Harman Kardon AVR 1650 Owner's Manual

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20AVR 1650/AVR 165 Operating Your AVR, continued,and Advanced FunctionsSelecting a Surround ModeSelecting a surround mode can be as simple or sophisticated as your individual systemand tastes. Feel free to experiment, and you may find a few favorites for certain sourcesor program types. You can find more detailed information on surround modes inAudioProcessing and Surround Sound, on this page.To select a surround mode, press the OSD Button on the remote to display the Mastermenu:** MASTER MENU **INPUT SETUPSURROUND MODEEzSet/EQMANUAL SETUPSYSTEM SETUPUse the Up/Down and OK buttons to select Surround Mode. The Surround Mode menuwill appear:* MODE : MUSIC *DOLBY PLII MUSICCENTER WIDTH :3DIMENSION :0PANORAMA :OffBACK TO MASTER MENUUse the Up/Down and OK buttons to select the desired surround-mode category.Auto Select: For a digital program, such as a movie recorded with a Dolby Digital or DTSsoundtrack, the AVR will automatically use the soundtrack’s native surround format. For2-channel analog and PCM programs, the AVR uses the Logic 7 Movie, Logic 7 Music orLogic 7 Game mode, depending on the source.Virtual Surround: When only two main speakers are present in the system, you canuse HARMAN virtual surround to create an enhanced sound field that virtualizes themissing speakers.Stereo: When you want 2-channel playback, select the number of speakers you wantto use for playback:“2 CH Stereo” uses two speakers.s“5 CH Stereo” plays the left-channel signal through the front left and surround leftsspeakers, the right-channel signal through the front right and surround right speakers,and a summed mono signal through the center speaker.Movie: Select from the following when you want a surround mode for movie playback:Logic 7 Movie or Dolby Pro Logic II Movie.Music: Select from the following when you want a surround mode for music playback:Logic 7 Music or Dolby Pro Logic II Music. The Dolby Pro Logic II Music mode providessome additional settings. SeeAudio Processing and Surround Sound, on this page, formore information.Video Game: Select from the following when you want a surround mode for gameplayback: Logic 7 Game or Dolby Pro Logic II Game.After you select the surround-mode category, the Mode menu will appear:* MODE : MUSIC *DOLBY PLII MUSICCENTER WIDTH :3DIMENSION :0PANORAMA :OffBACK TO MASTER MENUUse the Left/Right buttons to change the surround mode.You can also select surround modes using the AVR’s front-panel buttons:Press the Surr Mode button. The Message display will show the surround-mode category1.and surround mode.To change the surround mode within the surround-mode category, press the Surround2.Select Up/Down buttons. Each press will change to the next surround mode.To change the surround-mode category, press the Surr Mode button. Each press will3.change to the next surround-mode category.Advanced FunctionsMuch of the adjusting and configuration your AVR requires is handled automatically, withlittle intervention required on your part. You can also customize your AVR to suit yoursystem and your tastes. In this section, we will describe some of the more advancedadjustments available to you.Audio Processing and Surround SoundAudio signals can be encoded in a variety of formats that can affect not only the qualityof the sound but also the number of speaker channels and the surround mode. You mayalso manually select a different surround mode, when available.Analog Audio SignalsAnalog audio signals usually consist of two channels – left and right. Your AVR offers twooptions for analog playback:DSP Surround Off Mode: The DSP Surround Off mode digitizes the incoming signal andapplies the bass-management settings, including speaker configuration, delay timesand output levels. Select this mode when your front speakers are small, limited-rangesatellites and you are using a subwoofer. To select this mode, use a digital audio input orturn the Tone Control setting off, then select 2 CH Stereo mode.Analog Surround Modes: Your AVR is able to process 2-channel audio signals toproduce multichannel surround sound, even when no surround sound has been encodedin the recording. Among the available modes are the Dolby Pro Logic II, HARMAN virtualspeaker, Logic 7 and 5 CH Stereo modes. To select one of these modes, seeSelecting aSurround Mode, on this page.Digital Audio SignalsDigital audio signals offer greater flexibility and capacity than analog signals and allowthe encoding of discrete channel information directly into the signal. The result isimproved sound quality and startling directionality, since each channel’s information istransmitted discretely. High-resolution recordings sound extraordinarily distortion-free,especially in the high frequencies.Surround ModesSurround-mode selection depends upon the format of the incoming audio signal as wellas your personal taste. Although there is never a time when all of the AVR’s surroundmodes are available, there is usually a wide variety of modes available for a giveninput. Table A9 in the Appendix, on page 31, offers a brief description of each mode andindicates the types of incoming signals or digital bitstreams the mode may be used with.Additional information about the Dolby and DTS modes is available on the companies’Web sites: www.dolby.com and www.dtsonline.com.When in doubt, check the jacket of your disc for more information on which surroundmodes are available. Usually, nonessential sections of the disc, such as trailers, extramaterials or the disc menu, are available only in Dolby Digital 2.0 (2-channel) or PCM2-channel mode. If the main title is playing and the display shows one of these surroundmodes, look for an audio or language setup section in the disc’s menu. Also, make sureyour disc player’s audio output is set to the original bitstream rather than 2-channelPCM. Stop play and check the player’s output setting.The channels included in a typical 5.1-channel recording are front left, front right, center,surround left, surround right and LFE (low-frequency effects). The LFE channel is denotedas “.1” to represent the fact that it is limited to the low frequencies.Digital formats include Dolby Digital 2.0 (two channels only), Dolby Digital 5.1, DolbyDigital EX (6.1), Dolby Digital Plus (7.1), Dolby TrueHD (7.1), DTS-HD High-Resolution