Mode Defaults; Before You Use Mode Defaults - PROCEED Audio Video Preamplifier Manual

mode defaults

before you use mode defaults

When you choose to use the test signal by changing
,
on the low frequency test signal will be sent to your subwoofer(s) at a
modest volume. Regardless of the previous setting, the initial setting of the
bass level manager when you enter its menu is a low value of 30. This is
done to avoid a sudden, potentially speaker-endangering level of the test
signal being sent to your subwoofer(s).
2 RAISE THE VOLUME OF THIS TEST SIGNAL TO THE LOUDEST LEVEL YOU
ARE LIKELY TO WANT TO HEAR FROM YOUR SUBWOOFERS, BEING
CAREFUL NOT TO OVERDRIVE THEM; SAVE THIS SETTING
This is a potentially tricky area, since you don't want to limit the perfor-
mance of your subwoofers unnecessarily . At the same time, neither do you
want to overdrive them during the calibration of the system! (One way out:
have your dealer do the calibration, since he or she is more familiar with
the capabilities of the speakers you purchased.) Save the setting by pressing
, which also turns off the test signal and resets its next turn-on level to
enter
30. (This last step on the AVP's part ensures that the test signal always starts
out at a modest volume.)
The AVP also allows you to customize its default configuration for each surround
mode. Although the most accurate reproduction will be achieved by leaving these
adjustments disabled, their inclusion does allow you the option of tailoring the
sound of various surround modes to suit your individual taste. For example, if
you find yourself turning up the rear speakers whenever you watch a movie, and
then turning them back down to their normal, calibrated setting for music, you
may want to set the defaults for
accordingly, to automate those changes.
We recommend living with the AVP and using it in its calibrated
settings for a while before changing these defaults. There is an ad-
justment period people go through when their system is upgraded
during which it is difficult to make an accurate decision about
sound quality. The best-known example of this is when someone
first owns a high quality subwoofer: the tendency is to turn it up
too loud initially (so one can "hear it"); as time goes by, most
people find themselves gradually turning it down until it is ad-
justed to a more accurate level that blends appropriately with the
rest of the system. Similarly, there is a tendency to exaggerate the
bass and surround channels in surround systems before one ad-
justs to a high quality multichannel experience.
Remember that ad hoc adjustments (to compensate for a poor recording, for ex-
ample) on the system are always easy to make. Simply touch the button for the
speaker(s) you wish to adjust, and then raise or lower the volume. These offsets
from the calibrated settings remain active until you change them again, or until
you press to restore the AVP to its calibrated settings, or until you change
recall
inputs to listen to something else.
The surround mode defaults simply automate the manual process. For each of
the surround modes of the AVP , you may create default offsets for
and sub channels (as appropriate). The system will simply enter these default set-
tings for you as it switches from one surround mode to the next. As always, you
may alter these settings as you see fit from the front panel or from the remote
(e.g. AC-3 and DTS) and
discrete
from to
test signal: off
stereo surround
, ,
center rear
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