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The delay time which the C 2 calculates and displays for the subwoofer may appear quite differ-
ent than its physical distance, based on 1ms as the time, at sea level, that it takes sound to
travel 1 foot or .3 meters. This phenomenon is explained on page 62 in the “Technically
Speaking” section near the back of this manual.

If the delay required for any of the channels exceeds the C 2’s capabilities, its on-screen display
will change color to alert you. As with most battery-operated gadgets that you seldom use, you
should remove the battery when you put the microphone away, to protect against damage
should the battery ever leak.

Source Setup

The program sources in your home theater system require a wide variety of inputs. Associating
each source with the correct input jacks is done through the Source setup screen:

Source

: Unless you’ve modified them, the source num-

bers correspond to the input numbers on the rear panel of
the C 2. Sources 1 through 6 correspond to the Video 1
through Video 6 audio, composite video, and S-video input
jacks; sources 7 through 10 correspond to the Audio 1
through Audio 4 input jacks. You select the source you
want to set up by turning the front-panel knob or rocking
the Master remote’s thumbpad.

Note:

The 7.1-channel analog input cannot be permanently

associated with a video input; instead, the video input must
be selected first, followed by selection of the 7.1-channel
input for the sound.

Title

: The factory-set titles correspond to the inputs (e.g., “Video 3” for source 3), but you can eas-

ily alter them with the Master remote. First press the thumbpad’s edge to tilt it up or down until
the cursor is on “Title,” press the center of the thumbpad (it will click lightly) to select this option,
and the “Digital input” line of the display will be replaced temporarily by a cursor and an arrow:

By rocking the thumbpad up or down, you can change the
character above the arrow to any upper- or lower-case let-
ter, numbers 0 through 9, a space, or any of several punc-
tuation marks (asterisk, hyphen, period, or slash); if you
hold the thumbpad in its up or down position, the C 2 will
scroll rapidly through the available characters. If you pre-
fer, you can also scroll through the character list by turning
the front-panel knob on the C2. When you have changed
the character to the one you want, rock the Master
remote’s thumbpad to the right to move the selection

arrow to the next character. Pressing the center of the thumbpad, or moving the arrow past the
beginning or end or the seven-character title, ends titling mode.

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Note:

To change titles using the C 2 front panel alone, turn the knob to change the letter that’s

underlined on the built-in display, and press the front-panel MENU button to advance to the next
letter. The display shows only upper-case [capital] letters, even when lower-case letters are
selected, but that won’t matter unless you hook up a video screen later for on-screen display; if
you want to keep track of this, remember that the capital letters come first in the character list,
followed by the lower-case alphabet, then the punctuation marks, then the numbers, and finally
back to the upper-case letters.)

Even after you change a title on the C 2, the selector screen on the Master remote will still say
“VID 1,” “AUD 3,” and so on. To change those screen titles, you’ll need to use a PC and the MX-
Editor software. (The software can be downloaded from

www.parasound.com/halo

)

Digital input

: The C 2 has eight digital inputs, four coaxial jacks and four optical jacks. By rock-

ing the thumbpad side to side, you can associate any of those eight digital jacks with the source
you’re currently setting up.

Source setup

Source

Title

Audio 4

Preset

No change

Analog monitor