Audio Setup - NAD S170iAV Owner's Manual

AUDIO SETUP

The <Audio setup> menu enables you to modify tone-control settings and other listening options.
Modifications you make on this menu will remain in affect until changed again, or until a Preset
containing different settings is recalled (see below).
DOLBY/DTS SETUP
From the <Audio Setup> menu, select the <Dolby/DTS setup> item using the remote's [Cursor
then press [Enter], this will show a sub menu with the following choices to adjust the music modes of the
Dolby and DTS surround decoders:
<PL II Panorama> select <Off> or <On>
When selected <On> the Panorama setting wraps the sound of the Front Left and Right speakers
around you for an exciting effect.
<PL II Center Width> select <Min.> <1> <2> <3> <4> <5> <6> <Max.>
Center Width allows you to gradually spread the Center channel sound into the Front Left and Right
speakers. At the widest <Max.> setting all the Center speaker sound is mixed to the Left and Right
speakers. This control may help achieve a more spacious sound, or a better blend of the front image.
<PL II Dimension> select <0> <1> <2> <3>
Dimension adjusts the front/back balance to taste.
<Neo:6 Center Image> select <Min.> <1> <2> <3> <4> <Max.>
Center Image allows you to gradually spread the Center channel sound into the Front Left and Right
speakers.
PRESET SETUP
The S170i incorporates five "Presets," memory locations in which you may store five different
combinations of tone-control and relative center/surround/subwoofer channel levels to suit different
requirements. For example: You might configure Preset 1 for movie-surround with tone controls set to
zero and relative channel levels left at their calibrated points, but set Preset 2 for music-surround listening
with slightly elevated surround- and subwoofer-channel levels, slightly reduced center-channel levels, and
modified bass or treble. Presets may be configured in any way, for any purpose you see fit.
CONFIGURING PRESETS
From the <Audio setup> menu, use the remote's [Cursor
setup> item. Using the same keys, select the Preset to be configured on the <Preset> item; then invoke
the bass and treble settings desired for that preset using the same keys. With the same keys again, set
the relative levels of Center, Surround, and Subwoofer channels for that preset.
NOTE THAT:
• If surround-back speaker(s) are configured as present in the <Speaker setup> OSD menu (below), their
levels will be controlled along with the surround-channels levels.
• Once configured, a Preset remains unchanged until you edit it via the <Preset setup> OSD menu.
• A Preset applies regardless of what source is selected, or what listening mode is in operation
• Cycling the S170i through its Standby mode will cancel any previously selected Preset, reverting both
tone and all level settings to those set on the HTR 2 remote's LEVELS or MODE/MULTI.S screens
(below), or via the S170i preamp's <Audio setup> (above) OSD menu. If you would like to be able to
set all channel-levels and tone-control values to zero without cycling through Standby, set one Preset
to "all zeroes."
• Channel levels stored in presets (are added to the setup levels established on the S170i preamp's
<Levels setup> OSD menu. For example: if your <Level setup> establishes <Center> at "-3 dB" and
you dial in a Preset center-channel level of +2 dB, the net overall effect will be a center-channel level
of -1 dB. By contrast, tone-control settings override <Audio setup> tone levels entirely.
RECALLING PRESETS
To implement the preset at any time, sequentially press the HTR 2's [AV PRESET] key and the
corresponding numeral key <1 - 5>. Cycling the S170i through Standby mode will release the preset.
the number of the preset invoked will appear briefly on the OSD and the S170i's front-panel display. (See
also Using Presets, below)
] keys,
] and [Enter] keys to select the <Preset
CONFIGURING THE S170i
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