Kenwood Sovereign VR-5080 Connection And Setup Manual

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Receiver SetupChapter Three: Using Receiver’s Front Panel to Set Up the Speakers44Chapter Three: Using Receiver’s Front Panel to Set Up the SpeakersYou can also perform the Speaker Setup and program pre-set radio stations using the receiver’s front panel. (If youhave already set up the speakers or programmed radio sta-tions using Remote Control unit you don’t have to repeatthe procedures using the front panel.)Since you still must use Remote Control unit to identifyand set up your source devices for control, we recommendthat you use it for all setup procedures.• Do not operate Remote Control unit while you are per-forming Speaker Setup on the receiver’s front panel.Preparation for setupMost of the front panel control buttons are located insidethe panel door. Make the following preparation for setupon the receiver. Open the panel door by pushing the lowerpart of the panel door.Speaker Setup1. Press the SET UP button (SOUND button) untilSUBWOOFER ON appears on the receiver’s display (formore than 2 seconds).A. If your system has a powered subwoofer, leave thereceiver set this way and proceed to step 2.B. If your system does not have a powered subwoofer,press either MULTI CONTROL (fi/%) button once.The receiver’s display will read SUBWOOFER OFF.2. Press the SET UP button once more. The receiver’s dis-play will read FRONT NML/THX.A. If your left and right front speakers are not capableof producing clean, deep bass energy at output lev-els that match those produced by a typical poweredsubwoofer, leave the receiver set this way and pro-ceed to step 3. (Most left and right speakers shouldbe considered NML/THX.)B. If your left and right speakers are very large, and ca-pable of reproducing clean, deep bass energy at out-put levels that match those produced by a typicalpowered subwoofer, press either MULTI CONTROL(fi/%) button once. The receiver’s display will readFRONT LARGE.NOTE: If you set your front speakers to LARGE, thesubwoofer may not output audio dependingon the setups of the rest of the speakers, theinput signal and the listen mode. See step 6.3. Press the SET UP button once more. The receiver’s dis-play will read CENTER NML/THX.A. If your center speaker is not capable of producingclean, deep bass energy at output levels that matchthose produced by a typical powered subwoofer, leavethe receiver set this way and proceed to step 4. (Justabout all center speakers should be considered NML/THX.)B. If your center speaker is very large, and capable ofreproducing clean, deep bass energy at output levelsthat match those produced by a typical poweredsubwoofer, press either MULTI CONTROL (fi/%)button repeatedly until the receiver’s display readsCENTER LARGE.C. If your speaker system doesn’t have a center speaker,A SPEAKERS B INPUTMODE CD 2/TAPE 2MONITOR LISTENMODE THXSET UPDISPLAYRF BANDRFON/OFFSOUND MULTICONTROLfi % P.CALL MEMORY AUTO BANDfi %Button layoutPanel doorPush the lower part of thepanel door.press either MULTI CONTROL (fi/%) button repeat-edly until the receiver’s display reads CENTER OFF.NOTE: If your front speakers are set to NML/THX, youcan only set the center speaker to NML/THXor OFF.4. Press the SET UP button once more. The receiver’s dis-play will read SURR NML/THX.A. If your surround speakers are not capable of produc-ing clean, deep bass energy at output levels thatmatch those produced by a typical poweredsubwoofer, leave the receiver set this way and pro-ceed to step 5. (Just about all surround speakersshould be considered NML/THX.)B. If your surround speakers are very large, and capableof reproducing clean, deep bass energy at output lev-els that match those produced by a typical poweredsubwoofer, press either MULTI CONTROL (fi/%)button repeatedly until the receiver’s display readsSURR LARGE.C. If your speaker system doesn’t have surround speak-ers, press either MULTI CONTROL (fi/%) button re-peatedly until the receiver’s display reads SURR OFF.NOTE: If your front speakers are set to NML/THX, youcan only set the surround speakers to NML/THX or OFF.5. Press the SET UP button once more. The receiver’s dis-play will read S.BACK NML/THX.NOTE: If your surround speakers are set to OFF, thesurround back speakers are automatically setto OFF and the receiver skips to step 6.