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Chapter 5
Surround sound settings
Important
• To access green functions on the remote, move the
slider switch from MAIN to SUB.
Using the Setup menu
From the Setup menu you can access all the surround
sound settings of the system
1
, including channel levels,
speaker distances, dynamic range adjustment and dual
mono audio playback.
Use the following buttons to use the Setup menu.
Channel level setting
The Auto MCACC feature (see page 23) should give you
the best surround sound setup. However you may find
that by further adjustment of the channel levels you can
improve the surround sound in your listening room.
This method of setting the channel levels allows you to
listen to a source and adjust the levels of each playback
channel. Note that the channel level settings for stereo
playback are independent of the settings for surround
sound playback.
A further method of setting the channel levels is to use
the test tone method. See Adjusting the channel levels
using the test tone on page 32 for more on this.
1 Select stereo or multichannel playback for a
source.
2 Press SETUP.
3 Use the / buttons to select CH LEVEL, then
press ENTER.
4 Use / to select a channel; / to adjust the
level of that channel.
• You can adjust the level of each channel by ± 10 dB.
• If the system is in Stereo or Virtual mode, or a stereo
source is playing in Auto mode, you will not be able
to adjust the center or surround channels.
5 Press ENTER when you’re finished.
• If you use the Auto MCACC feature again, it will
overwrite the settings you have made here.
Speaker distance setting
The Auto MCACC feature (see page 23) should give you
the best surround sound setup. However you may find
that by further adjustment of the speaker distance
settings you can improve the surround sound in your
listening room.
Set the distance of each speaker from your normal
listening position.
1 Press SETUP.
2 Use the / buttons to select DISTANCE, then
press ENTER.
3 Use / to select a speaker; / to adjust the
distance.
Adjust the following speakers:
• L – Front left speaker
• C – Center speaker
• R – Front right speaker
• SR – Surround right speaker
• SL – Surround left speaker
• SW – Subwoofer
Each speaker can be adjusted from 0.3 m to 9.0 m.
4 Press ENTER when you’re finished.
• If you use the Auto MCACC feature again, it will
overwrite the settings you have made here.
Note
1 There are other settings you can adjust from the Setup menu; these are explained in Listening to the radio on page 29 and Additional informa-
tion on page 37.
SETUP
MCACC
SURROUND
ADVANCED SOUND TV/DVD
SLEEP
INPUT
MAIN SUB
CHANNEL
TV CONTROL
RDS DISP
AXD7442
VOLUME DISPLAY
CLEAR
JUKE BOX
TEST TONE VIDEO IN
SR
+
ONE TOUCH COPY
MENU
ENTER
/ /
TIMER REC REC MODE
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