Harman-Kardon AVR 147 - Manual (Page 23)

SYSTEM CONFIGURATION 23
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System Configuration
• Room Equalization: Each room has unique
characteristics that may affect the frequency
response at the listening position. For example,
doorways and alcoves can increase bass
response nearby. Varying surfaces such as hard
floors or windows, or soft carpets or draperies,
may also affect the way the room responds to
sound. Until now, expensive testing devices
and long hours of taking measurements and
adjusting room furnishings were required in
order to smooth out the frequency response to
avoid artifacts. EzSet/EQ simplifies equaliza-
tion, delivering world-class performance with-
out the extra expense. While the test tone cir-
culates, EzSet/EQ is able to obtain a sonic
“view” of the room and its characteristics, and
adjust the receiver’s output accordingly to cus-
tomize performance to the listening room.
Step 9: When all measurements are successfully
completed, the test signals will stop and a
TEST DONE UNPLUG MIC message will
appear in the second line of the on-screen menu
listings.
Figure 7f
Unplug the microphone and store it in a safe
place so that it is available to recalibrate your
system if needed due to a change in speakers,
preferred listening position, or a major change in
the room’s furnishings (such as the addition of
thick carpeting or plush furniture) that might
require different settings. To enter the settings to
the receiver’s memory and return to the Master
Menu, press the
⁄ / ¤ Navigation Buttons
D so that the on-screen cursor is pointing to
RETURN T O MASTER MENU and press the
Set Button F.
Note: If you wish to check the test results before
exiting the EzSet/EQ menu, press the
⁄ / ¤ Navigation Buttons D so that the on-
screen cursor is at the second line of the menu
listings, and then press the
‹ / › Navigation
Buttons Ea to scroll through the list of
speaker positions. The data on each line will also
be entered into the listings on the individual
SPEAKER SETUP , DELAY ADJUST and
CHANNEL ADJUST menus once you exit
EZSET/EQ .
Step 10: If the measurements are not successful
due to a missing or malfunctioning speaker, an
ERROR message and menu will appear, as
shown in Figure 7g. The EzSet/EQ system is pro-
grammed to look for speaker pairs at the front
left/front right, surround left/surround right and
surround back left/surround back right positions.
If the tests to any of those three channel pairs
indicates that one, but not both of the speakers
in the pair is present, the menu will show
NONE
next to the speaker position where the tests did
not report back that a speaker is present. Should
this message appear, make note of the suspect
speaker location, exit all menus and turn the
receiver off. Check all speaker wire connections
and then rerun EzSet/EQ.
Figure 7g
When you have successfully completed the
EzSet/EQ process and made any needed adjust-
ments to the input and surround mode configu-
rations, your receiver is ready for use. If you do
not wish to make any manual adjustments to the
settings, you may skip the rest of this section and
proceed to the Basic Operation section of this
manual on page 32 to learn how to operate
AVR 147. For those situations where you may
wish to make a change to the settings entered by
EzSet/EQ, follow the instructions on the following
pages.
Manual Setup
Harman Kardon recommends that you use the
EzSet/EQ procedure described on pages 21 to
configure your receiver for operation. However,
you may manually configure your AVR if you
simply prefer to make your adjustments manually.
To begin manual setup using the full-OSD menu
system, press the OSD Button v so that the
MASTER MENU appears on screen. Press the
⁄ / ¤ Buttons n until the › cursor points
to the MANUAL SETUP line, and press the
Set Button p. The MANUAL SETUP menu
(Figure 8) will appear.
With the MASTER MENU on screen, press the
¤ Button n until the › cursor is pointing to
the MANUAL SETUP line, and press the Set
Button p. The MANUAL SETUP submenu
will appear (see Figure 8).
Figure 8
Adjust the submenus in the MANUAL SETUP
submenu in order, as some settings require that
previous settings be established first.
EzSet ACTIVATE: The first line in the Manual
Setup menu indicates whether you have run
EzSet/EQ and whether the settings obtained by
EzSet/EQ have been activated as the starting
point for manual setup. If you have run EzSet/EQ
but you wish to start the setup process from
scratch, use the
⁄ / ¤ Navigation Buttons
D to move the cursor to this line, and then use
the
‹ / › Navigation Buttons Ea to
change the setting to N O .
The next four lines of the Manual Setup menu
are used to access the four submenus used
during the setup process. Each submenu’s
settings are dependent upon the previous
submenu, and therefore we recommend you visit
the menus in the order shown.
Speaker Setup
This menu tells the AVR which type of speakers
are in use. This is important as it determines
which speakers receive low-frequency (bass)
information.
For each of these settings use the LARGE
setting if the speakers for a particular position
are traditional full-range loudspeakers that are
capable of reproducing sounds below 100Hz.
Use the
SMALL setting for smaller, frequency-
limited satellite speakers that do not reproduce
sounds below 100Hz. Note that when “small”
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