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The System Setup and Other Setup menus

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• Surr – Select LARGE if your surround speakers

reproduce bass frequencies effectively. Select

SMALL to send bass frequencies to the other

speakers or subwoofer. If you didn’t connect

surround speakers choose NO (the sound of the

surround channels is sent to the front speakers or a

subwoofer).

• SB – Select the number of surround back speakers

you have (one, two or none).

Select LARGEx2 or

LARGEx1 if your surround back speakers reproduce

bass frequencies effectively. Select SMALLx2 or

SMALLx1 to send bass frequencies to the other

speakers or subwoofer. If you didn’t connect

surround back speakers choose NO.

• SW – LFE signals and bass frequencies of channels

set to SMALL are output from the subwoofer when

YES is selected. Choose the PLUS setting if you want

the subwoofer to output bass sound continuously or

you want deeper bass (the bass frequencies that

would normally come out the front and center

speakers are also routed to the subwoofer).

If you did

not connect a subwoofer choose NO (the bass

frequencies are output from other speakers).

3 Select ‘

X. OVER

’ and set the crossover frequency.

Frequencies below this point will be sent to the

subwoofer (or LARGE speakers).

4 When you’re finished, press

RETURN

You will return to the Manual SP Setup menu.

Channel Level

Using the channel level settings, you can adjust the

overall balance of your speaker system, an important

factor when setting up a home theater system.

1 Select ‘

Channel Level

’ from the

Manual SP Setup

menu.

2 Select a setup option.

• MANUAL – Move the test tone manually from

speaker to speaker and adjust individual channel

levels.

• AUTO – Adjust channel levels as the test tone moves

from speaker to speaker automatically.

3 Confirm your selected setup option.

The test tones will start after you press ENTER.

4 Adjust the level of each channel using

/

If you selected MANUAL, use / to switch speakers.

The AUTO setup will output test tones in the order shown

on-screen:

Adjust the level of each speaker as the test tone is

emitted.

5 When you’re finished, press

RETURN

You will return to the Manual SP Setup menu.

Tip

• You can change the channel levels by set the remote

control to the receiver operation mode, then press CH

LEVEL, and then using / on the remote control.

Speaker Distance

For good sound depth and separation from your system,

you need to specify the distance of your speakers from

the listening position. The receiver can then add the

proper delay needed for effective surround sound.

1 Select ‘

Speaker Distance

’ from the

Manual SP

Setup

menu.

2 Adjust the distance of each speaker using

/

You can adjust the distance of each speaker in 0.01 m

Increments.

3 When you’re finished, press

RETURN

You will return to the Manual SP Setup menu.

Tip

• For best surround sound, make sure the surround

back speakers are the same distance from the

listening position.

Note

1 • If you selected ZONE 2 or Front Bi-Amp (in Speaker system setting on page 111) you can’t adjust the surround back settings.

• If the surround speakers are set to NO, the surround back speakers will automatically be set to NO.

2 If you have a subwoofer and like lots of bass, it may seem logical to select LARGE for your front speakers and PLUS for the subwoofer. This

may not, however, yield the best bass results. Depending on the speaker placement of your room you may actually experience a decrease in

the amount of bass due low frequency cancellations. In this case, try changing the position or direction of speakers. If you can’t get good

results, listen to the bass response with it set to PLUS and YES or the front speakers set to LARGE and SMALL alternatively and let your ears

judge which sounds best. If you’re having problems, the easiest option is to route all the bass sounds to the subwoofer by selecting SMALL

for the front speakers.

3 • 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.

• With Full Auto MCACC Setup or Auto MCACC Setup (ALL or Speaker Setting), the setting here will not apply and the crossover frequency

will be automatically set. Crossover frequency is a frequency aimed at achieving the optimal sound field taking into account the bass capacity

of all connected speakers and human aural characteristics.

• If you’re using THX speakers, confirm that the crossover frequency is set to 80Hz.

4 If you are using a Sound Pressure Level (SPL) meter, take the readings from your main listening position and adjust the level of each speaker

to 75 dB SPL (C-weighting/slow reading).

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