Emo-Q/Eq System - Emotiva UMC-1 Operation Manual

The LEVEL CALIBRATIION screen appears. You will see a picture of a home theater setup. A test tone will start in the left
front speaker. Set you SPL Meter to 75 db. Press ENTER. The test tone will now go to the next speaker. Continue this
until all your speakers are set to 75db. This will work with either a 5.1 or 7.1 setup.
SPEAKER DISTANCE
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This is where you set the speaker distances from your seating position. You are able to set the speakers in .1 foot
increments. (Use this selection for manual set up only. Emo-Q will set the distances for you).
First measure and write down all the speaker distances from where you normally sit.
From the SPEAKER SETUP menu scroll to SPEAKER DISTANCE and press ENTER. You will see the list of speakers on the
left and distance on the right. With the top choice (LEFT FRONT) highlighted press ENTER. Use the right and left arrow
keys to adjust the distance that you measured for the front LEFT FRONT speaker. Press ENTER again to save it. Scroll
down, to the next speaker, and repeat. Continue until all your speakers are set to the distance you measured.
SPEAKER LEVEL
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This is where you set each speaker's level independently. You can set each speaker -10dB to +10dB. This is for level
trims after Level Calibration.
LFE LEVEL
• (Each mode can be set separately)
This is where you can set the relative LFE level for the various audio modes. These modes are EXT 7.1CH, MultiPCM,
DIGITAL 2/0, DOLBY D, DOLBY DDEX, DOLBY HD, DTS 2/0, DTS, DTS ES and DTS HD.
HDMI AUDIO OUTPUT
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The HDMI Audio Output can be set to off and Auto. You would set this to off if you did not want the UMC-1 to send
audio to your TV. The Audio sent to the TV is PCM 2.0 at 48k
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EMO-Q/EQ SYSTEM

The Emo-Q Auto Room Correction is able to correct deficiencies in your room acoustics by flattening the response. This
does not necessarily mean that this correct, only your ears can tell you what sounds good to you. The Emo-Q gives you
a base starting point.
CONFIGURING EMO-Q
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Hook the supplied microphone to the back of the UMC-1. Go to the setup menu and scroll down to the Emo-Q / EQ and
hit enter. The Emo-Q / EQ screen opens. Hit enter with the Emo-Q auto setup highlighted.
The first screen will open, it will read; Please wait Emo-Q starting
The next screen will open, reading; Quiet Please Press [ENTER] to start...
Emo-Q then tests the ambient sound levels for your room and the screen will read; Testing Ambient, please wait.
(It is important to be extremely quiet during this initial phase. Turn off all fans, air conditioners etc. that will disturb the
rooms ambient sound levels.)
The next screen will read; Test ambient result; Test Ambient Pass!; Press [ENTER] to continue
Emo-Q will then test for Presence, Phase and Distance. The UMC-1 will send out MLS (Maximum Length Sine wave)
Pulses to each speaker. When this completes the screen will read; Test completed read results below. You can see the
results on the screen. Press enter to continue.
Emo-Q will then test for Level, Crossover and EQ. Again the UMC-1 will send out MLS (Maximum Length Sine wave)
Pulses to each speaker. When this completes the screen will read; Test completed read results below. You can see the
results on the screen.
(TV only)
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