Harman Kardon DPR 1001 Owners Manual - Page 25

OPERATION Volume Control • Adjust the volume to a comfortable level using the front panel Volume Control $ or remote Volume Up/Down r buttons. • 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 the Upper Display Line F. Press the Mute Button 33 again to return to normal operation. • The DPR 1001 may be set so that the tone controls are either activated or "flat", which de-activates them. To change the tone mode setting, press the Tone Control Button 32 and the current tone control status will be displayed in the on-screen display and Lower Display Line B. TONE OUT indicates that the controls are not in the circuit path, while TONE IN tells you that they are active. To switch modes, press the ⁄/¤ Navigation Buttons n within five seconds of pressing the Tone Control Button 32 . Each button press will switch the mode. • To change the actual tone mode settings, press the Tone Control Button 32 . If TONE OUT appears, press the ⁄/¤ Navigation Buttons n to activate the tone controls. With TONE IN in the displays, press the Tone Control Button 32 again within five seconds and TREBLE MODE will appear in the displays. Press the ⁄/¤ Navigation Buttons n until the desired amount of treble boost appears. To adjust the bass boost, press the Tone Control Button 32 so that BASS MODE appears and once again press the ⁄/¤ Navigation Buttons n to enter the desired amount of bass boost. When all adjustments are complete, wait five seconds and the tone control settings will time out and the unit will return to normal operation. NOTE: Both the Treble and Bass controls are boosts, which means that you will see only positive numerical indications when making tone control adjustments. • For private listening, plug the 1/4" stereo phone plug from a pair of stereo headphones into the front panel Headphone Jack Ó. When the headphone's plug is connected, the word HEADPHONE will scroll once across the Main Information Display ^ and all speakers will be silenced. When the headphone plug is removed, the audio feed to the speakers will be restored. Surround Mode Selection One of the most important features of the DPR 1001 is its ability to reproduce a full multichannel surround sound field from digital sources, analog matrix surroundencoded 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 surround-encoding processes, such as Dolby Surround or DTS Stereo, may be played in the Dolby Digital, Surround EX,™ Dolby Pro Logic II - Movie, DTS Neo:6 or Logic 7 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 Dolby Pro Logic II - Movie, 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 programs are produced with Dolby Surround encoding. 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 Dolby Pro Logic II, Logic 7 Enhance (available only in the 5.1 configuration), DTS Neo:6, VMAx, Hall or Theater modes may deliver enveloping surround presentations through the use of the natural information present in all stereo recordings. However, for stereo, but not surround programs, we suggest that you experiment with the other modes. Surround modes may be selected using either the front panel controls or the remote. To select a surround mode from the front panel, first press the Surround Mode Selector 3. This will cycle through the available surround mode groupings. Once the desired surround mode group name appears, press the Surround Select Button 4 to cycle through the choices that are available within that mode group. The choices will vary based on the speaker configuration and input source. Some modes may be used only when seven speaker channels are available (e.g., Dolby Digital EX, Logic 7/7.1 and DTS-ES 6.1), while others (Dolby Digital, Logic 7/5.1 and DTS) are only available when five speaker channels are configured. To select a surround mode using the remote control, first determine which overall surround group the mode is in. The groupings are the same as when changing modes using the front panel controls. For example, to select Dolby Pro Logic II - Music you will need to press the Dolby Surround Mode Select Button 42 or to select VMAx you will use the DSP Surround Mode Selector g. Using the button that matches the sur- round group, press the Dolby Surround Mode Select Button 42 , DTS Digital Mode Select Button 41 , Logic 7 Mode Select Button h, DTS Neo:6 Mode Select Button 40 , DSP Surround Mode Selector g or Stereo Mode Select Button 39 . Depending on the current speaker configuration (5.1 or 6.1/7.1), each subsequent press of the button will display the modes available in that grouping. When the desired mode name appears in the on-screen display and Lower Display Line B, simply wait five seconds for the setting to be entered into memory. When the on-screen display times out, the unit has returned to normal operation, and the mode name will remain in the Lower Display Line B. As the surround modes change, an amber LED will light next to the current mode in the Surround Mode Indicators * list on the front panel. The Dolby Digital and 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 DPR 1001 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 following section. 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 39 until SURR OFF appears in the Lower Display Line B. Digital Audio Playback Digital audio is a major advancement over analog surround processing systems such as Dolby Pro Logic. It delivers five discrete channels: left front, center, right front, left surround and right surround. Each channel reproduces full frequency range (20Hz to 20kHz) and offers dramatically improved dynamic range and 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. Dolby Digital bitstreams may be encoded in a variety of channel configurations, ranging from traditional two-channel stereo to the latest Dolby Digital Surround EX technology. Once the DPR 1001's processor recognizes the Dolby Digital bitstream, a variety of surround modes may be applied, as indicated in the previous section. (Continued on p. 27) OPERATION 25