Outlaw Audio
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Adjusting Tone Controls
Adjusting Lip Sync Delay
To adjust the bass and treble:
Press the TONE button on the remote.
The front panel display will show the set-
ting of the bass control, as seen above
Press the up or down buttons (
▲
or
▼
) on
the remote to set the level of bass boost or
cut in dB.
Press the TONE button again to set the
treble. The front panel display will show
the setting of the treble control, such as
TRB -2 dB.
Press the up or down buttons (
▲
or
▼
) on
the remote to set the level of treble boost
or cut in dB.
Use this control to adjust lip sync.
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Play the material (movie or TV show) in
which you noticed the lip sync problem.
Press the SYNC button on the remote.
The front panel display will show the cur-
rent audio delay setting, as seen above.
Press the up or down buttons (
▲
or
▼
)
on the remote to increase or decrease
the lip sync delay in increments of 10
milliseconds (10 mS) up to 500 mS.
Experiment until you get the actors’ lips in
sync with the dialogue.
Night mode aff ects soundtracks produced in
Dolby Digital, Dolby Digital Plus or Dolby TrueHD.
It employs Dynamic Range Compression (DRC),
which quiets the loud peaks in a soundtrack while
retaining the same volume level for dialogue. There
are three modes:
Auto
activates DRC using instructions encoded
in the soundtrack itself; you may have more or
less DRC eff ect depending on how the engineers
produced the soundtrack.
On
activates DRC for all Dolby soundtracks.
Off
deactivates DRC entirely.
The Model 976 has bass and treble controls that
can boost or cut in 2dB steps, to a maximum
±10dB. These controls can be used to fi ne-tune
the sound of your system for all material, or just
for certain movies or music that need a bit of
tweaking.
The bass and treble settings can be adjusted using
the remote control and the front panel display,
or through the menu. To adjust these controls
through the menu/OSD, see page 32.
Activating Night Mode
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If you notice a lip sync problem with a movie or
TV show you’re watching, it’s because the audio
is taking less time to process than the video. (This
problem appears to be most common when
you’re watching broadcast TV.) The Model 976
lets you delay the audio slightly to get the audio
and video back in sync.
If you fi nd that a particular source, such as a digi-
tal TV tuner, has a consistent lip sync problem,
you can preset the lip sync for that source only
through the Input Setup submenu (see page 27).
Use this control to adjust night mode.
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Press the NIGHT button on the remote
control.
The front panel display will show the cur-
rently selected DRC mode, as seen above.
Press the NIGHT button repeatedly to
change the mode to DRC on, DRC off or
DRC Auto.
Accessing the tone controls
Front Panel Display
Setting lip sync delay
Front Panel Display
Activating Night Mode (DRC)
Front Panel Display
