Pioneer DEQ-P8000 Owner's Manual - Page 12

Setting the speaker setting, Digital Signal Processor - installation

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Section 03 Digital Signal Processor 5 Touch to turn the panorama control on. # To turn the panorama control off, touch . 6 Touch and then touch or to adjust front/surround speaker balance. Each time you touch or it moves the sound towards the front or the surrounds. +3  3 is displayed as the front/surround speaker balance moves from front to surrounds. 7 Touch and then touch or to adjust the center image. Each time you touch or it gradually spreads the center channel sound into the front left and right speakers over a range 07. 3 is the default and its recommended for most recordings. 0 places all center sound in the center speaker. 7 places all center sound equally in the left/right speakers. Setting the speaker setting You need to make with/without (or yes/no) and size (bass reproducing capacity) selection/adjustments depending on the installed speakers. The size needs to be set to LARGE (large) if the speaker is capable of reproducing sounds of about 100 Hz or below. Otherwise select SMALL (small). ! Low frequency range is not output if the subwoofer is set to OFF and the front and rear speakers set to SMALL or OFF. ! It is imperative that non-installed speakers be set to OFF. ! Set the front or rear speaker to LARGE if the speaker is capable of reproducing bass content, or if no subwoofer is installed. 1 Touch A.MENU and DSP and then touch NEXT. 2 Touch SPEAKER SETTING. 3 Touch or to select the speaker to be adjusted. Each time you touch or selects the speaker in the following order: FRONT (front speakers)CENTER (center speaker)REAR (rear speakers) SUB WOOFER (subwoofer)PHASE (subwoofer setting) # You can switch to PHASE only when the subwoofer has been set to ON. 4 Touch or to select the correct size for the selected speaker. Each time you touch or selects the size in the following order: OFF (off)SMALL (small)LARGE (large) # You cannot select OFF, when FRONT (front speakers) have been selected. # You can select ON or OFF, when SUB WOOFER (subwoofer) has been selected. # You can switch REVERSE (reverse phase) or NORMAL (normal phase), when PHASE (subwoofer setting) has been selected. Correcting the subwoofers phase If trying to boost the bass output of the subwoofer doesnt do much or rather makes you feel that the bass gets more murky, this may indicate that the subwoofers output and bass content you hear over other speakers cancel each other out. To remove this problem, try changing the phase setting for the subwoofer. 1 Touch A.MENU and DSP and then touch NEXT. 2 Touch SPEAKER SETTING. 12 En

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5
Touch
to turn the panorama control
on.
#
To turn the panorama control off, touch
.
6
Touch
and then touch
or
to ad-
just front/surround speaker balance.
Each time you touch
or
it moves the
sound towards the front or the surrounds.
+3
±
±
3
is displayed as the front/surround
speaker balance moves from front to sur-
rounds.
7
Touch
and then touch
or
to ad-
just the center image.
Each time you touch
or
it gradually
spreads the center channel sound into the
front left and right speakers over a range
0
±
7
.
3
is the default and it
²
s recommended for
most recordings.
0
places all center sound in
the center speaker.
7
places all center sound
equally in the left/right speakers.
Setting the speaker setting
You need to make with/without (or yes/no) and
size (bass reproducing capacity) selection/ad-
justments depending on the installed speak-
ers. The size needs to be set to
LARGE
(large)
if the speaker is capable of reproducing
sounds of about 100 Hz or below. Otherwise
select
SMALL
(small).
!
Low frequency range is not output if the
subwoofer is set to
OFF
and the front and
rear speakers set to
SMALL
or
OFF
.
!
It is imperative that non-installed speakers
be set to
OFF
.
!
Set the front or rear speaker to
LARGE
if
the speaker is capable of reproducing bass
content, or if no subwoofer is installed.
1
Touch A.MENU and DSP and then touch
NEXT.
2
Touch SPEAKER SETTING.
3
Touch
or
to select the speaker to
be adjusted.
Each time you touch
or
selects the
speaker in the following order:
FRONT
(front speakers)
³
CENTER
(center
speaker)
³
REAR
(rear speakers)
³
SUB WOOFER
(subwoofer)
³
PHASE
(sub-
woofer setting)
#
You can switch to
PHASE
only when the sub-
woofer has been set to
ON
.
4
Touch
or
to select the correct size
for the selected speaker.
Each time you touch
or
selects the size
in the following order:
OFF
(off)
³
SMALL
(small)
³
LARGE
(large)
#
You cannot select
OFF
, when
FRONT
(front
speakers) have been selected.
#
You can select
ON
or
OFF
, when
SUB WOOFER
(subwoofer) has been selected.
#
You can switch
REVERSE
(reverse phase) or
NORMAL
(normal phase), when
PHASE
(subwoo-
fer setting) has been selected.
Correcting the subwoofer
±
s phase
If trying to boost the bass output of the sub-
woofer doesn
²
t do much or rather makes you
feel that the bass gets more murky, this may
indicate that the subwoofer
²
s output and bass
content you hear over other speakers cancel
each other out. To remove this problem, try
changing the phase setting for the subwoofer.
1
Touch A.MENU and DSP and then touch
NEXT.
2
Touch SPEAKER SETTING.
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En
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