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AVR 1565/AVR 1566 After you return to the Speaker Setup menu, navigate to the Distance line and press the OK button to display the Distance menu. * DISTANCE * FL CEN FR SR : : : : 10FT 10FT 10FT 10FT SL : 10FT SUB : 10FT Set Up the AVR, continued Channel Reset: To reset all channel levels to their factory defaults of 0dB, select this line and press the Left/Right buttons. When you have finished adjusting the speaker levels, record the settings in Table A6 in the Appendix. Then select the Back to Speaker Setup option in the OSD. 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 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 lessen its bass output. DELAY RESET : OFF UNIT : FEET A/V SYNC DELAY : 0mS BACK TO SPEAKER SETUP Enter the distance from each speaker to the listening position that you measured in Step Two and recorded in Table A4 in the Appendix (see page 27). Select a speaker, then use the Left/Right buttons to change the measurement. You can enter distances between 0 and 30 feet (9.1m). The default distance for all speakers is 10 feet (3m). The default unit of measurement is feet. To change the unit to meters, scroll down to the Unit line and press the Left/Right buttons. When you have finished entering the settings, select Back To Speaker Setup. Step Four - Setting Channel Output Levels Manually For a conventional stereo AVR, a simple balance control adjusts the stereo imaging by varying the relative loudness of the left and right channels. In a home theater system with up to seven main channels plus a subwoofer, achieving proper imaging becomes both more critical and more complex. The goal is to ensure that each channel is heard at the listening position with equal loudness (when signals of equal loudness are played through them). After you return to the Speaker Setup menu, navigate to the Level Adjust line and press the OK button to display the Level Adjust menu. * LEVEL ADJUST* FL : CEN: FR : SR : 0dB 0dB 0dB 0dB SL : 0dB SUB: 0dB Assign the Digital Audio Connectors 1. Review the input connections you listed on the Input Connections and Source Buttons table, on page 13. Note which source devices you connected to the digital audio connectors. (If you did not connect any source devices to the digital audio connectors, you can skip this section.) 2. Turn on your TV and select the TV input where you connected the AVR in Connect Your TV or Video Display, on page 13. 3. Press the remote control's OSD button. The AVR's on-screen display (OSD) Master Menu will appear on the TV. CHANNEL RESET: OFF TEST TONE SEQ: MANUAL TEST TONE : OFF BACK TO SPEAKER SETUP All of the system's speakers will appear with their current level settings. You can adjust each speaker's level between -10dB and +10dB in 1dB increments. While making adjustments, you can measure the channel levels in one of these ways: • Preferably, use a handheld SPL meter set to the C-weighting, slow scale. Adjust each speaker so that the meter reads 75dB when the AVR's built-in test noise is playing. • By ear. Adjust the levels so that the test tone sounds equally loud to you when it plays through each speaker. To set your levels using the AVR's internal test tone, select the menu's Test Tone Seq line and use the Left/Right buttons to select between Auto and Manual. After selecting Auto or Manual, move the cursor to the Test Tone line and use the Left/Right buttons to change the setting to On. Auto: The test tone will automatically circulate to all speakers, as indicated by the highlight bar. Use the Left/Right buttons to adjust the level for any speaker when the test tone is paused there. Use the Up/Down buttons to move the cursor to another line, and the test tone will follow the cursor. To stop the test tone, use the Up/Down buttons to move the cursor out of the screen's speaker-listings area. Manual: The test tone will stay on the current speaker until you use the Up/Down buttons to move it to another speaker. Use the Left/Right buttons to adjust the level for the speaker through which the test tone is playing. If you are using an external source to set your output levels, set Test Tone to Off, use the Up/Down buttons to navigate to each speaker, and use the Left/Right buttons to adjust the speaker's level while the source plays. NOTE: If you are using a handheld SPL meter with external source material, such as a test disc or an audio selection, play it and adjust the AVR's master volume control until the meter measures 75dB. Then adjust the individual speaker levels. ** MASTER MENU ** INPUT SETUP SURROUND SELECT SPEAKER SETUP SYSTEM SETUP 4. Use the remote's arrow and OK buttons to select "Input Setup." The Input Setup menu will appear. * INPUT SETUP * SOURCE : TITLE: AUDIO IN : AUTO POLL : BXR : TONE : BASS : TREBLE : DVD ANALOG OFF OFF IN 0 0 BACK TO MASTER MENU 18