Pioneer VSX-516-K Owner's Manual - Page 28

06 The System Setup menu Speaker setting Use this setting to specify your speaker configuration (size, number of speakers). 1 Select SP SET from the SP SETUP menu. 2 Use / to choose the speaker(s) that you want to set then select a speaker size. Use / to select the size (and number) of each of the following speakers: • Front (F) - Select LARGE if your front speakers reproduce bass frequencies effectively, or if you didn't connect a subwoofer. Select SMALL to send the bass frequencies to the subwoofer.1 • Center (C) - Select LARGE if your center speaker reproduces bass frequencies effectively, or select SMALL to send bass frequencies to the other speakers or subwoofer. If you didn't connect a center speaker, choose NO (the center channel is sent to the front speakers). • Surround (S) - Select LARGE if your surround speakers reproduce bass frequencies effectively. Select SMALL to send bass frequencies to the other speakers or subwoofer. If you didn't connect surround speakers choose NO (the sound of the surround channels is sent to the front speakers or a subwoofer). • Surround Back (SB) - Select the number and size of surround back speakers you have. Select LARGE if your surround back speakers reproduce bass frequencies effectively. Select SMALL to send bass frequencies to the other speakers or subwoofer. If you didn't connect surround back speakers choose NO.2 • Subwoofer (SW) - LFE signals and bass frequencies of channels set to SMALL are output from the subwoofer when YES is selected.3 Choose the PLUS setting if you want the subwoofer to output bass sound continuously or you want deeper bass (the bass frequencies that would normally come out the front and center speakers are also routed to the subwoofer). If you did not connect a subwoofer choose NO (the bass is output from other speakers). Crossover network • Default setting: 100Hz This setting decides the cutoff between bass sounds playing back from the speakers selected as LARGE, or the subwoofer, and bass sounds playing back from those selected as SMALL.4 It also decides where the cutoff will be for bass sounds in the LFE channel. 1 Select 'X.OVER' from the SP SETUP menu. 2 Use / to choose the frequency cutoff point. Frequencies below the cutoff point will be sent to the subwoofer (or LARGE speakers). Channel level Using these settings, you can adjust the overall balance of your speaker system. 1 Select CH LEVEL from the SP SETUP menu. 2 Use / to select a setup option. • T. TONE M. - Move the test tone manually from speaker to speaker and adjust individual channel levels. Note 1 If you select SMALL for the front speakers the subwoofer is fixed to YES. Also, the center, surround, and surround back speakers can't be set to LARGE if the front speakers are set to SMALL. In this case, all bass frequencies are sent to the subwoofer. 2 • If the surround speakers are set to NO, the surround back speakers will automatically be set to NO. • If you selected SB 2ND Z or SB BIAMP (in Surround back speaker setting on page 27) you can't adjust surround back settings. • If you select one surround back speaker only, make sure that speaker is hooked up to the left surround back terminal. 3 If you can't get good bass results, listen to the bass response with the subwoofer set to PLUS and YES or the front speakers set to LARGE and SMALL alternatively and let your ears judge which sounds best. If you're having problems, the easiest option is to route all the bass sounds to the subwoofer by selecting SMALL for the front speakers. 4 For more on selecting the speaker sizes, see Speaker setting above. 28 En