Pioneer VSX-815-S Owner's Manual - Page 49

The System Setup menu 07 English Deutsch Français Italiano Nederlands Español 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 frequencies are output from other speakers). 3 When you're finished, press RETURN. Tip • If you have a subwoofer and like lots of bass, it may seem logical to select LARGE for your front speakers and PLUS for the subwoofer. This may not, however, yield the best bass results. Depending on the speaker placement of your room you may actually experience a decrease in the amount of bass due low frequency cancellations. In this case, try changing the position or direction of speakers. If you can't get good results, listen to the bass response with it 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. 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.1 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 / (cursor up/down) to choose the frequency cutoff point. Frequencies below the cutoff point will be sent to the subwoofer (or LARGE speakers). 3 When you're finished, press RETURN. Channel level Using the channel level settings, you can adjust the overall balance of your speaker system, an important factor when setting up a home theater system. 1 Select CH LEVEL from the SP SETUP menu. 2 Use / (cursor up/down) to select a setup option. • T. TONE M.- Move the test tone manually from speaker to speaker and adjust individual channel levels. • T. TONE A. - Adjust channel levels as the test tone moves from speaker to speaker automatically. 3 Confirm your selected setup option. The test tones will start after you press ENTER. 4 Adjust the level of each channel using the / (cursor up/down) buttons. If you selected T. TONE M., use / (cursor left/right) to switch speakers. The T. TONE A. setup will output test tones in the following order (depending on the speaker setting): L C R RS SBR SW LS SBL Note 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 43) you can't adjust the surround back settings. • If you select one surround back speaker only, make sure that speaker is hooked up to the left surround back terminal. 1 For more on selecting the speaker sizes, see Speaker setting above. 49 En