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AVR 1710/AVR 171 only: Listening in Zone 2
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English Listening in Zone 2 AVR Advanced Functions Notes on Setting Speaker Volumes in Home Theater Systems: While setting your system's individual speaker volume levels is ultimately up to your personal taste, here are some ideas you may find helpful: • For films and video-music programs, your overall goal should be to create an enveloping, realistic sound field that draws you into the film or music program without drawing your attention away from the action on the screen. • For multichannel music recordings, some music producers will create a sound field that places the musicians all around you; others will create a sound field that places the musicians in front of you, with more subtle ambience in the surround speakers (as you would experience in a concert hall). • In most 5.1-channel and 7.1-channel film soundtracks, the surround speakers are not intended to be as loud or as active as the front speakers. Adjusting the surround speakers so they are always as loud as the front speakers could make dialogue difficult to understand and will make some sound effects sound unrealistically loud. Notes on Setting Subwoofer Volume: • Sometimes the ideal subwoofer volume setting for music is too loud for films, while the ideal setting for films is too quiet for music. When setting the subwoofer volume, listen to both music and films with strong bass content and find a "middle ground" volume level that works for both. • If your subwoofer always seems too loud or too quiet, you may want to place it in a different location. Placing the subwoofer in a corner will always tend to increase its bass output, while placing it away from any walls or corners will always tend to reduce its bass output. AVR 1710/AVR 171 only: Listening in Zone 2 With the multizone system in use, you may enjoy an exciting 5.1-channel home theater presentation in the main listening area, while others listen to an entirely different source in another room. See Install a Multizone System, on page 19, for installation information. You set up and activate the AVR's multizone system from the on-screen Zone 2 menu. Press the OSD/Menu button, and navigate to the Zone 2 line. Press the OK button to display the Zone 2 menu. Notes about listening in Zone 2: • Although you can listen to iPod or USB as a source in Zone 2, you cannot begin iPod or USB playback from within Zone 2. You must initially select iPod or USB as a source in Zone 1 and begin playback of a track or playlist from there. Then you can select iPod as the Zone 2 source and control playback from within Zone 2 even if you switch Zone 1 to a different source. • Only one of the AVR's internal sources (iPod, USB, vTuner, Network, AirPlay, DLNA DMR) can be active at a time across both zones. For example, if you are listening to vTuner as the source in Zone 1 and switch the source in Zone 2 to USB, it will switch the source in Zone 1 to USB(and vice versa). To listen to different sources in Zone 1 and Zone 2 at the same time, at least one source must be one of the AVR's configurable external sources (Cable/Sat, Disc, STB or TV) that is connected to one of the AVR's analog audio inputs, or one of the AVR's terrestrial radio sources (FM or AM). Volume: Highlight this line, and use the Left/Right buttons to control the volume in Zone 2. Assigned AMP: This line lets you assign the Assigned AMP channels to "Zone 2" for multizone operation (see Number of Speakers, on page 31). When this line is set to Zone 2, you may configure the main listening room for only up to 5.1 channels. To use the remote to control the sound in Zone 2, press the remote's Zone 2 button. The volume, mute and source select buttons will control the sound in Zone 2 and the Zone 2 button will illuminate whenever you press a button to indicate that the remote is in the Zone 2 control mode. Press the Zone 2 button again to return the remote to the main listening area control mode. Status: This line lets you turn Zone 2 on or off. Source: This line lets you select the source input for Zone 2. You may select a different source from the one currently operating in the main listening area. However, if the same source has been selected for both the main listening area and Zone 2, listeners in both areas will hear the same content. Only analog audio sources are available to Zone 2. To hear digital devices such as a CD player in Zone 2, follow these steps: 1. In addition to making a digital audio connection, connect the source device's analog audio outputs to the AVR. Make a note in Table A5 on page 39 to record which set of analog inputs you used. 2. Use the AVR's front-panel Audio Input button to select the analog audio input. (Leave the Audio setting for the source device in the Source Setup menu set to the digital input.) 33