AVR 240 User Manual

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Delay Settings

Due to the different distances between the listening

osition for the front channel speakers and the sur-

ound speakers, the amount of time it takes for sound

to reach your ears from the front versus surround

speakers differs. You may compensate for this differ-

ence through the use of the delay settings to adjust

he timing for the speaker placement and acoustic

conditions in your listening room or home theater.

If you have already calibrated your system using

EzSet+ the delay settings shown will reflect the results

of the measurements made by EzSet+. No further

changes are needed unless you wish to change an

item to reflect your taste or a nonstandard system

configuration. To change the settings, follow the

instructions below to enter the distance between the

speaker’s location and your main listening position.

The measurements need not be accurate to the inch,

as the system is designed to accommodate typical

listening rather than a specific “sweet spot” position.

In addition to adjusting the delay time for each individ-

ual speaker position, the AVR 240 allows you to adjust

the delay for the combined output of all speakers as a

group. This feature is called A/V Sync Delay; it allows

you to compensate for delays to the video image that

may be caused by the processing in products such as

digital video displays, video scalers, digital cable or

satellite systems, or personal video recorders. With

proper adjustment of the setting for A/V Sync Delay,

you can eliminate the loss of lip sync that may be

caused by digital video applications.

Although EzSet+ calculates the delay settings for the

individual speaker positions with very accurate results,

the setting for A/V Sync Delay may only be done

manually

since it requires that you obser

ve the pro

gram material on your video display while adjusting

the delay

if any, required for the specific source. Thus,

even though you may have used EzSet+ for other

delay settings

the A/V Sync Delay should still be

configured as outlined below.

Due to the differences in the way each surround

mode operates, the delay settings must be established

individually for each surround mode

However

, once

the delay settings are configured for the version of the

surround mode with the most channels, they need not

be entered again for a version of that mode with fewer

channels.

or example

once the delay settings are

established for Dolby Pro Logic IIx – Movie, they will

be carried over to Dolby Pro Logic II – Movie mode.

However

, you will need to enter the delay settings sep-

arately for each variant mode, such as Dolby Pro

Logic IIx – Music

Dolby Pro Logic IIx – Game, Dolby

Pro Logic

Dolby 3 Stereo and Dolby Digital EX.

elay times are adjustable for all surround modes.

lthough all channels will appear on screen with the

default or previously entered distances, the menu sys-

tem will only allow you to adjust the settings for those

channels which are actually used by the current sur-

ound mode. For example, when you are listening to

music CDs using the CD input in DSP Surround Off

mode, you may adjust the delay settings for the front

left, front right and subwoofer channels only. The cur-

or will simply skip the other channels as you navigate

hrough the menu. Therefore, the first time you adjust

the delay settings, it is recommended that you select a

5.1-, 6.1- or 7.1-channel surround mode, depending

on the number of speakers in your system. For the

purposes of setting the delay distances, the Logic 7

modes allow access to the settings for all channels

without requiring that you play a source.

To set the delay time for a specific input, the

DELAY ADJUST submenu (Figure 10) should

be visible on your on-screen display. If it is not, press

the

OSD Button v to bring up the MASTER

, and press the

Button n until the

on-screen

›

cursor is pointing at the MANUAL

SETUP

line. Press the Set Button p to enter

the

MANUAL SETUP submenu, and then scroll

down using the

¤ Button n until the › cursor

is pointing to the

DELAY ADJUST line. Press

the

Set Button p again, and the DELAY

ADJUST

submenu will appear (see Figure 14).

Figure 14

Once the DELAY

ADJUST

menu is on your

screen, note that the default setting to enter the dis-

tances from the speakers to the listening position is in

feet. If your measurements are in feet, proceed to the

next step; if your measurements are made in meters,

press the

Button n until the on-screen

›

cursor

is at the

UNIT line on the menu. Then,

press the

‹

›

Buttons o so that METER is highlighted.

When the change in measurement units is made,

press the

⁄

Buttons n to return the

›

cursor

to the

FL position.

With the on-screen

›

cursor pointing to FL,

press

the

‹

›

Buttons o until the distance from the

front left speaker to the preferred listening position

is entered. Next, press the

Button n to move

the cursor to the

CENTER line and use the

‹

›

Buttons o again to enter the distance from the

enter speaker to the listening position. Continue in

this fashion to enter the distance from the listening

position to each of the front right

(FR), surround

right

(SR), surround back right (SBR), sur-

ound back left

(

SBL)

surround left

(

SL)

ubwoofer

(

SUB)

peakers. Remember that the

SBL and SBR adjustments will only be needed

when you have surround back speakers installed.

If you wish to reset the delay settings to their factory

defaults at any time, use the

⁄

Buttons n so

that the cursor is pointing to

DELAY RESET

and then press the

‹

›

Buttons o so that OFF

appears. The factory settings shown in Figure 14 will

then be restored.

A/V Sync Delay

If you have a digital video source or a digital video dis-

play that causes lack of lip sync you may use the A/V

Sync adjust feature to delay the audio signal as it is

sent to

all channels (as opposed to the individual set-

tings) so that the picture and sound are brought back

together. We recommend that this adjustment be

made using the direct access controls on the remote,

as shown below. That enables you to see the image

while making the adjustment; however, you may also

adjust it here using the menu system.

To adjust the A/V Sync delay, press the

⁄

Buttons n so that the

›

cursor is pointing to the

A/V SYNC DELAY line on the menu and then

press the

‹

›

Buttons o to delay the sound suffi-

ciently so that it matches the on-screen video.

Since the A/V Sync Delay setting is best made while

viewing the video program that is out of sync with its

audio track, we strongly recommend that method

rather than using the menu system. To do that, first

press the

Delay Select Button Z on the remote

The A/V

Sync Delay setting appears first, and it may be

adjusted

by pressing the Set Button p within five

seconds of when the

A/V SYNC DELAY

message appears in the on-screen display and the

wer Display Line

ı.

Then, press the

‹

›

Buttons o to enter the desired delay setting that

brings the video and sound back in sync. Press the

Set Button p again to enter the setting

Note that the A/V Sync delay setting is unique to

each video input source

so you may enter a different

setting to compensate for the differences between

any product attached to the DVD or Video 1, 2, 3

or 4 inputs

When the speaker-to-listening-position distance has

been entered for all active speaker positions, press the

⁄

Buttons n until the on-screen cursor is next

BACK TO MANUAL SETUP and press

the

Set Button p.

* DELAY ADJUST *

L : 10FT SBR: 10FT

CEN: 10FT SBL: 10FT

R : 10FT SL : 10FT

SR : 10FT SUB: 10FT

DELAY RESET:OFF

UNIT: FEET

A/V SYNC DELAY:OmS

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