Manual Speaker Setup; Speaker Setting - Pioneer VSX-516-S/-K Operating Instructions Manual

07 The System Setup menu
3 Use to select the channel you want,
using to check the settings.
The MCACC channel EQ indicators in the front
panel display will light accordingly.
4 When you're finished, press RETURN.
You will return to the Manual MCACC setup menu.

Manual speaker setup

These settings optimize surround sound
performance (if you're satisfied with the settings
made in Using the Quick Setup on page 8 or (VSX-
516 only) Automatically setting up for surround
sound (MCACC) on page 9, adjustment may not
be necessary). You only need to make these
settings once (unless you change the placement
of your current speaker system or add new
speakers).
1 Select SP SETUP from the System Setup
menu.
2 Use to select the setting you want to
adjust then press ENTER .
• SP SET – Specify size / number of speakers
connected (see Speaker setting below).
• X.OVER – Specify which frequencies will
be sent to the subwoofer (see Crossover
network below).
• CH LEVEL – Adjust overall balance of your
speaker system (see Channel level below).
• SP DISTN. – Specify the distance of your
speakers from the listening position (see
Speaker Distance below).
3 Press RETURN after making the
adjustments necessary for each setting.

Speaker setting

Use this setting to specify your speaker
configuration (size, number of speakers).
1 Select SP SET from the SP SETUP menu.
Note
1 If you select SMALL for the front speakers the subwoofer is fixed to YES. Also, the center, surround, and surround back speak-
er 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 speaker will automatically be set to NO.
38
En
2 Use to choose the speaker(s) that
you want to set then select a speaker size.
Use to select the size 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.
• 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 other 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 other speakers).
• (VSX-516 model only) Surround Back (SB) –
Select LARGE if your surround back
speaker reproduce bass frequencies
effectively. Select SMALL to send bass
frequencies to the other speakers or
subwoofer. If you didn't connect surround
back speaker choose NO.
• Subwoofer (SW) – LFE signals and bass
frequencies of channels set to SMALL are
output from the subwoofer when YES is
selected. 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
1
2