar produces surround sound from a single front-mounted speaker, the auto setup feature will not operate properly.

SET YOUR RECEIVER’S “SPEAKER SET-UP MENU”

For best music and movie sound quality performance in typical rooms:

1.Connect a single RCA cable from the “SUBOUT” of your receiver to the LFE input of the subwoofer. This connecting method bypasses the subwoofer’s internal filter and relies on the filter built into your receiver.

NOTE: Make no other signal connections. Do not use speaker wire to make the connection to the subwoofer.

2.In your receiver’s Speaker Set-up Menu, set subwoofer to “YES.”

3.Set the subwoofer crossover frequency to 100Hz.

NOTE: For high listening levels in large rooms set crossover frequency to 150Hz or higher.

4.Set Left and Right speaker channels to “SMALL.”

5.Set Center and Surround channels to “SMALL.”

6.In the receiver’s “Speaker Distance” Set-up Menu, select the same distance for all channels corresponding to the distance of the primary seating area to the loudspeaker. If your receiver or processor uses a “channel delay” setup function that requires a delay-time entry, use

the minimum setting (in milliseconds) that it allows for the center and surround channels.

7.Surround Sound settings: Dolby® Digital or DTS on all 5.1 channel programming; DTS-HD, Dolby Digital EX or Dolby Digital PLIIx for all 7.1 channel programming.

Note: For 2 channel sources such as stereo music and some television programs, you may wish to use Dolby PLIIx or PLII. These processing algorithms deliver 7.1 and 5.1 surround sound from stereo content.

Set Channel Levels:

1.Set Front Left, Center and Front Right to “Zero” (0dB).

2.Set Surround Left and Surround Right levels to a minimum of +3dB. Don’t hesitate to set to +6dB or higher depending on the listening environment, the program material and your personal taste.

3.For a 7.1 system, set Surround Back Left and Surround Back Right surround levels to 0dB or 3dB lower than Surround Left and Surround Right levels.

4.Adjust channel levels to suit your listening environment, the program material and your personal taste. If you find TV/movie dialogue hard to understand, increase the center channel level to your liking.

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