User manual HARMAN KARDON PM625

[. . . ] Whether the text appears in all uppercase or upper- and lowercase characters, performance and operation remain the same. Introduction Thank you for choosing Harman Kardon!With the purchase of a Harman Kardon PM625 you are about to begin many years of listening enjoyment. Designed to provide all the excitement and detail of movie soundtracks and every nuance of musical selections, the PM625 is truly a multichannel system for the new millennium. The PM625 has been engineered so that it is easy to take advantage of all the power of its digital technology. [. . . ] · MAXIMUM applies more compression so that louder passages are much softer. Feel free to experiment with the settings at any time. Audio Adjustment Figure 6 Step 4: Once the microphone is properly positioned and plugged in, first select the AUX input by pressing the OSD Button 8, followed by moving the M/N Navigation Buttons 9 until SYSTEM SETUP 19 System Setup the AUX input is highlighted in dark blue. Next proceed to the SET-UP menu, and move the cursor to the Audio Adjustments line. Next, press the M/N Navigation Buttons 9 to move the on-screen cursor to the EZSET/EQ SETUP menu line. Press the Enter Button 6 to move to the next screen. Continue these instructions with Step 8. Figure 6c Step 6. At this point you will begin to hear a series of test tones circulate among all the speakers in your system. While this is happening, the PM625 is reading the signal to determine which speaker positions are active, what type of speaker is present at each active position, what the distance is from the listening position to each speaker, and to begin to build a profile of the impact of the room's acoustics on the quality of audio reproduction. When the test is completed you will hear the tones stop, and the system will pause for as long as a minute while the processor makes its calculations. Do not be alarmed if the "WARNING" message remains on the screen after tones stop until a results message is displayed as shown in Step 6 or 7, below. NOTE: While these tests detect whether a speaker is connected to a particular output, they cannot determine whether the speaker is in the correct position. Inexpensive foam-style ear plugs, available at most drug stores, may be used to reduce the sound level to a tolerable level. If you are uncomfortable with, or cannot tolerate, loud sounds and do not use some sort of ear protection, we strongly recommend that you leave the room and ask someone else to run the EzSet/EQ process, or that you do not use EzSet/EQ and enter the configuration settings manually, as described on page 21. Figure 6f Step 9. During the Near Field testing, (Figure 6f), you will see an instruction to place the microphone in a different position than the one used for the initial Far Field measurements. This 20 SYSTEM SETUP System Setup time, place the microphone close to the speaker to be measured, at a distance of about 1 meter. In addition, the top of the microphone should be pointed towards the speaker, rather than pointing up as was done for the Far Field tests. For the first measurement, place the microphone so that it is close to, and pointing towards, the front left speaker, and press the ENTER Button 6. One short test signal will be sent to the speaker position being calibrated and after a slight pause from the system to calculate the test results, you will see either the next Near Field Measurement screen, or a "Testing Error" screen. In most cases, the "next Near Field Measurement" message will appear, in which case you should proceed to Step 11, if an "Error" message appears, go to Step 12. If the test results were successful, the next Near Field Measurement screen will appear. In order to properly calibrate the system, you will need to run the Near Field tests for all five channel speakers. Repeat Steps 8 through 11 until all speakers have been calibrated. [. . . ] DVD A disc that contains up to 8 hours of moving pictures even though its diameter is the same as a CD. The data capacity of a single-layer and single-sided DVD, at 4. 7 GB (Giga Byte), is 7 times that of a CD. Furthermore, the data capacity of a dual-layer and single-sided DVD is 8. 5 GB, a single-layer and double-sided DVD 9. 4 GB, and a dual-layer and double-sided DVD 17 GB. The picture data uses the MPEG 2 format, one of the worldwide standards of digital compression technology. [. . . ]