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Anti-Mode 2.0 Dual Core

Owner's Manual

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Page 1: ...Anti Mode 2 0 Dual Core Owner s Manual ...

Page 2: ... disposal Also the product has been manufactured using parts and processes that follow the directive of the Restriction of the use of certain Hazardous Substances in Electrical and Electronic Equipment RoHS Intended Use This product has been designed for normal indoor use and to be connected to other equipment with cables not exceeding 3m 10 feet in length If you use cables of extended length chec...

Page 3: ...s filters 17 4 5 Custom Parametric Equalizers 17 4 6 Homescreen and QuickTone 20 4 7 Audio Settings 21 4 8 Input Settings 22 4 9 Language Selection 22 4 10 Factory Reset 23 4 11 Information 23 4 12 PC Link 23 5 Using Sound Profiles 24 6 Advanced Calibration 25 7 Multi point Wide Area Calibration 26 8 Room Response menu Measurements 27 9 Audio Connections 29 10 Troubleshooting 30 11 Technical Speci...

Page 4: ...to correct the room resonances and other adverse effects generated by the listening environment Perfection in sound can only be achieved through the mastery in the art of room acoustics We have worked hard to ensure that the Anti Mode 2 0 Dual Core is not only powerful and versatile but also intuitive and easy to use However it is a good idea to read this manual in whole before operating the unit ...

Page 5: ...ut 3 Analog RCA input 4 Analog RCA output 5 Power supply input 12VDC 6 USB connector 7 S PDIF Toslink input 8 S PDIF Toslink output 9 DSPeaker datalink connector see the warning below IMPORTANT Never connect both RCA and XLR inputs 1 and 3 at the same time The analog INPUT connector types are meant to be exclusive alternatives to each other Rev 1 0 2013 06 04 Page 5 32 1 2 3 OUTPUT 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8...

Page 6: ...ton accepts any changes made and advances to the next screen The BACK button returns to the previous screen The three color coded buttons blue orange and green select similarly colored items in the various EQ editor screens The primary actions of these buttons are active in the home screen only display bypass and OUTPUT When the device is powered up for the first time the language selection screen...

Page 7: ...hoose from That and Multi point calibration will be described later in this manual The speaker configuration screen appears Use the arrow buttons to select the option that best matches your speaker setup If you are unsure select the 2 0 Stereo configuration Press OK to confirm the selection The microphone check screen appears At this point plug in the provided calibration microphone to the microph...

Page 8: ...ars and or your audio equipment Use the arrow buttons or the VOL and VOL buttons to adjust the calibration volume analog output only The field at the lower part of the screen displays Volume OK when Anti Mode detects a sufficient volume level for a reliable calibration The provided volume indication is a recommendation and it best works with speakers Sometimes even a lower volume level may be suff...

Page 9: ...oom correction parameters back to their previous calibration state However possible new speaker delay values from the distance detection step stay in effect Please note that this behavior may change in a future firmware revision Once the analysis phase is finished the corrected room response is shown in black The limit of the automatically corrected range is displayed with a vertical dashed bar Pr...

Page 10: ...you have run the calibration once you can view the before and after measurements from the Room Response Measurement menu You can use the same menu to make and view your own room response measurements 3 Home Screen View The default home screen view consists of three components The currently active input is displayed at the center Similarly the currently active output is shown at the bottom of the s...

Page 11: ... is saved when you switch the unit to stand by state using the standby button Keep the DISPLAY button pressed for 2 seconds to turn the display off completely this state is not saved By default OK activates the main menu The default functions for arrow keys are QuickTone actions UP DOWN control Bass LEFT RIGHT control Treble QuickTone can be used to quickly perform full spectrum adjustments from t...

Page 12: ...r advanced users Audio Settings modify channel balance headroom and dip compensation Homescreen You can configure the arrow and OK button functions Input Settings this menu allows to adjust analog input sensitivity volume trim and the operation mode of the USB volume control The Lowpass or highpass tool Create lowpass or highpass filters with the desired characteristics Two independent filter slot...

Page 13: ...and Loudness controls uses the house curve filter overriding user settings WARNING As with any low frequency boosting EQ employing an engaging house curve must be done with caution Excessive low frequency lifting may introduce clipping of the amplifier or even cause damage to the woofer Add house curve boosting in small increments at a time The parameters of the House Curve tool are Tilt Defines t...

Page 14: ...reble The motivation behind a tilt curve is along personal preference to compensate differences in various recordings One can for example make a profile with treble tilted down to tame too bright recordings Note the QuickTone Treble Tilt and Loudness controls use the tilt curve filter overriding user settings The parameters of the tilt curve are Freq The transition frequency of the effect illustra...

Page 15: ...ilt Curve tool again and pressing the green coded button to disable the effect followed by OK to apply the changes 4 3 Infrasonic Filter The Infrasonic filter tool is a quick way to apply a subsonic highpass filter that filters out the signals below the audible band The motivation behind an Infrasonic filter is to protect the woofer cones and to eliminate the effect of infrasonic harmonics and or ...

Page 16: ...he high lowpass filter tool are Frequency the cut off frequency of the filter at which point the signal is attenuated exactly 6 dB Activate with the blue coded button adjust with the LEFT RIGHT arrow buttons coarse and UP DOWN fine Slope the steepness of the filter 6 12 18 or 24 dB octave Cycle with the orange coded button Settings open the settings submenu Settings submenu Channel selects the fil...

