Pioneer VSX-830-K Owner's Manual - Page 102

12 The MCACC PRO (VSX-1130)/Advanced MCACC (VSX-830) menu Standing Wave ! Default setting: ON/ATT 0.0dB (all filters) Acoustic standing waves occur when, under certain conditions, sound waves from your speaker system resonate mutually with sound waves reflected off the walls in your listening area. This can have a negative effect on the overall sound, especially at certain lower frequencies. Depending on speaker placement, your listening position, and ultimately the shape of your room, it results in an overly resonant ('boomy') sound. The Standing Wave Control uses filters to reduce the effect of overly resonant sounds in your listening area. During playback of a source, you can customize the filters used for Standing Wave Control for each of your MCACC presets. ! Standing Wave control filter settings cannot be changed during playback of sources using the HDMI connection. 1 Select 'Standing Wave' from the Manual MCACC setup menu. 2 Adjust the parameters for the Standing Wave Control. ! Filter Channel - Select the channel to which you will apply the filter(s): MAIN (all except center channel and subwoofer), Center or SW (subwoofer). ! TRIM (only available when the filter channel above is SW) - Adjust the subwoofer channel level (to compensate for the difference in output post-filter). ! Freq / Q / ATT - These are the filter parameters where Freq represents the frequency you will be targeting and Q is the bandwidth (the higher the Q, the narrower the bandwidth, or range) of the attenuation (ATT, the amount of reduction to the targeted frequency). 3 When you're finished, press RETURN. You will return to the Manual MCACC setup menu. Acoustic Calibration EQ Professional This setup minimizes the unwanted effects of room reverberation by allowing you to calibrate your system based on the direct sound coming from the speakers. Performing the Acoustic Calibration EQ Professional procedure is effective when the lower frequencies seem overly reverberant in your listening room (i.e. it sounds 'boomy') as shown at Type A below, or when different channels seem to exhibit different reverb characteristics as shown at Type B. ! Type A: Reverberance of high vs. low frequencies Level Low frequencies High frequencies Acoustic Cal. EQ Pro. calibration range Conventional MCACC EQ calibration range Time 0 80 160 (in msec) ! Type B: Reverb characteristics for different channels Level Front L Front R Acoustic Calibration EQ Adjust ! Default setting: ON/0.0dB (all channels/bands) Acoustic Calibration Equalization is a kind of room equalizer for your speakers (excluding the subwoofer). It works by measuring the acoustic characteristics of your room and neutralizing the ambient characteristics that can color the original source material (providing a 'flat' equalization setting). If you're not satisfied with the adjustment provided in Automatically conducting optimum sound tuning (Full Auto MCACC) on page 58 or Automatic MCACC (Expert) on page 99 , you can also adjust these settings manually to get a frequency balance that suits your tastes. 1 Select 'EQ Adjust' from the Manual MCACC setup menu. 2 Select the channel(s) you want and adjust to your liking. Use i/j to select the channel. Use k/l to select the frequency and i/j to boost or cut the EQ. When you're finished, go back to the top of the screen and press k to return to Ch, then use i/j to select the channel. ! The OVER! indicator shows in the display if the frequency adjustment is too drastic and might distort. If this happens, bring the level down until OVER! disappears from the display. 3 When you're finished, press RETURN. You will return to the Manual MCACC setup menu. Notes ! Changing the frequency curve of one channel too drastically will affect the overall balance. If the speaker bal- ance seems uneven, you can raise or lower channel levels using test tones with the TRIM feature. Use k/l to select TRIM, then use i/j to raise or lower the channel level for the current speaker. ! Speaker Setting channels set as SMALL or Dolby Sp at 63Hz cannot be selected. ! The frequencies that can be adjusted by the SW channel are 31Hz, 63Hz, 125Hz and 250Hz. ! Depending on the crossover frequency setting, some frequencies are less effective. Acoustic Cal. EQ Pro. Conventional MCACC calibration range EQ calibration range Time 0 80 160 (in msec) Using Acoustic Calibration EQ Professional 1 Select 'EQ Professional', then press ENTER. 2 Select an option and press ENTER. ! Reverb Measurement - Use this to measure the reverb characteristics before and after calibration. ! Reverb View - You can check the reverb measurements made for specified frequency ranges in each channel. - If the Reverb View procedure is performed after the Reverb Measurement operation, depending on the standing wave control setting, differences may appear on the reverb graph. With the Auto MCACC function, the reverberations are measured with the standing waves controlled, so the reverb characteristics graph shows the characteristics with the effect of the standing waves eliminated. By contrast, the Reverb Measurement function measures the reverberations without controlling the standing waves, so the graph indicates the reverb characteristics including the effect of the standing waves. If you wish to check the reverb characteristics of the room itself (with the standing waves as such), we recommend using the Reverb Measurement function. ! Advanced EQ Setup - Use this to select the time period that will be used for frequency adjustment and calibration, based on the reverb measurement of your listening area. Note that customizing system calibration using this setup will alter the settings you made in Automatically conducting optimum sound tuning (Full Auto MCACC) on page 58 or Automatic MCACC (Expert) on page 99 and is not necessary if you're satisfied with these settings. 102