The Advanced MCACC menu
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When you’re finished, press RETURN.
You will
r
etu
r
n to the
Manual MCACC
setup menu.
Standing Wave
• Default setting:
ON
1
/
ATT 0.0dB
(all filte
r
s)
Acoustic standing waves occu
r
when, unde
r
ce
r
tain
conditions, sound waves f
r
om you
r
speake
r
system
r
esonate mutually with sound waves
r
eflected off the
walls in you
r
listening a
r
ea. This can have a negative
effect on the ove
r
all sound, especially at ce
r
tain lowe
r
f
r
equencies. Depending on speake
r
placement, you
r
listening position, and ultimately the shape of you
r
r
oom,
it
r
esults in an ove
r
ly
r
esonant (‘boomy’) sound. The
Standing Wave Cont
r
ol uses filte
r
s to
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educe the effect of
ove
r
ly
r
esonant sounds in you
r
listening a
r
ea. Du
r
ing
playback of a sou
r
ce, you can customize the filte
r
s used
fo
r
Standing Wave Cont
r
ol fo
r
each of you
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MCACC
p
r
esets.
2
1
Select ‘Standing Wave’ from the Manual MCACC
setup menu.
2
Adjust the parameters for the Standing Wave
Control.
•
Filter Channel
– Select the channel to which you will
apply the filte
r
(s):
MAIN
(all except cente
r
channel
and subwoofe
r
),
Center
o
r
SW
(subwoofe
r
).
•
TRIM
(only available when the filter channel above is
SW
)
– Adjust the subwoofe
r
channel level (to
compensate fo
r
the diffe
r
ence in output post-filte
r
).
•
Freq
/
Q
/
ATT
– These a
r
e the filte
r
pa
r
amete
r
s whe
r
e
Freq
r
ep
r
esents the f
r
equency you will be ta
r
geting
and
Q
is the bandwidth (the highe
r
the Q, the
na
rr
owe
r
the bandwidth, o
r
r
ange) of the attenuation
(
ATT
, the amount of
r
eduction to the ta
r
geted
f
r
equency).
3
When you’re finished, press RETURN.
You will
r
etu
r
n to the
Manual MCACC
setup menu.
Acoustic Calibration EQ Adjust
• Default setting:
ON
/
0.0dB
(all channels/bands)
Acoustic Calib
r
ation Equalization is a kind of
r
oom
equalize
r
fo
r
you
r
speake
r
s (excluding the subwoofe
r
). It
wo
r
ks by measu
r
ing the acoustic cha
r
acte
r
istics of you
r
r
oom and neut
r
alizing the ambient cha
r
acte
r
istics that
can colo
r
the o
r
iginal sou
r
ce mate
r
ial (p
r
oviding a ‘flat’
equalization setting). If you’
r
e not satisfied with the
adjustment p
r
ovided in
Automatically conducting
optimum sound tuning (Full Auto MCACC)
on page 43 o
r
Automatic MCACC (Expert)
on page 99, you can also
adjust these settings manually to get a f
r
equency
balance that suits you
r
tastes.
1
Select ‘EQ Adjust’ from the Manual MCACC setup
menu.
2
Select the channel(s) you want and adjust to your
liking.
Use
/
to select the channel.
Use
/
to select the f
r
equency and
/
to boost o
r
cut the EQ. When you’
r
e finished, go back to the top of
the sc
r
een and p
r
ess
to
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etu
r
n to
Ch
, then use
/
to
select the channel.
• The
OVER!
indicato
r
shows in the display if the
f
r
equency adjustment is too d
r
astic and might
disto
r
t. If this happens, b
r
ing the level down until
OVER!
disappea
r
s f
r
om the display.
Tip
• Changing the f
r
equency cu
r
ve of one channel too
d
r
astically will affect the ove
r
all balance. If the speake
r
balance seems uneven, you can
r
aise o
r
lowe
r
channel
levels using test tones with the
TRIM
featu
r
e. Use
/
to select
TRIM
, then use
/
to
r
aise o
r
lowe
r
the
channel level fo
r
the cu
rr
ent speake
r
.
3
When you’re finished, press RETURN.
You will
r
etu
r
n to the
Manual MCACC
setup menu.
Acoustic Calibration EQ Professional
This setup minimizes the unwanted effects of
r
oom
r
eve
r
be
r
ation by allowing you to calib
r
ate you
r
system
based on the di
r
ect sound coming f
r
om the speake
r
s.
How to use Acoustic Calibration EQ Professional
If you find that lowe
r
f
r
equencies seem ove
r
ly
r
eve
r
be
r
ant
in you
r
listening
r
oom (i.e. it sounds ‘boomy’), o
r
that
diffe
r
ent channels seem to exhibit diffe
r
ent
r
eve
r
b
cha
r
acte
r
istics (when Type A o
r
Type B shown on the
diag
r
ams on the following applies), select
EQ Pro. & S-
Wave
(o
r
ALL
) fo
r
the
Auto MCACC
setting in
Automatic
MCACC (Expert)
on page 99 to calib
r
ate the
r
oom
automatically.
•
Type A: Reverberance of high vs. low frequencies
Note
1 You can switch on o
r
off the Standing Wave and Acoustic Calib
r
ation EQ featu
r
e in the
AUDIO PARAMETER
menu. See
Setting the Audio
options
on page 71 fo
r
mo
r
e on this.
2 Standing Wave cont
r
ol filte
r
settings cannot be changed du
r
ing playback of sou
r
ces using the HDMI connection.
Level
Low
f
r
equencies
Acoustic Cal. EQ P
r
o.
calib
r
ation
r
ange
Time
(in msec)
80
160
High
f
r
equencies
Conventional MCACC
EQ calib
r
ation
r
ange
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