Using the main menu screen – Arcam AV8 PReamp Processor E-2 User Manual

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INFO

Press this button on the remote once to display the local OSD report
on source inputs and processing mode. The display times out after
about three seconds.

SYN

Delays may be introduced into the video signal by external video
processing equipment which causes a mismatch between the audio
and video timing. You will notice this by speech sound being out of
synchronisation with the lip movements in the video.
To compensate for this you can adjust the lip sync audio delay. Press

SYN

and use the

navigation buttons to change the delay. Press

SYN

again to exit the lip sync function.

DISPLAY

This allows you to select the illumination level of the front panel display.
Press

DISPLAY

on the front panel or

DIS

on the remote to cycle through

the settings Off/Dim/Bright.

TRIM

This allows temporary adjustment of the speaker levels. Press

TRM

access the OSD ‘Speaker Trims’ menu, using the navigation buttons to
adjust the levels required. Press again to exit the trim function. As this is
a temporary adjustment, the trim levels are reset to 0 when the unit is
turned off or the selected input is changed, but are retained if the unit
is put in standby. These temporary trim levels are independent of the
‘Level Settings’ page found in the Setup Menu.

USING THE MAIN MENU SCREEN

Three Main Menu screens allow day-to-day changes to be made to the
way the AV8 operates. Examples include adjusting the tone control for
a particular input, recording one source while listening to another or
configuring the headphone output.
The three Main menu screens are available on your display device. The
selected line of each screen is also displayed on the front panel of the
AV8. Each of the following sections has a picture showing the screen
that is displayed as you move through the menus.

USING THE REMOTE CONTROL

Briefly press the

button to enter ‘Main Menu Screen 1’. Use

the navigation

and

buttons to go up and down the menu

respectively. The

and

buttons are used to alter the selection

on the highlighted line, or to change to the next screen if the menu
heading is highlighted.

USING THE FRONT PANEL

Press the

button to enter the main menu. To cycle through the

items on a menu, use the

EFFECT

button to go down and

MODE

button to go up one line for each press. Use the volume control knob
for the

and

functions in order

to cycle through the available choices,

or to change the menu page if the menu heading is highlighted.

MAIN MENU SCREEN 1

Main Menu Screen 1

Vol:----------I------- +0

Preset: Preset 1

Audio Input: DVD

Video Input: DVD

Video Type: 4:3

Stereo Direct: Off

Bass: THX

Treble: THX

Balance: THX

Vol: Shows the present volume being used for the main zone and can
be adjusted from here.
Preset: Cycles through user setup presets 1 to 5. These presets may
have customised names. (See ‘Advanced Setup’.)
Audio Input: This shows the current audio input source selected. The
current audio input can be changed when this line is highlighted using
the source select buttons on the front panel or the remote.
Changing the audio input also changes the video input to the same
setting.
Video Input: This shows the current video input source selected. The
current video input can be changed when this line is highlighted using
the source select buttons on the front panel or the remote.
Changing the video input does not change the audio input, so you can
watch a different input from the one you are listening to.
If the audio and video are set to different inputs, they will be reset to be
the same when the audio input is next changed. However it is possible
to set the AV8 so that they remain separated in the ‘Video Settings’ in
the Setup Menu.
For example, you may wish to watch a sports event from satellite but
wish to listen to the commentary from a radio broadcast.
Video Type: This line is only present if SCART mode has been set in
the ‘General Settings’ in the Setup Menu. It shows the video aspect ratio
currently selected on the display. It can be set manually to

4:3 or 16:9,

depending on which format you are feeding into the unit.