User manual ARCAM AVR280

[. . . ] H A N DBOOK AVR280 Arcam AVR280 surround sound receiver English Safety guidelines CAUTION RISK OF ELECTRIC SHOCK DO NOT OPEN ATTENTION RISQUE DE CHOC ELECTRIQUE NE PAS OUVRIR CAUTION: To reduce the risk of electric shock, do not remove cover (or back). Refer servicing to qualified service personnel. WARNING: To reduce the risk of fire or electric shock, do not expose this apparatus to rain or moisture. The lightning flash with an arrowhead symbol within an equilateral triangle, is intended to alert the user to the presence of uninsulated `dangerous voltage' within the product's enclosure that may be of sufficient magnitude to constitute a risk of electric shock to persons. [. . . ] Note that inserting headphones into the front panel of the AVR280 will cause all test-tones to be muted (including the headphone output). NOTE: If you are using a 6. 1 speaker configuration (a single surround back speaker), we recommend connecting the surround back speaker to the surround back left channel of the AVR280. In this case, the level of the connected surround back channel should be increased by 3dB (i. e. , the SPL meter should show a response of 78dB for this channel). 6 ­ EX Settings Surr. EX: This can either be set to AUTO or MANUAL and is applicable only when playing `Surround EX'-encoded material. < AUTO DD EX: The AVR280 will switch automatically to `Surround EX' decoding when suitably encoded material is detected (this can be temporarily overridden by pressing the MODE button on the remote control). < AUTO PLIIX: The AVR280 will switch automatically to `Pro Logic IIx Movie' decoding when suitably encoded material is detected (this can be temporarily overridden by pressing the MODE button on the remote control). < MANUAL: The AVR280 will not select Surround EX automatically. It can however be selected manually by pressing the MODE button. Use Channels 6+7 for Choose one from: < DOLBY SURR EX: `Dolby Surround EX' provides two additional rear channels from 5. 1 channel EX-encoded material. This is intended to give better effects steering. In this mode, amplifier channels 6 and 7 are used to drive the EX speakers. < ZONE 2: In this mode, amplifier channels 6 and 7 are used to provide speaker level output for use in Zone 2. < BIAMP L+R: The amplifier channel 6 and 7 are used to provide a second amplified output of the left and right channels. This allows you to bi-amplify your front speakers, which should give an improvement in the sound quality of these channels. If you would like to do this, please refer to page 26 for further information. NOTE: Changing this setting will require you to change the configuration of the cables connected your speakers. AVR280 16 The `Advanced' Set-up Menus ADV 1 ­ Speaker Eq. This allows fine adjustment of bass and treble in 1dB steps (up to ±6dB) for each of the speakers in the system. Use these adjustments sparingly to compensate for speaker response problems caused by positioning, adjacent surface textures, or mixed brands of loudspeakers. Work with one speaker on at a time and, as an example, use the bass control to reduce boom problems for speakers placed in corners, and the treble control for speakers placed near reflective surfaces. We recommend trying to obtain a good speaker response by speaker placement first, then apply speaker equalisation last. The tone control nominal corner frequencies are at 100Hz and 8kHz, shelf type. Auto Stereo Tone Bypass: Set this item to YES if, when a stereo input signal is detected (analogue or digital), the tone adjustments set on this page are to be bypassed. (Note that this does not switch the AVR280 into `Direct' mode, it simply sets the tone controls to zero. ) ADV 2 ­ Video Settings This menu allows advanced adjustment of the video settings for your AVR280. Zone 1 OSD: Selects whether the main zone OSD is on or off. < < When set to ON, all user adjustments that are made during the general use of the AVR280 are displayed on the screen. This includes the adjustment of the volume control, the inputs selected and the set-up menus. When set to OFF, there will be no display of the general user adjustments ­ only the set-up menus and the main menus are displayed. It is recommended you keep the OSD turned ON, since if you cannot see the front panel of the AVR280 you will have no idea if any adjustments you have made to the processor are correct or to your liking. Video Inputs: Composite and S-video inputs for DVD, Sat, AV, VCR and AUX have their audio and video assigned to track each other by default. The five `Video Input' lines for Tape, CD, FM, AM and DVD-A allow assignment of a video source to these normally audio-only sources. [. . . ] Main system control code, system code 16. Items shown in THIS STYLE indicate the equivalent remote control button of the supplied CR100 remote control. Command Stand-by On Zone 1 stand-by Power toggle Display (DIS) Menu (MENU) Info Command code 124 123 125 12 59 82 55 Command MODE Command code 32 106 107 108 109 102 110 111 112 103 104 105 Mono mode Stereo mode Dolby PLII Movie Dolby PLII Music (Reserved) Dolby PL Emulation DTS Neo:6 Cinema Mute Un-mute Mute toggle (MUTE) Volume up Volume down 119 120 13 16 17 DTS Neo:6 Music Dolby PLIIx Movie Dolby PLIIx Music (Reserved) Effect (FX) SAT input AV input TUNER input DVD input TAPE input VCR input 70 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 0 2 3 4 5 6 8 7 9 Effect off Effect: Music Effect: Party Effect: Club Effect: Hall Effect: Sport Effect: Church AUX input (AUX) CD input DVD-A input Trim menu (TRM) Sub trim menu (SUB) 37 51 50 84 Stereo Direct on Stereo Direct off Stereo Direct toggle 78 79 10 Lip sync. (SYN) Setup menu (SETUP) Satellite video Up Down Left Right OK 86 85 81 80 87 AV video DVD video Tape video VCR video Video standard 19 20 22 23 24 126 Zone 2 on from Zone 1 Zone 2 off from Zone 1 47 48 Preset/Tune down (P-) Preset/Tune up (P+) Preset/Tune mode toggle 57 56 54 AVR280 34 These extra commands on code 17 allow full control of the tuner in the AVR280 using the remote control supplied with the T61/T31. [. . . ]