NAD M15 HD Owner's Manual

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SPEAKER DISTANCEYour system’s speaker distance settings are a subtle but importantrefinement of your setup. Informing the M15 HD of the loudspeaker-to-listener dimensions of each speaker automatically imposes the correctdelays, optimizing imaging, intelligibility and surround-sound ambience.Enter your dimensions with precision within about 1 foot (30 cm).SETTING SPEAKER DISTANCEWhile at ‘Speaker Distance’ menu, use the keys to individually set FrontLeft, Center, Front Right, Surround Right, Back Right, Back Left, SurroundLeft and Subwoofer to the distance measuring from your principal listeningposition to the front surface of their corresponding loudspeakers. Distancecan be set up to 30 feet or 9.1 meters Distance can be displayed as feet ormeters selectable at the ‘Unit of Measure’ item.ADjUSTING THE VOLUMEIn addition to the Volume knob, use the HTRM’s VOL to adjust the“master volume” of the M15 HD raising or lowering the channels altogether. Amomentary keypress will change the master volume by 1 dB increments. If youhold down VOL , the master-volume change will “run-on” until the key isreleased.Since recordings vary considerably in overall average level, there is noimperative to listen at any particular master-volume setting. A setting of -20 dBmay sound “as loud” from one CD or DVD as -10 dB does from another.The M15 HD will power-up from Standby mode at whatever master volumesetting was last used; however, if the prior setting was greater than –20 dB,the M15 HD will power up at –20 dB. This prevents inadvertently beginninga session at excessive volume.MUTING THE SOUNDUse the HTRM’s ‘Mute’ key to silence all channels completely. Muting isalways available regardless of the source or listening mode selections.NOTES• Changing input or listening-mode selections does not release muting.• Adjusting the volume level via the HTRM or the front panel volume knobwill automatically release the mute function.ADjUSTING CHANNEL LEVELS ‘ON THE FLY’You can make changes to the relative levels of center, surround andsubwoofer outputs without having to go into the ‘Speaker Levels’ menu.This is very convenient in circumstances like increasing (or tone down)a film’s dialog level by raising (lowering) the center channel or reducingexcessive deep bass (or enhance deep bass) by lowering (raising) thesubwoofer level.Use the HTRM’s ’SURR,’ ‘CENT’ and ‘SUB’ keys for direct-access leveladjustment of these channels over a range of ±6 dB.The surround back channels (if any) adjust in lockstep with the surroundchannels.NOTELevel settings adjusted ‘On the Fly’ are added or subtracted to the setuplevels established at the M15 HD level-calibration routine as invoked bythe HTRM ‘Test’ key. However, selecting any Preset will revert the channellevels to those stored in the preset. It will also take M15 HD off the levelsset via Audyssey Auto Calibration.OPERATIONUSING THE M15 HD – SETUP MENUENGLISH FRANÇAIS ESPAÑOL ITALIANO DEUTSCH NEDERLANDS SVENSKA РУССКИЙ