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Multi-Channel Surround Setup

Depending on the shape of your room (etc.), you may wish to place the rear speakers behind you instead of on the side walls. One advantage of this placement is that you can use a pair of large floor standing speakers matching your front speakers.

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A A

45°

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Note

If you place the rear speakers behind you, be sure to check the speaker location setting in the SPEAKER SETUP menu when using sound fields from the VIRTUAL 3D genre (see pages 15 and 26, 27 for details).

Specifying the speaker types

1Press 1/uto turn on the receiver.

2Press SET UP to display “SPEAKER SETUP”.

3

Press the cursor buttons (

or

) to select the

 

parameter you want to adjust.

 

4

Press the cursor buttons (

or

) to select setting

 

you desire. The setting is entered automatically.

5Repeat steps 3 and 4 until you have set all of the parameters that follow.

pFront speaker size (FRONT)

Initial setting : LARGE

• If you connect large speakers that will effectively reproduce bass frequencies, select “LARGE”. Normally, select “LARGE”.

• If the sound is distorted, or you feel a lack of surround effects when using multi-channel surround sound, select “SMALL” to activate the bass redirection circuitry and output the front channel bass frequencies from the sub woofer.

• When the front speaker is set to “SMALL”, the center and rear speakers are also automatically set to “SMALL” (unless previously set to “NO”).

pCenter speaker size (CENTER)

Initial setting : LARGE

•If you a connect large speaker that will effectively reproduce bass frequencies, select “LARGE”. Normally, select “LARGE”. However, if the front speakers are set to “SMALL”, you cannot set the center speaker to “LARGE”.

•If the sound is distorted, or you feel a lack of surround effects when using multi-channel surround sound, select “SMALL” to activate the bass redirection circuitry and output the center channel bass frequencies from the front speakers (if set to “LARGE”) or sub woofer. *1

•If you do not connect the center speaker, select “NO”. The sound of the center channel will be output from the front speakers.*2

pRear speaker size (REAR)

Initial setting : LARGE

• If you connect large speakers that will effectively reproduce bass frequencies, select “LARGE”. Normally, select “LARGE”. However, if the front speakers are set to “SMALL”, you cannot set the rear speakers to “LARGE”.

• If the sound is distorted, or you feel a lack of surround effects when using multi-channel surround sound, select “SMALL” to activate the bass redirection circuitry and output the rear channel bass frequencies from the sub woofer or other “LARGE” speakers.

• If you do not connect rear speakers, select “NO”.*3

z*1~*3 correspond to the following Dolby Pro Logic modes

*1 NORMAL *2 PHANTOM *3 3 STEREO

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