Harman Kardon AVR 630 Owners Manual - Page 30

OPERATION • To temporarily silence all speaker outputs, press the Mute Button 33 . This will interrupt the output 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 33 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 system 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 programs bearing the logo of one of the major surroundencoding 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 broadcasts, 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 presentations 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, external 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 40 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 discrete channels, and each channel reproduces full frequency 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 specifically 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 intentionally 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 broadcasts 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 soundtracks 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 JL 33 36 of the AVR 630. No demodulator is required for use with DVD players or DTS-encoded laser discs. 30 OPERATION