Pioneer AVH-X8550BT Owner's Manual page 36

Section
16 Audio adjustments
4 Touch Music and then touch
Music Adjust.
# You can only operate Music Adjust when Music
has been selected.
5 Touch a or b to select Panorama (panor-
ama).
Panorama (panorama)—Dimension (dimen-
sion)—Center Width (center width)
6 Touch d to turn panorama control on.
# To turn panorama control off, touch c.
7 Touch b to select Dimension and then
touch c or d to adjust the front/rear speaker
balance.
Range: +3 to –3
8 Touch b to select Center Width and then
touch c or d to adjust the center image.
Range: 0 to 7
The default setting is 3 and is recommended for
most recordings. When set to 0, all center
sound is placed in the center speaker. When set
to 7, center sound is equally placed in the left
and right speakers.
Setting the speaker setting
Be sure to adjust the speaker settings, such as
size (bass capacity), according to the speakers
installed. Set the size to Large (large) if the
speaker is capable of reproducing sounds of
about 100 Hz and below. Otherwise, select Small
(small).
! Low frequency sound is not emitted if the
subwoofer is set to Off and the front and
rear speakers are set to Small or Off.
! It is imperative that speakers that are not in-
stalled be set to Off.
! Set the front or rear speaker to Large if the
speaker is capable of reproducing bass con-
tent, or if no subwoofer is installed.
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1 Press the home button to switch to the
home display.
2 Touch the DSP function key to open the
DSP function menu.
3 Touch Speaker Setting.
4 Touch a or b to select the speaker to be
adjusted.
Front (front speakers)—Center (center speaker)
—Rear (rear speakers)—Subwoofer (sub-
woofer)—Phase (subwoofer setting)
# You can only switch to Phase when the sub-
woofer has been set to On.
5 Touch c or d to select the correct size for
the selected speaker.
Off (off)—Small (small)—Large (large)
# You cannot select Off when Front (front speak-
ers) has been selected.
# You can select On or Off when Subwoofer (sub-
woofer) has been selected.
# You can switch Reverse (reverse phase) or
Normal (normal phase) when Phase (subwoofer set-
ting) has been selected.
Correcting the subwoofer's phase
If boosting the bass output from the subwoofer
is not effective or you feel that the bass is be-
coming less clear, the subwoofer output and
bass content emitted from the other speakers
may be canceling each other out.
1 Press the home button to switch to the
home display.
2 Touch the DSP function key to open the
DSP function menu.
3 Touch Speaker Setting.
Audio adjustments
4 Touch a or b to select Subwoofer (sub-
woofer).
Front (front speakers)—Center (center speaker)
—Rear (rear speakers)—Subwoofer (sub-
woofer)—Phase (subwoofer setting)
5 Touch d to turn subwoofer output on.
# To turn subwoofer output off, touch c.
6 Touch b and then touch c or d to select
the phase of subwoofer output.
Reverse—Normal
Note
When playing a 2-channel mono source with
Dolby Pro Logic II turned on:
! No sound is emitted if the center speaker setting
is Small or Large and no center speaker is in-
stalled.
! Sound is only emitted through the center speaker
if it is installed and set to Small or Large.
Adjusting the speaker output levels
Fine adjustments of the speaker output level can
be made by listening to audio output. First, use
the test tone to adjust the speaker to an approxi-
mate level, and then use this function to make
fine adjustments.
1 Press the home button to switch to the
home display.
2 Touch the DSP function key to open the
DSP function menu.
3 Touch Speaker Level.
4 Touch a or b to select the speaker to be
adjusted.
Front-L (left front speaker)—Center (center
speaker)—Front-R (right front speaker)—Rear-R
(right rear speaker)—Rear-L (left rear speaker)—
Subwoofer (subwoofer)
# Speakers with the size set to Off cannot be se-
lected. (Refer to Setting the speaker setting on page
36.)
5 Touch c or d to adjust the speaker out-
put level.
Range: +10 to –10
Note
You will get the same results whether you adjust
the speaker output levels with this mode or with
Test Tone.
Selecting a cross-over frequency
The frequency under which sounds are repro-
duced through a subwoofer can be selected. For
example, if the size of one of the installed speak-
ers is set to Small, you can select the frequency
under which sounds will be reproduced through
a speaker set to Large or a subwoofer.
1 Press the home button to switch to the
home display.
2 Touch the DSP function key to open the
DSP function menu.
3 Touch Cross Over.
4 Touch a or b to select the speaker to be
adjusted.
Front (front speakers)—Center (center speaker)
—Rear (rear speakers)—Subwoofer (sub-
woofer)
5 Touch c or d to select the cross-over fre-
quency.
63Hz—80Hz—100Hz—125Hz—160Hz—
200Hz