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The System Setup menu

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Tip

• 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 to 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.

Crossover Network

• Default setting:

80Hz

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.

1

1

Select ‘Crossover Network’ from the Manual SP

Setup menu.

2

Choose the frequency cutoff point.

Frequencies below the cutoff point will be sent to the
subwoofer (or

LARGE speakers).

3

When you’re finished, press RETURN.

You 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.

2

5

When you’re finished, press RETURN.

You return to the Manual SP Setup menu.

Tip

• You can change the channel levels at any time by

using

EFFECT/CH SEL and +/– on the remote control.

You can set two channel levels: one for

MULTI CH IN

and one for the listening modes.

Note

1 • For more on selecting the speaker sizes, see

Speaker Setting above.

• If you’re using a THX speaker setup, confirm that the crossover frequency is set to

80Hz.

4.Manual SP Setup

:Return

a.Speaker Setting

b.Crossover Network

c.Channel Level
d.Speaker Distance
e.THX Audio Setting
f.THX Speaker Setup

4b.Crossover Network

:Finish

Frequency

80Hz

( THX : 80Hz )

2 • 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).

• The subwoofer test tone is output at low volumes. You may need to adjust the level after testing with an actual soundtrack.

4.Manual SP Setup

:Return

a.Speaker Setting
b.Crossover Network

c.Channel Level

d.Speaker Distance
e.THX Audio Setting
f.THX Speaker Setup

4c.Channel Level

Test Tone

Manual

:Cancel

ENTER:Next

4c.Channel Level

Test Tone

[ Manual ]

Please Wait . . .

20


Caution!
Loud test tones
will be output.

:Cancel

4c.Channel Level

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:Finish

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