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Navigating the Setup Menus
Maestro X series
General Setup
These menu screens display general information and system controls.
(Information Only)
Source Input: Displays the currently active audio source input.
Incoming Format: Displays format of digital audio stream if present.
Incoming Sample Rate: Displays incoming sample rate of digital audio
stream, if present.
Incoming Bitrate: Displays bit rate of digital audio stream, if present.
Dialnorm: When a Dolby Digital audio stream is connected to this input this is
the Dialogue Normalization setting requested.
Video Input: The audio and video inputs on the Maestro X series generally
follow the source selected. This setting allows you to temporarily override and
change the video settings so you can utilize a different video source. Setting
resets itself when source is changed.
Incoming Resolution: Displays the incoming video resolution.
Audio Compression: Compressing the dynamic bandwidth of the audio
can be a good thing, especially for those late night action movie festivals.
Compression increases the volume of quiet sections and reduces the volume
of the louder sounds. These 3 options for this setting only apply to some Dolby
Digital or DTS soundtracks. As part of the general set up, this setting applies to
all inputs with digital audio streams that support this function and is recalled
each time the unit is powered up.
Off: Audio compression is not applied (default)
Medium: For loud segments of the audio stream, compression is applied to
reduce the level. Dolby True HD content will be compressed automatically
High: Maximum compression is applied with this setting. The differences
between quiet passages and loud portions of the audio track are minimized
Balance: Adjusts the left/right balance of the front outputs.
Dolby Center Spread
These settings applies to Dolby Surround mode decoding of two-channel
sources. The “spread” determines how strongly the Dolby Surround decoder
creates the center channel image. Normally this signal is fed only to the center
channel speaker output, but if there is no center speaker, a phantom center
channel is created using the front left and right channels. The adjustment
varies the spread of the center image.
