Emotiva UMC-200 User Manual page 22

• Avoid moving around the room during the test. It's best if you pick a spot that doesn't
block or change the sound field to stand or sit while the test is running. The best
place is in the rear of the room towards the center of the wall. Avoid walking near the
microphone during the test (even if you don't block any speakers) because reflections
from your body will interfere with the accuracy of the results. And, of course, avoid
making noise during the test.
• If you rearrange your furniture, move your speakers, or add or remove reflective or
sound absorbing wall hangings (like big pictures or tapestries), you should re-run EmoQ
for best results.
• If you purchase new speakers, or change adjustments on your speakers or other
equipment (like the level controls on your tweeters or amps), you should run EmoQ
again.
• EmoQ is quite powerful, but you will still get the best results if you start out with a
good room layout and good speakers. At a minimum, try to position speakers as
symmetrically as possible from left to right relative to the listening position. (Left and
right speakers of each set should be about the same distance to the sides of the
listening position; the center should be as near the center as possible. Perfect symmetry
may not be possible in your listening room, but the closer you get, the better your results
will be.)
• In general, highly reflective rooms are not optimum in terms of sound quality, and even
EmoQ may not be able to completely correct for the acoustic properties of an overly
"live" room.
Third, run EmoQ Gen2.
To run EmoQ, press the Menu button (to get into the menu system), select Setup, move
down to EMO-Q / EQ, move right to EmoQ Calibrate, and press Enter. Press Enter again
when asked, and again when asked after passing ambient level check. (If you "fail ambient"
it means that EmoQ thinks your room is too noisy, so look for appliances or other things
making noise and quiet them).
EmoQ will now play a series of test tones through each of your speakers in turn. This will
take several minutes; do not interrupt the sequence. If you don't have a full seven speakers
plus a subwoofer, EmoQ will still take several seconds to "test" each of the ones that aren't
there (to verify that they really aren't there); don't worry, EmoQ won't get stuck. After the first
series of test tones are done, EmoQ will present you with a screen summarizing what it has
found out so far (the presence, distance, and phase of each of your speakers) and wait for
you to press Enter.
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