Bass Level Manager; Bass Level Manager Menu - PROCEED Audio Video Preamplifier Manual

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5 SAVE ALL YOUR CHANGES AND RETURN TO THE SETUP MENU
Once you have each channel adjusted properly , press
set speakers menu so you can continue the initial setup of your system.
Some powered subwoofers have built-in protection against overload, or have am-
plifiers designed to be incapable of destroying the subwoofer driver itself. If your
system enjoys this sort of protection, leave the Audio Video Preamplifier's
at its maximum (and therefore effectively disabled) setting. After
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all, the speaker designer knows the limitations of his/her product better than ei-
ther you or we can. It's best to let the speaker designer decide.
However, many subwoofers lack any protection against being overdriven other
than your own discretion in using the volume control. While this discretion is al-
ways a good thing — if your system starts to sound distorted, "fuzzy" or garbled
at high volumes, turn it down! — some people might prefer to have the system
itself provide a measure of additional protection. This task falls to the
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With the advent of discrete multichannel digital audio, it is possible to have six
(or more) channels of information that contains deep bass frequencies. In many
cases, the only speaker in the system that can reproduce deep bass is a single
subwoofer. If one subwoofer is expected to do the work of six speakers, and the
listener-controlled volume is turned up fairly high, it is easy to imagine the
woofer being taken beyond its limits.
With the
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mum volume beyond which you do not want your subwoofers to go. If you are
reasonably judicious with your main volume control during listening, you do not
have to perform this adjustment at all. It is provided to give you the option of
imposing an artificially low upper limit on bass transients (explosions, etc.), with-
out affecting the perceived balance of bass at normal volumes.
1 ENTER THE BASS LEVEL MANAGER MENU AND CHOOSE
TEST SIGNAL: ON
Y ou have the option of setting the bass level manager volume level arbi-
trarily, without the benefit of listening to a test signal; or by listening to a
low-frequency (bandwidth-limited) pink noise signal through the
subwoofer(s). After experimenting with the bass level manager, you might
want to reset it to its maximum setting (effectively disabling it). This would
be best done without having to endure an extremely loud test signal (e.g.,
).
test signal: off
BASS LEVEL MANAGER
TEST SIGNAL: OFF
TEST/NEW LEVEL: 35.0
SAVED LEVEL: 65.0
, you are given an opportunity to establish a maxi-
menu to return to the
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