Harman Kardon AVR 245 Owners Manual - Page 51

ADVANCED FUNCTIONS • LFE: This setting plays low-frequency information contained in the left and right program channels to the front speakers, and directs only the LFE channel information to the subwoofer. • NONE: This setting steers all low-frequency information to the front speakers, and no information to the subwoofer output. Use this setting if you have a passive subwoofer, or a powered subwoofer that you connected to the front speaker outputs. NOTE: If you are using a Harman Kardon HKTS speaker system, select the SMALL setting for the LEFT/RIGHT, CENTER, SURROUND and SURR BACK lines, and the subwoofer will automatically be set to SUB. BASS MGR: This advanced setting is used if you wish to configure your speakers differently for different sources. For example, you may prefer to set your speakers to LARGE while listening to CDs from your CD player. By changing this setting to INDEPENDENT, you may have different settings for your CD player and your DVD player or other devices. We recommend that you leave this setting at its factory default of GLOBAL until you have more experience with the AVR. Move the cursor to the BACK TO MANUAL SETUP line and press the Set Button to return to the Manual Setup Menu. The speaker sizes may also be configured without using the on-screen menu system. Press the Speaker Setup Button on the remote, and use the ⁄/¤ Buttons to select the desired speaker group (Front Speakers, Center Speaker, Surround Speakers, Surround Back Speakers, Subwoofer). Press the Set Button to display the current setting for the speaker group, and use the ⁄/¤ Buttons again to change the setting. Press the Set Button to return to the previous display, or wait a few seconds for the AVR to return to normal operation on its own. To access the setting for the Surround Back speakers, make sure to turn off the multiroom system using the Multiroom Setup menu. NOTE: The Speaker/Channel Indicators on the front panel of the receiver (see Figure 82) will display the speaker size settings as follows. For each speaker configured as SMALL, a single box will appear in the position for that speaker. For each speaker configured as LARGE, a double box will appear in its position. If a speaker is configured as NONE, no box will appear. The subwoofer will be indicated by a single box, or no box if no subwoofer has been configured. The letters inside the boxes appear when a digital signal is being received that has that channel discretely encoded. The letters flash when the signal is not present, such as when a DVD is paused. See Figure 82. LCR LFE SL SR SBL SBL Figure 82 - Speaker/Channel Input Indicators Speaker Crossover Menu On the Manual Setup menu, move the cursor to the SPEAKER X-OVER line and press the Set Button to display the Speaker Crossover menu. See Figure 83. Figure 83 - Speaker Crossover Menu Screen Setting the Speaker Crossover menu correctly ensures that your speakers are properly used so that they sound their best. Although you could skip this step the first time you use the receiver, we recommend that you take the few extra minutes to enter the correct crossover settings. You may select from seven possible settings: 40Hz, 60Hz, 80Hz, 100Hz, 120Hz, 150Hz or 200Hz. Depending upon the frequency response of your speakers which you recorded in Step One - Determine Speaker Size, for each speaker group select the number that matches or is just above the low end of your speaker's frequency response. You may record the speaker crossover settings in Table A5 in the appendix. The LFE line sets the frequency for a low-pass filter that determines what information is sent to the subwoofer for playback. Since the subwoofer output combines low-frequency information for all channels, in order to make sure that no information is lost due to different speakers having different capabilities, the subwoofer filter should be matched to the highest crossover frequency used for any speaker group. Examine each of your speaker-group settings in this menu, and determine which group is set to the highest frequency. Move the cursor to the LFE line, and use the ‹/› Buttons to select that speaker group. If all speaker groups have the same setting, you may leave the LFE filter at its factory default of the LEFT/RIGHT speaker group. Move the cursor to the BACK TO MANUAL SETUP line and press the Set Button to return to the Manual Setup menu. It is not possible to adjust the speaker crossover settings without using the on-screen menu system. NOTE: Although the MAIN or MULTI indication appears next to the SURR BACK line to indicate whether the surround back channels are being used for multiroom operation, you will not be able to change this setting from this menu. Delay Adjust Menu As explained above in Step Two - Measure Speaker Distances, sometimes the speakers are placed at different distances from the listening position, which can muddy the sound, as sounds are heard earlier or later than desired. 51