Surround Setup - Harman Kardon AVR 430 Owner's Manual

System Configuration
Figure 5
To change the setting for any of the four speaker
groups Left/Right, Center, Surrounds or Surrond
Back, press the Buttons
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sor is next to the line where you wish to make a
change and then press the Buttons
/
until the desired setting appears. The available
choices at which point low-frequency information
will be sent to the subwoofer (or to the Front
Left/Right speakers in case subwoofer is set to
OFF), rather than to the speaker channel, are
40Hz, 60Hz, 80Hz, 100Hz, 120Hz and 200Hz.
Pick the choice that is identical to the information
for the speakers, or if an exact match is not possi-
ble, pick the closest choice that is ABOVE the
speaker's lowfrequency limit to avoid the creation
of a low-frequency "hole" where your system will
have no bass information.
In cases where has been selected as the
front channel speaker option and
has been selected as the subwoofer option, the
front channel sound information below the cross-
over point selected for the L/R front speakers
(when fronts are set to "Small") will be sent to
BOTH the front channel speakers and the sub-
woofer.
When all speakers are set to
crossover point for the fronts (selectable when
they are set to "Small") will affect the LFE signal
and the bass support for the front speakers by the
sub (when the sub is set to L/R+LFE, see above)
only. In that case the default value "100Hz"
should be kept or selected for the crossover point
for the L/R fronts (selectable when they are
"Small") as it´s indicated (and marked by *)
behind the line in the speaker
setup menu when the X-OVER option is selected.
10. When all speaker selections have been made,
press the Button until the cursor is next
to the
press the Set Button to return to the Main
menu.
11. The Speaker Configuration may also be
changed at any time without using the full-OSD
on-screen menu system by pressing the Speaker
Selector on the front panel or
remote control. Once the button is pressed,
will appear in both the
lower third of the video display and the Main
Information Display .
24 SYSTEM CONFIGURATION
Within five seconds, either press the
on the front panel or the
on the remote to select a different speaker
position, or press the Set Button
the adjustment process for the front left and right
speakers.
When the Set button
and the system is ready for a change to the front
speaker setting, the on-screen display and Main
Information Display
or
the current setting. Press the
until the cur-
on the front panel or the
the remote until the desired setting is shown,
using the instructions for "large" or "small"
shown earlier, then press the Set button
If another speaker position needs to be changed,
press the buttons
/
or the buttons
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a different speaker position, press the Set button
and then the
front panel or the
remote until the correct speaker setting is shown
and press the Set button
firm the selection.
To assist in making these settings, the icons in the
Speaker/Channel Input Indicators
change as the speaker type is selected at each
position. When only the inner icon box is lit, the
speaker is set for "small. " When the inner box and
the two outer boxes with circles inside them are
lit, the speaker is set for "large." When no indica-
tor appears at a speaker location, that position is
set for "none" or "no" speaker.
the
Note: These icons are available only when
making setup changes without the use of the full
OSD mode.
As an example, in the Figure below, all speakers
are set for "large, " and a subwoofer is set.
line and

Surround Setup

Once the speaker setup has been completed, the
next step for that input is to set the surround
mode you wish to use with that input. Since sur-
on the
round modes are a matter of personal taste, feel
free to select any mode you wish – you may
change it later. The Surround Mode chart on page
29 may help you select the mode best suited to
the input source selected. For example you may
select Dolby Pro Logic II or Logic 7 for most ana-
log inputs and Dolby Digital for inputs connected
buttons to digital sources. In the case of inputs such as a
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buttons CD Player, Tape Deck or Tuner, you may wish to set
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the mode to Stereo, if that is your preferred listen-
to begin ing mode for standard stereo sources, where it is
unlikely that surround encoded material will be
used. Alternatively, the 5 Channel Stereo or Logic 7
Music mode may also be a good choice for
has been pressed
stereo-only source material.
It is easiest to complete the surround setup using
will read the full-OSD on-screen menus. From the
depending on
buttons tons
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buttons on
/
Set Button
.
on the front panel
on the remote to select
buttons on the
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buttons on the
/
again to con-
Figure 6
Each of the option lines on this menu (Figure 6)
will selects the surround mode category, and within
each of those categories there will be a choice of
the specific mode options. The choice of modes
will vary according to the speaker configuration in
your system.
When the
nel operation, and only the modes appropriate to
a five-speaker system will appear.
When the
for 6.1/7.1-channel operation, and additional
modes such as Dolby Digital EX and 7 STEREO or
Logic 7 7.1 will appear, as they are only available
when seven main speakers are present. In
addition, the modes DTS ES (Discrete) and
DTS+NEO:6 (DTS ES Matrix) available in the AVR
will not appear unless a digital source is playing
the correct bitstream.
Note: When a Dolby Digital or DTS source is
selected and playing, the AVR will select the
appropriate surround mode automatically, no
matter which surround mode was selected for
that input as default. Then no other surround
modes will be available, except VMAx with Dolby
Digital recordings and all Pro Logic II modes with
Dolby Digital 2 channel (2.0) recordings (see page
34).
To select the mode that will be used as the initial
default for an input, first press the
desired mode's master category name. Next, press
menu (Figure 1), press the
until the cursor is next to the
menu. Press the
so that the
menu (Figure 6) is on the screen.
line of the
menu (Figure 5) is set to
the AVR will be configured for 5.1-chan-
line of the
menu (Figure 5) is set to
or the AVR will be configured
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until the on-screen cursor is next to the
but-
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buttons