Page 17: ...current PEQ Settings Opens the settings submenu Edit mode controls are Center Frequency the frequency at which the filtering effect is applied Adjust with LEFT RIGHT arrow buttons coarse and UP DOWN buttons fine Bandwidth approximately the 3 dB bandwidth of the effective band This is equal to setting the Q value of the filter but for simplicity user can adjust the bandwidth instead of the Q value ...

Page 18: ... The Parametric EQ filter list appears First you need to assign a filter slot for the filter If there are no previously designed Parametric EQ filters the first slot is automatically selected and you only need to press OK to proceed to the PEQ designer At the filter overview open the EDIT submenu by pressing the blue coded button on the remote controller Adjust the center frequency to 3000Hz by pr...

Page 19: ...n press OK to select The options are 1 OFF no function assigned 2 TILT tilt the full spectrum bass down and treble up or bass up and treble down 3 BASS adjust bass 0 to 6 dB default for the UP DOWN buttons 4 TREBLE adjust treble 6 to 6 dB default for the LEFT RIGHT buttons 5 LOUDNESS adjust loudness curve bass up and treble up 6 INPUT switch to next previous input no need to cycle though all of th...

Page 20: ...est headroom setting from the gains of the active filters However if you only use the analog input and do not use the full input range you can change the headroom setting to a lower value If the automatically calculated value is too small causing clipping at output you can manually increase the headroom value The headroom value is automatically re calculated any time you calibrate or change filter...

Page 21: ... input is subjectively louder adjust the volume trim value towards the left side until the volume levels are equal Changes in this dialog take effect immediately Press the OK button on the remote to accept the new adjustment or press the BACK button to discard changes The Input sensitivity setting adjusts the maximum allowed voltage level of the analog input Default value is high sensitivity Use t...

Page 22: ... The measurements are named accordingly to indicate the profile and measurement type the four files in each profile are for example profile A as a after txt The automatically generated response after the Anti Mode room correction a before txt The automatically generated initial response of the room a user1 txt The user made room measurement a user2 txt The secondary user made room measurement Equi...

Page 23: ...ilters Initially only one profile A is available To create another navigate to the Sound Profile dialog located in the Main Menu Select this icon to create a new profile The newly created profile will be identical to the currently active profile The new profile will populate the first empty slot available If all four profiles are in use one of them must be deleted before a new profile can be creat...

Page 24: ...o the uncorrected average bass level than with the uncompensated Off setting When selecting Max maximum compensation is used which gives about 2dB more gain for boosting filters This setting is beneficial in spaces where part of the problem is the general lack of bass possibly resulted by the absence of proper acoustic barriers It is good to remember that destructive reflection nulls can not will ...

Page 25: ...d the mid range bass and above Because of this Anti Mode 2 0 Dual Core employs correction of the summed output on lowest frequencies where all audio material is essentially monophonic but the correction becomes more channel dependent towards lower mid range and higher frequencies After all it is a different concept to measure either left or right channels separately compared to measuring both in p...

Page 26: ... 8 Room Response menu Measurements The Room Response menu and measurement tool allows you to measure and view the response of currently active filters You can also view the room responses measured during the automatic Anti Mode calibration process The calibration measurements always show the most important frequency range in terms of room correction from 16 Hz to 200 Hz The upper limit frequency o...

Page 27: ...ecomes available in the Measurements menu This measurement has the same range as the first one but you can select the channel s to measure This enables you to for example compare a room response of the left channel to that of the right channel compare the effects of the designed custom filters different points within the listening zone and so on By pressing LEFT RIGHT arrow button you can activate...

Page 28: ...is not possible pick the audio source that most benefits from the room correction and insert Dual Core between that source and the AVR 2 1 or 2 2 system If you have a 2 1 or 2 2 system main speakers with one or two subwoofers with existing cross over connect Dual Core before the cross over Your system is then seen as a 2 0 full range system by the Dual Core and both your main speakers and subwoofe...

Page 29: ...ues can also be inserted manually The closer channel should be delayed by 1000 S V ms where S is the difference in distances and V is the velocity of sound 340m s or 1116 feet s For example if the left speaker is 3 ft closer than the right one the compensation delay should be set to the left channel as 1000 3 1116 2 7ms and 0ms to the right channel Clipping Detected this warning is displayed on th...

Page 30: ...methods If your system has subwoofers their volume can be adjusted after the calibration With loudspeakers as well as on subwoofers you can use the House Curve or Parametric filter tool to increase the bass to match the preferred level and tone You can also adjust the dip compensation value from the Audio Settings menu Custom filters get disabled this can happen for two main reasons First of all w...

Page 31: ...viously used with the device That setting is restored each time USB input mode is selected while the unit is attached With the By Computer mode the VOL and VOL buttons are reported to the PC which performs the volume control operation You can also adjust the volume using the master volume control on the PC If you select USB Volume By Remote in the Input Settings menu volume control from the PC is ...

Page 32: ...tput Voltage RCA 1 65 Vrms max XLR 3 25 Vrms max Power consumption 9VAC 12VDC typical active 2 6W stand by 0 6W 2013 edition Input Sensitivity RCA 2 5 5 0 Vrms XLR 3 9 7 9 Vrms Output Voltage RCA 7 2 Vrms max XLR 14 4 Vrms max Power consumption 12VDC typical active 4 5W stand by 0 8W 11 3 Firmware Specifications Firmware specifications are subject to change between firmware versions Digital Signal...

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