User manual HARMAN KARDON A1040

[. . . ] Whether the text appears in all uppercase or upper- and lowercase characters, performance and operation remain the same. 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction Thank you for choosing Harman Kardon!With the purchase of a Harman Kardon A1040 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 A1040 is truly a multichannel receiver for the new millennium. In addition to the traditional 5. 1 digital decoding modes such as Dolby Digital and DTS, it offers the latest advancements in surround technology such as Dolby Pro Logic II and IIx, the full suite of DTS-ES 6. 1 modes, DTS Neo:6 and the latest 7. 1 channel versions of Harman's own Logic 7 technology. [. . . ] When all speaker selections have been made, press the < Button E until the Speakertab on the left is highlighted in white. Figure 27 To change the setting for any of the four speaker groups Left/Right, Center, Surround or Surround Back, press the //¤ Buttons D until the line where you wish to make a change is highlighted in blue, press the Set Button F followed by the </ > Buttons Ea until the desired setting appears. The available choices at which point low-frequency information will be sent to the subwoofer (or to the Front Left/Right speakers in case subwoofer is set to OFF), rather than to the speaker channel, are 40Hz, 60Hz, 80Hz, 100Hz, 120Hz, 150Hz and 200Hz. Pick the choice that is identical to the information for the speakers, or if an exact match is not possible, pick the closest choice that is ABOVE the speaker's lowfrequency limit to avoid the creation of a low-frequency "hole" where your system will have no bass information and press the Set Button F to confirm your choice. In cases where LARGE has been selected as the front channel speaker option and SUB L/R+LFE has been selected as the subwoofer option, the front channel sound information below the crossover point selected for the L/R front speakers (when fronts are set to "Small") will be sent to BOTH the front channel speakers and the subwoofer. The crossover settings for the Left/Right, Center, Surround and Surround Back speakers are used to determine where bass information is sent when it is derived from the main channels of a source. The setting for the menu line shown as Subwoofer is used to impose a low-pass filter point for the information in the Low Frequency Effects (LFE) channel that is a part of Dolby Digital- and DTS-encoded source material. While the LFE channel, which is the ". 1" you see in surround sound designations, is restricted to low frequency sounds, some mixes may include information that is higher in frequency than your subwoofer is capable of reproducing. To prevent unwanted sounds from being sent to subwoofers that cannot handle them and which do not have a built-in low-pass filter, the Subwoofer option line enables you to select a setting for the low-pass filter that is part of the subwoofer feed from the LFE channel. The settings available are the same as those tied to any one of the four available speaker positions on this submenu. We recommend that you use the frequency that is just slightly higher than the 10. To start with the delay settings at first select the SPEAKER SETUP - Delay (Figure 28). If the system is not already at that point, press the OSD button L to bring up the main menu. Press the ¤ Button D twice or until the Speaker -tab is highlighted in white. Press the Set Button F twice, followed by the ¤ Button D until the Delay Adj -line is highlighted in blue. Next move the blue bar down to the Unit line, press Set F and select the unit for distances you prefer to enter, feet or meter with the use of the < / > Buttons Ea. Then move the blue bar to the Front Left line where the first adjustment is made, and press the Set Button F. Now press the < / > Buttons Ea until the distance from the front left speaker to the preferred listening position is entered followed by the Set Button F to confirm your choice. Next press the ¤ Button D once to move to the next line. Now the blue bar will highlight the Centerline so that the delay for the center speaker may be set. Press Set F followed by the the < / > Buttons Ea until the distance from the main listening position to the center speaker is entered. Repeat the procedure for all active speaker positions by pressing the ¤ Button D again and use the < / > Buttons Ea to change the setting. [. . . ] Harman Kardon, The Bridge and Logic 7 are registered trademarks of Harman International Industries, Incorporated. is a trademark of Harman International Industries, Inc. *Manufactured under license from Dolby Laboratories. "Dolby, " "Pro Logic" and the Double-D symbol are trademarks of Dolby Laboratories. [. . . ]