The Outlaws’ Guide to the Marantz AV7005
Information
The Information menu offers details about the current state of the AV7005. A lot has to
happen in the background for a surround sound receiver to produce sound and video.
The AV7005’s
Information
menu provides a convenient way to verify the format of
incoming and outgoing signals and to verify settings, thus providing a glimpse at what is
happening inside the AV7005.
Information Menu
The page numbers below refer to the AV7005 User Guide.
Status:
Page 88
Audio Input Signal:
Page 88
HDMI Information:
Page 88
Preset Channel:
Page 88
The first sub-menu is
Status
, which provides information about the settings for both the
main zone and zone 2. This sub-menu contains three pages of data. The
▲
and
▼
buttons on the remote will scroll through these pages. The first page lists the selected
source, source name (custom input label), surround mode currently in use in the main
zone, Input Mode, Decode Mode, and HDMI, digital audio, and component video
assignments. The second page shows Video Select and Video Mode settings that are
currently active, i/p Scaler, Resolution A, Resolution H, Progressive Mode, and Aspect
settings. The third page shows the status of Zone 2 and Zone 3.
The second sub-menu is
Audio Input Signal
, which provides extensive information on
the incoming audio signal and how it is being processed. The first item in the sub-menu
is “Surround Mode,” which shows what listening mode is currently being applied. The
next three are “Signal” (input signal type, such as LPCM or Dolby Digital or Dolby
TrueHD), “fs” (sampling frequency), and “Format” (number of channels of audio). The
audio channels are listed in a format of “x/y/z.” In this format, “x” is the front channels (2
for left and right or 3 for left, right, and center), “y” is the surround channels (2 for
surrounds only, or 4 for surrounds and back surrounds), and “z” is the LFE channel (.1
for a LFE subwoofer channel). These three combine to provide a detailed description of
the audio signal being delivered to the AV7005 by the active source. For a typical 5.1
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Roadmap to the Setup Menus