Harman Kardon AVR 435 Owner's Manual

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28 SYSTEM CONFIGURATION• If a subwoofer is connected and you wish touse it for bass reproduction in conjunction withthe main front left/right speakers, regardless ofthe type of program source or Surround modeyou are listening to, press the ‹/› ButtonsE on the remote so that SUB L/R+LFEappears in the on-screen menu. When thisoption is selected, a full-range signal will besent to the front left/right “main” speakers. Thesubwoofer will receive the front left and rightbass frequencies under the crossover frequencyselected in another setting on this menu, asdescribed below, and also the LFE soundtrack.After making any required changes to the Sub-woofer Mode line, press the ⁄/¤ NavigationButton E to move the cursor to the SUBSIZE line. The setting on this line enters thedata of the size of your subwoofer’s driver so thatthe proper gain, filters and equalization settingswill be used with EzSet/EQ.To change the setting, make certain that the cur-sor is on the SUB SIZE line and press the⁄/¤ Navigation Button E, so that the set-ting appears that matches the diameter of yoursubwoofer’s driver. If you do not remember whatthe size is, you can either measure the driver’sdiameter or consult the owner’s manual for thespeaker.When you have completed the settings for speak-er “size”, press the ⁄/¤ Navigation ButtonE to move the cursor to the BACK T OMANUAL SETUP line to continue youradjustments. It is also important to remember tore-run the EzSet/EQ system if any changes havebeen made to the settings on this menu, follow-ing the instructions shown on page 26 for usingthe Manual mode.Speaker Crossover SettingWhen all initial speaker “size” settings have beenmade, you now have the option to take advantageof the AVR’s Quadruple Crossover system, whichallows individual crossover settings to be made foreach speaker grouping set to "Small". The low-fre-quency crossover point is set by the design of yourspeakers.Note: if the Speaker is set to Large in SpeakerSize menu the crossover is automatically set to40Hz when EzSet/EQ runs.It is defined as the frequency which is the lowestpossible frequency the speaker is capable of repro-ducing, or the frequency at which sound is sent tothe speaker’s internal low-frequency driver, asopposed to the mid-range driver. The settings onthe SPKR X-OVER menu also allow you toset the high pass filter that determines which fre-quencies go to the subwoofer when the AVR 435is playing back the low frequency effects (LFE)channel from a digital soundtrack.Before making any changes to the settings for thecrossover point we suggest that you find thecrossover point for the speakers in each of the fourgroupings, front left/right, center, surround andsurround back by looking at the specificationspage of the speaker’s owner’s manual, by gettingthat information from the manufacturer’s Web site,or by contacting your dealer or the manufacturer’scustomer service department. You will need thisfigure to accurately configure the next group ofsettings.The factory default setting for all speaker positions is100Hz. If that setting is acceptable for all channels,then no adjustments are needed and you may skipthis section.To make changes to the speaker crossovers orLFE high-pass filter setting, go to the SPKR X -OVER submenu within the MANUALSETUP menu (Fig. 8). To do this, first press theOSD Button L so that the MASTERMENU (Figure 1) appears. Next, press the ‹/›Navigation Button E until the cursor is onthe MANUAL SETUP line on the menu in useand press the Set Button F. When theMANUAL SETUP menu is shown, press the‹/› Navigation Button E again until thecursor is on the SPEAKER X-OVER lineand press the Set Button F to view theSPKR X-OVER menu (Figure 10).Figure 10To change the setting for any of the four speakergroups Left/Right, Center, Surrounds or SurroundBack, press the ⁄/¤ Buttons E until the cur-sor is next to the line where you wish to make achange and then press the ‹/› Buttons Euntil the desired setting appears. The availablechoices at which point low-frequency informationwill be sent to the subwoofer (or to the FrontLeft/Right speakers in case subwoofer is set toOFF), rather than to the speaker channel, are40Hz, 60Hz, 80Hz, 100Hz, 120Hz, 150Hz and200Hz. Pick the choice that is identical to theinformation for the speakers, or if an exact matchis not possible, pick the closest choice that isABOVE the speaker’s lowfrequency limit to avoidthe creation of a low-frequency “hole” whereyour system will have no bass information.When any needed adjustments are made to thecrossovers, one additional adjustment is availableto custom tailor the way information is sent tothe subwoofer. The LFE LP FLT lineadjusts the frequency cutoff of the low pass filterthat determines the frequency at which informa-tion is sent to the subwoofer when playing a digi-tal soundtrack that has a dedicated low frequen-cy effects channel. In most cases the default fre-quency of 120Hz is appropriate, since that is thefrequency most commonly used in the creation ofLFE channels during a movie’s sound mixingprocess. However, you may wish to change thesetting based on your individual preference or thecharacteristics and capabilities of your subwoofer.To change this setting when the SPEAKERX-OVER menu is on the screen, press the⁄/¤ Navigation Button E until the cursoris on the LFE LP FLT line and then pressthe ‹/› Navigation Button E until thedesired setting is shown in highlighted video.When all changes to Speaker Crossover settingshave been made, press the ⁄/¤ NavigationButton E until the cursor is on the BACKT O MANUAL SETUP menu and then press-ing the Set Button F so that you may makeany other adjustments to the system parameters.It is also important to remember to rerun theEzSet/EQ system if any changes have been madeto the settings on this menu, following theinstructions shown on page 26 for using theManual mode.The Speaker Configuration may also be changedat any time without using the full-OSD on-screenmenu system by pressing the Speaker Selector6 on the front panel or ' on the remote con-trol. Once the button is pressed, FRONTSPEAKER will appear in both the lower thirdof the video display and the Main InformationDisplay ˜.Within five seconds, either press the ‹/› buttons7 $ on the front panel or the ⁄/¤ buttonsE on the remote to select a different speakerposition, or press the Set Button @F to beginthe adjustment process for the front left and rightspeakers.When the Set button @ F has been pressedand the system is ready for a change to the frontspeaker setting, the on-screen display and MainInformation Display ˜ will read FRONTLARGE or FRONT SMALL depending onthe current setting. Press the ‹/› buttons 7 $on the front panel or the ⁄/¤ buttons E onthe remote until the desired setting is shown,using the instructions for “large” or “small”shown earlier, then press the Set button @F.If another speaker position needs to be changed,press the ‹/› buttons 7 $ on the front panelor the ⁄/¤ buttons E on the remote to selecta different speaker position, press the Set button@ F and then the ‹/› buttons 7 $ on thefront panel or the ⁄/¤ buttons E on theremote until the correct speaker setting is shownand press the Set button @ F again to con-firm the selection.* S P E A K E R X - O V E R *→ L E F T / R I G H T : 1 0 0 H zC E N T E R : 1 0 0 H zS U R R O U N D : 1 0 0 H zS U R R B A C K : 1 0 0 H zL F E L P F L T : 1 2 0 H zE Z S E T S E T T I N G S : O F F O NB A C K T O M A N U A L S E T U PSystem Configuration