Operation – Harman-Kardon AVR 630 User Manual

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OPERATION

30 OPERATION

• To temporarily silence all speaker outputs, press the

Mute Button

. This will interrupt the out-

put to all speakers and the headphone jack, but it
will not affect any recording or dubbing that may be
in progress. When the system is muted, the word
MUTE will flash in the on-screen display and
Upper Display Line

#, press the Mute Buttons

again to return to normal operation.

• The unit’s tone controls may be taken out of the

signal path by pressing the Tone Mode Button on
the front panel

C or the remote

V. The first

press of either button will show a message in the
on-screen display and Lower Display Line

with the current status of the tone controls. The sys-
tem default is

TONE IN, which indicates that

the bass and treble controls are active. Press the

⁄

Navigation Button

o on the remote or

the

‹

›

Button

H on the front panel to change

the setting to

TONE OUT, which is “flat”

response without the tone controls being active.

• When the tone controls are active, the amount of

bass and treble boost/cut may be adjusted by first
pressing the Tone Mode Button on the front panel
C or the remote

V two or three times until the

desired setting (

BASS MODE or TREBLE

MODE) appears in the on-screen display and the
Lower Display Line

$. Next, use the

⁄

Navigation Button

o on the remote or the

‹

›

Button on the front panel

H to change the setting

as desired. The unit will return to normal operation
within five seconds after the setting is changed.

• For private listening, simply place a standard

1/4" stereo headphone plug or adaptor into the
Headphone Jack

B behind the door 9 on the

front panel. The speakers will automatically mute
and a two-channel stereo signal will be sent to the
headphones. The Lower Display Line

$ will read

DOLBY H: BP, indicating that the headphone
output is in the Bypass mode, and to confirm that
no processing is being used.

• When the headphones are in use, you may take

advantage of the Dolby Headphone modes to bring
added spaciousness to headphone listening. Press
the Dolby Mode Select Button

g or the

Surround Mode Selector

3 to cycle through the

three Dolby Headphone modes to select the one
that you prefer.

Surround Mode Selection

One of the most important features of the AVR 630
is its ability to reproduce a full multichannel surround
sound field from digital sources, analog matrix
surround-encoded programs and standard stereo
programs.

Selection of a surround mode is based on personal
taste, as well as the type of program source material
being used. For example, motion pictures or TV pro-
grams bearing the logo of one of the major surround-
encoding processes, such as Dolby Surround or DTS
Stereo may be played in either the Dolby Digital,
Dolby Pro Logic II Cinema, DTS Neo:6 Cinema, or
Logic 7 Cinema surround modes, depending on the
source material.

NOTE: Once a program has been encoded with matrix
surround information, it retains the surround information
as long as the program is broadcast in stereo. Thus,
movies with surround sound may be decoded via any
of the analog surround modes such as Pro Logic II
Cinema, Logic 7 Cinema or DTS Neo:6 Cinema, when
they are broadcast via conventional TV stations, cable,
pay-TV and satellite transmission. In addition, a growing
number of made-for-television programs, sports broad-
casts, radio dramas and music CDs are also recorded in
surround sound. You may view a list of these programs
at the Dolby Laboratories Web site at www.dolby.com.

Even when a program is not listed as carrying intentional
surround information, you may find that the Pro Logic II,
Logic 7 Enhanced or DTS Neo:6, VMAx and the Hall or
Theater modes often deliver enveloping surround pre-
sentations through the use of the natural information
present in all stereo recordings.

Surround modes may be changed at any time by
using either the front panel or remote control. To
select a new surround mode from the front panel, first
press the Surround Mode Group Selector Button
2 until the desired major surround mode group such
as Dolby, DTS or Logic 7 is selected. Next, press the
Surround Mode Selector Button

3 to choose the

specific individual surround mode.

To select a surround mode using the remote, press
the button for the major surround mode group that
includes the mode you wish to choose from: Dolby
g, DTS Digital f, DTS Neo:6 e, Logic 7
h, Stereo

d or DSP Surround g. The first

press of the button will show the current mode from
that group if it is already in use, or the first available
mode if you are currently using another mode. To
cycle through the available modes in that group,
press the button again until the desired mode appears
in the Lower Display Line

$ and the on-screen

display and in the front-panel Surround Mode
Indicators

The Dolby Digital, Dolby Digital EX, DTS 5.1, DTS-ES
Matrix and DTS-ES Discrete modes may only be
selected when a digital input is in use. In addition,
when a digital source is present, the AVR 630 will
automatically select and switch to the correct mode,

regardless of the mode that has been previously
selected. For more information on selecting digital
sources, see the Digital Audio Playback section below.

When the 6-Channel/8-Channel direct inputs are in
use, there is no surround processing, as these inputs
take the analog output signals from an optional, exter-
nal DVD-Audio or SACD player, or another source
device and carry them straight through to the volume
control without any further digital processing.

To listen to a program in traditional two-channel
stereo, using the front left and front right speakers
only (plus the subwoofer, if installed and configured),
press the Stereo Mode Select Button

until

SURROUND OFF appears in the Lower Display
Line

$. From the front panel, press the Surround

Mode Group Selector

2 until the Stereo modes

appear in the on-screen display and Lower Display
Line

$. Next, press the Surround Mode Selector

Button

3 until SURROUND OFF appears in

the on-screen display and Lower Display Line

Digital Audio Playback

Digital audio is a major advancement over older analog
surround processing systems. It delivers up to six dis-
crete channels, and each channel reproduces full fre-
quency range (20Hz to 20kHz) and offers dramatically
improved dynamic range and significant improvements to
signal-to-noise ratios. In addition, digital systems have the
capability to deliver an additional channel that is specifi-
cally devoted to low-frequency information. This is the
“.1” channel referred to when you see these systems
described as “5.1,” “6.1” or “7.1.” The bass channel is
separate from the other channels, but since it is inten-
tionally bandwidth-limited, sound designers have given it
that unique designation.

Dolby Digital
Dolby Digital is a standard part of DVD, and is available
on specially encoded LD discs and satellite broad-
casts and it is a part of the high-definition television
(HDTV) system.

An optional, external RF demodulator is required to
use the AVR 630 to listen to the Dolby Digital sound-
tracks available on laser discs. Connect the RF output
of the LD player to the demodulator and then connect
the digital output of the demodulator to the Optical or
Coaxial Inputs

of the AVR 630. No

demodulator is required for use with DVD players or
DTS-encoded laser discs.