Harman Kardon AVR 435 Owner's Manual

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In addition to providing delaying adjustments for eachindividual speaker position, the AVR 435 is among thefew A/V receivers that allows you to adjust the delayfor the combined output of all speakers as a group.This feature is called A/V Sync Delay; it allows you tocompensate for delays to the video image that may becaused by the processing in products such as digitalvideo displays, video scalers, digital cable or satellitesystems, or personal video recorders. With properadjustment of the setting for A/V Sync Delay, you caneliminate the loss of lip sync that may be caused bydigital video applications.To make any changes to the delay settings, go to theDELAY ADJUST submenu within the MANUALSETUP menu (Figure 16). To do this, first pressthe OSD Button U so that the MASTERMENU (Figure 1) appears. Next, press the⁄/¤Navigation Button o until the cursor ison the MANUAL SETUP line on the menuin use and press the Set Button q. When theMANUAL SETUP menu is shown, press the⁄/¤Navigation Button o again until the cursoris on the DELAY ADJUST line and press theSet Button q to view the DELAY ADJUSTmenu (Figure 19).Figure 19If you are using this menu for the first time, press the¤ Navigation Button o to proceed to the nextstep, as no reset is needed. However, if you arereturning to this menu to change the current settings,you may wish to reset all channels to the factorydefault distances before entering new data.To reset the settings, make certain that the cursor ison the DELAY RESET line and then press the‹/› Navigation Buttons o so that ON is shownin highlighted video and note that the factory defaultswill appear. Press the ⁄ Navigation Button o toscroll back up into the channel listings to make youradjustments following the instructions shown aboveFigure 19. When your first setting change is made,OFF will automatically be highlighted on theDELAY RESET line to indicate that thechange has been made.The default for distance settings on this menu is infeet. If your measurements are in feet, proceed to thenext step; if your measurements are made in meters,press the ¤ Navigation Button o until the on-screen Ô cursor is at the UNIT line on the menu.Then, press the ‹/› Navigation Button o sothat METER is highlighted. When the changein measurement units is made, press the ⁄/¤Navigation Button o to return the Ô cursor tothe FL position.With the on-screen Ô cursor pointing to FL, pressthe ‹/› Navigation Button o until the distancefrom the center speaker to the preferred listeningposition is entered. Next, press the ¤ NavigationButton o to move the cursor to the NEXT lineand use the ‹/› Navigation Button o again toenter the distance from the main listening position tothe center speaker. Repeat the procedure for all activespeaker positions, first using the ¤ NavigationButton o to change to the next position, and thenuse the ‹/› Navigation Button o to changethe setting. Note that only the speaker positions thathave been set to LARGE or SMALL in theSPEAKER SETUP menu, as shown onpage 26, may be adjusted. The appearance ofthree dashes next to a speaker position in placeof a distance setting indicates that you have notconfigured an active speaker for that location.When the delay time for all speaker positions hasbeen set you may return to the manual setup bypressing the ⁄/¤ Navigation Button o until theÔ cursor is pointing to BACK TO MANUALSETUP and then pressing the Set Button q.However, if you have a digital video source or a digitalvideo display that causes lack of lip sync you may usethe A/V Sync adjust feature to delay the audio signalas it is sent to all channels (as opposed to the individ-ual settings) so that the picture and sound are broughtback together. We recommend that this adjustment bemade using the direct access controls on the remote,as shown below. That enables you to see the imagewhile making the adjustment; however, you may alsoadjust it here using the menu system.To adjust the A/V Sync delay, press the ⁄/¤ NavigationButton o so that the Ô cursor is pointing to theA/V Sync Delay line on the menu and then press the‹/› Navigation Button o to delay the soundsufficiently so that it matches the on-screen video.The delay settings may be adjusted at any time usingthe remote control and while viewing an on-screenimage by pressing the Delay Select Button a.The A/V Sync Delay setting is first, and it may beadjusted by pressing the Set Button q within fiveseconds of when the A/V SYNC DELAYmessage appears in the on-screen display and theLower Display Line $. Then, press the ‹/›Navigation Button o to enter the desired delaysetting that brings the video and sound back in sync.Press the Set Button q again to enter the setting.Note that the A/V Sync delay setting is unique to eachvideo input source, so you may enter a different set-ting to compensate for the differences between anyproduct attached to the different inputs.To change one of the individual speaker positionsdirectly, press the Speaker Select Button b,followed by the ⁄/¤ Navigation Button o toselect the desired position as that name appears in theon-screen display and the Lower Display Line $.When the name of the speaker position to be adjustedappears press the Set Button q within 5 seconds.Press the ‹/› Navigation Button o to enter thedesired delay setting for that speaker and then pressthe Set Button q to enter the setting. The ⁄/¤Navigation Button o may be used to selectanother position, or you may simply wait 5 secondsfor the system to time out and return to normaloperation.When all changes to the Delay settings have beenmade press the ⁄/¤ Navigation Button o untilthe cursor is on the BACK TO MANUALSETUP menu and then pressing the Set Buttonq so that you may make any other adjustments tothe system parameters. If the changes just made com-plete the manual adjustments needed, press the OSDButton U to exit the menu system and resumenormal system operation.Output Level AdjustmentOutput level adjustment is a key part of the configura-tion of any surround sound product. It is particularlyimportant for a digital receiver such as the AVR 435,as correct outputs ensure that you hear soundtrackswith the proper directionality and intensity.In most cases, you will not need to make anyadjustments to the output level, as the settingsmade by running EzSet/EQ are as accurate as thosemade manually. However, you are able to use theCHANNEL ADJUST menu to trim the settingsto suit your personal preferences or to configure thesystem so that the output settings are different fromone input source to another. The ability to make indi-vidual output level adjustments on a per-input basis isuseful for listeners who may prefer different settingsfor the subwoofer or an individual channel group suchas the front speakers when playing musical selectionsvia the CD input as opposed to the movie soundtracksmore frequently used with the DVD input. 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