Harman-Kardon AVR 430 - Manual (Page 25)

SYSTEM CONFIGURATION SYSTEM CONFIGURATION
SYSTEM CONFIGURATION 25 SYSTEM CONFIGURATION 25
When you have completed your selection for the
back surround channels, press the
¤ Navigation
Button o on the remote to move the cursor to
SUBWOOFER.
Press the ‹ / › Navigation Button o on the
remote to select the option that best describes your
system.
The choices available for the subwoofer position will
depend on the settings for the other speakers, particu-
larly the front left/right positions.
If the front left/right speakers are set to SMALL,
the subwoofer will automatically be set to SUB,
which is the “on” position.
If the front left/right speakers are set to LARGE,
three options are available:
• If no subwoofer is connected to the AVR 430,
press the ‹ / › Navigation Button o on the
remote so that NONE appears in the on-screen
menu. When this option is selected, all bass infor-
mation will be routed to the front left/right “main”
speakers.
• If a subwoofer is connected to the AVR 430, you
have the option to have the front left/right “main”
speakers reproduce bass frequencies at all times,
and have the subwoofer operate only when the
AVR 430 is being used with a digital source that
contains a dedicated low-frequency effects, or LFE
soundtrack. This allows you to use both your main
and subwoofer speakers to take advantage of the
special bass sounds created for some movies.
Press
‹ / › Navigation Button o on the
remote so that SUB (LFE) appears in the
on-screen menu.
• If a subwoofer is connected and you wish to use it
for bass reproduction in conjunction with the main
front left/right speakers, regardless of the type of
program source or Surround mode you are listen-
ing to, press the
‹ / › Navigation Button o on
the remote so that SUB L/R+LFE appears
in the on-screen menu. When this option is select-
ed, a full-range signal will be sent to the front
left/right “main” speakers, and the subwoofer will
receive LFE information and the bass frequencies
under the selected crossover point.
When all initial speaker “size” settings have been
made, you now have the option to take advantage of
the AVR 430’s Quadruple Crossover system, which
allows individual crossover settings to be made for
each speaker grouping. The low-frequency crossover
point is set by the design of your speakers. Depending
on the design and driver complement of your speakers,
it is usually the lowest possible frequency the speaker
is capable of reproducing.
Before making any changes to the settings for
the crossover point, we suggest that you find the
crossover point for the speakers in each of the four
groupings, front left/right, center front, surround and
surround back, by looking at the specifications page
of each speaker’s owner’s manual, by getting that
information from the manufacturer’s Web site, or
by contacting your dealer or the manufacturer’s
customer service department. You will need this figure
to accurately configure the next group of settings.
Note that when any speaker group other than the front
left/right speakers is set to
LARGE, the crossover
may not be adjusted, as the feed will be full-range,
with no sound being derived for the subwoofer at
that position.
The factory default setting for all speaker positions is
100Hz. If that setting is acceptable for all channels,
then no adjustments are needed and you may skip
this section. However, should you wish to change
one of the settings, please proceed by pressing the
⁄ Navigation Button o so that the cursor
moves back up to the MODE line. Press the ‹ / ›
Navigation Button o so that X-OVER is high-
lighted and the menu data will change to the screen
shown in Figure 8.
Figure 8
To change the setting for any of the four speaker
groups, press the
⁄ / ¤ Navigation Button o until
the cursor is next to the speaker group where you
wish to make a change and then press the
‹ / ›
Navigation Button o until the desired setting
appears. The available choices for low-frequency infor-
mation to be sent to the subwoofer, rather than to the
main speaker channel, are 40Hz, 60Hz, 80Hz,
100Hz, 120Hz and 200Hz. Pick the choice that is
identical to the information for the speakers, or if an
exact match is not possible, pick the closest choice
that is ABOVE the speaker’s low-frequency limit or
crossover point to avoid the creation of a low-
frequency “hole” where your system will have no
bass information.
The setting for the crossover point for the LFE channel,
which is created to provide specific low-frequency infor-
mation in many movies with digital soundtracks, may be
set to match the crossover for any of the four speaker
groups. Since the crossover point commonly used in the
creation of the LFE channel is 120Hz, we recommend
that you select the speaker group whose crossover point
is closest to 120Hz. To do this, press the
⁄
/
¤
Navigation Button o until the cursor is next to the
LFE line, and then press the
‹ / › Navigation Button
o until the name of the speaker group with the
desired crossover frequency appears. Of course, you
may also experiment with different settings to find the
one that provides the smoothest and most complete
bass response in your particular listening environment.
When all crossover settings have been made, or in
those cases where none are needed, press the
¤
Navigation Button o so that the cursor is next to
the
BASS MGR line to make the final setting on
this menu.
This setting allows you to use the same speaker con-
figuration and crossover settings for all inputs, or to
have different settings for each input. In most cases,
the factory default setting of
GLOBAL will be
appropriate, as most listeners do not need to have
individualized speaker settings. However, some listen-
ers, particularly those with full-range front speakers
that are used for both movies and music, may prefer
that different bass-management settings be used
when listening to music through a CD player as
opposed to a movie from a DVD player, VCR or
cable/satellite set-top.
If you wish to customize the settings for speaker size
individually for each input, make certain that the Mode
line of the
SPEAKER SETUP menu is set to
SIZE and that the cursor is on the BASS MGR
line and press the
‹ / › Navigation Button o so
that INDEPENDENT appears in highlighted
video. When this setting is entered by exiting the
menu, the configuration settings just entered will apply
to the current input ONLY, and you will need to go
back to the
INPUT menu to select another input,
and then return to this menu page again to change
the settings for the next input. Repeat the procedure
for any input where you wish to have a different set of
speaker-configuration settings.
NOTE: When the INDEPENDENT setting is
activated you may assign different speaker size set-
tings to each input to accommodate different bass-
management settings that match your preferences
with the type of program material normally used with a
particular source. (For example, when movies are
played from DVD and music from a CD player.)
However, the actual speaker crossover settings are set
only once and do not change with the input selection.
The reason for this is that while bass-management
preferences may vary, the actual speakers remain
the same regardless of the bass-management and
redirection settings.
** SPEAKER SETUP **
MODE :SIZE X-OVER
LEFT/RIGHT: 100HZ
CENTER : 100HZ
S URROUND : 100HZ
SURR BACK : 100HZ
LFE : LEFT/RIGHT
BASS MGR : GLOBAL
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