Harman Kardon AVR 146 Owners Manual - Page 35

OPERATION The AVR 146 is designed to reproduce audio with a minimum amount of distortion, which may lead you to think that your hearing and the equipment can handle higher volumes. We urge caution with regard to volume levels. Mute Function To temporarily mute all speakers and the headphones, press the Mute Button on the remote. See Figure 55. Any recording in progress will not be affected. The MUTE message will flash in the display as a reminder. To restore normal audio, either press the Mute Button again, or adjust the volume. Turning off the AVR will also end muting. Figure 55 - Mute Button Tone Controls You may boost or cut either the treble or the bass frequencies by up to 10dB. Press the Tone Mode Button once. See Figure 56. This will indicate whether the tone controls are in or out of the circuitry. If you wish to return the tone controls to 0, or "flat" response, press the ⁄/¤ Buttons, until the TONE OUT message appears, which preserves any changes you have made to the bass or treble settings for later use. To reactivate your changes, the tone control must again be set to TONE IN. With the TONE IN message displayed, press the Tone Mode Button repeatedly to access TREBLE MODE and BASS MODE. Use the ⁄/¤ Buttons to change the treble or bass settings, as desired. The display will return to normal a few seconds after your last command. NOTE: The AVR 146 does not have a conventional balance control. The speaker output level calibration process compensates for any characteristics of your room or speakers, and we recommend that you leave the settings as they are after you have completed Initial Setup. However, you may manually adjust the levels of the left and right channels - decreasing one and increasing the other by the same amount - using the Channel Adjust submenu, as described on page 31. This achieves the same effect as a balance control. Headphones Plug the 1/4" plug on a pair of headphones into the headphone jack on the front of the receiver for private listening. See Figure 57. The first time you use the headphones, the DOLBY H:BP message will be displayed, indicating that Dolby Headphone surround processing is in the bypass mode, which delivers a conventional 2-channel signal to the headphones. Figure 57 - Headphone Jack Press the Surround Select Button on the front panel, or the Dolby Button on the remote, to switch to Dolby Headphone virtual surround processing, indicated by the DOLBY H:DH message. Dolby Headphone delivers an enhanced sound field that emulates a 5.1-channel speaker system. No other surround modes are available for the headphones. Source Selection Press the front-panel Source Select Button to scroll through the sources. The left side of the button scrolls down the list that appears in the display; the right side scrolls upward. For direct access to the tuner, press the Tuner Band Button, which switches to the last-used band and frequency. See Figure 58. For direct access to any source, press its Input Selector on the remote (see Figure 52). Figure 56 - Tone Button You may alternatively adjust the tone controls using the full-OSD menu system. Press the OSD Button on the remote to view the Master Menu. The cursor will be pointing to the INPUT SETUP line; press the Set Button to display that menu and view the current tone settings. If you wish to make any changes to the TONE, BASS or TREBLE settings, use the arrow keys on the remote to move the cursor to the line you wish to change. Once you have changed the setting using the ‹/› Buttons, simply move the cursor up or down to a different line; it isn't necessary to press the Set Button to enter the new setting. When you have finished, either wait until the display times out and disappears, press the OSD Button to clear the display, or move the cursor to the BACK TO MASTER MENU line if you wish to make other changes using the menu system. Figure 58 - Source Select and Tuner Band Buttons NOTE: The Bridge/DMP source has no icon in the Source Indicators display. When selected, the DMP indication will appear in the message display's upper line, and one of two messages will scroll on the right side to indicate whether The Bridge is unplugged or connected. If you have retitled this source, then only the new name will appear in the upper line. The AVR 146 will switch to the audio and video inputs assigned to the source. If you set the BASS MGR setting in the Speaker X-over menu to INDEPENDENT, the AVR 146 will change the speaker size configuration to the one you programmed for the source. If you selected a surround mode for the source, the AVR 146 will switch to that mode. 35