28 SYSTEM CONFIGURATION
• If a subwoofer is connected and you wish to
use it for bass reproduction in conjunction with
the main front left/right speakers, regardless of
the type of program source or Surround mode
you are listening to, press the
‹
/
›
Buttons
E
on the remote so that SUBL/R+LFE
appears in the on-screen menu.When this
option is selected, a full-range signal will be
sent to the front left/right “main” speakers.The
subwoofer will receive the front left and right
bass frequencies under the crossover frequency
selected in another setting on this menu, as
described below, and also the LFE soundtrack.
After making any required changes to the Sub-
woofer Mode line, press the
⁄
/
¤
Navigation
Button
E
to move the cursor to the SUB
SIZE
line. The setting on this line enters the
data of the size of your subwoofer’s driver so that
the proper gain, filters and equalization settings
will be used with EzSet/EQ.
To change the setting, make certain that the cur-
sor is on the
SUB SIZEline and press the
⁄
/
¤
Navigation Button
E
, so that the set-
ting appears that matches the diameter of your
subwoofer’s driver. If you do not remember what
the size is, you can either measure the driver’s
diameter or consult the owner’s manual for the
speaker.
When you have completed the settings for speak-
er “size”, press the
⁄
/
¤
Navigation Button
E
to move the cursor to the BACKTO
MANUALSETUP
line to continue your
adjustments. It is also important to remember to
re-run the EzSet/EQ system if any changes have
been made to the settings on this menu, follow-
ing the instructions shown on page 26 for using
the Manual mode.
Speaker Crossover Setting
When all initial speaker “size” settings have been
made, you now have the option to take advantage
of the AVR’s Quadruple Crossover system, which
allows individual crossover settings to be made for
each speaker grouping set to "Small".The low-fre-
quency crossover point is set by the design of your
speakers.
Note: if the Speaker is set to Large in Speaker
Size menu the crossover is automatically set to
40Hz when EzSet/EQ runs.
It is defined as the frequency which is the lowest
possible frequency the speaker is capable of repro-
ducing, or the frequency at which sound is sent to
the speaker’s internal low-frequency driver, as
opposed to the mid-range driver. The settings on
the
SPKRX-OVERmenu also allow you to
set the high pass filter that determines which fre-
quencies go to the subwoofer when the AVR 435
is playing back the low frequency effects (LFE)
channel from a digital soundtrack.
Before making any changes to the settings for the
crossover point we suggest that you find the
crossover point for the speakers in each of the four
groupings, front left/right, center, surround and
surround back by looking at the specifications
page of the speaker’s owner’s manual, by getting
that information from the manufacturer’s Web site,
or by contacting your dealer or the manufacturer’s
customer service department.You will need this
figure to accurately configure the next group of
settings.
The factory default setting for all speaker positions is
100Hz. If that setting is acceptable for all channels,
then no adjustments are needed and you may skip
this section.
To make changes to the speaker crossovers or
LFE high-pass filter setting, go to the
SPKRX-
OVER
submenu within the MANUAL
SETUP
menu (Fig. 8).To do this, first press the
OSD Button
L
so that the MASTER
MENU
(Figure 1) appears. Next, press the
‹
/
›
Navigation Button
E
until the cursor is on
the
MANUALSETUP line on the menu in use
and press the Set Button
F
.When the
MANUALSETUP menu is shown, press the
‹
/
›
Navigation Button
E
again until the
cursor is on the
SPEAKERX-OVER line
and press the Set Button
F
to view the
SPKRX-OVERmenu (Figure 10).
Figure 10
To change the setting for any of the four speaker
groups Left/Right, Center, Surrounds or Surround
Back, press the
⁄
/
¤
Buttons
E
until the cur-
sor is next to the line where you wish to make a
change and then press the
‹
/
›
Buttons
E
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.
When any needed adjustments are made to the
crossovers, one additional adjustment is available
to custom tailor the way information is sent to
the subwoofer.The
LFE LP FLTline
adjusts the frequency cutoff of the low pass filter
that determines the frequency at which informa-
tion is sent to the subwoofer when playing a digi-
tal soundtrack that has a dedicated low frequen-
cy effects channel. In most cases the default fre-
quency of 120Hz is appropriate, since that is the
frequency most commonly used in the creation of
LFE channels during a movie’s sound mixing
process. However, you may wish to change the
setting based on your individual preference or the
characteristics and capabilities of your subwoofer.
To change this setting when the
SPEAKER
X-OVER
menu is on the screen, press the
⁄
/
¤
Navigation Button
E
until the cursor
is on the
LFE LP FLTline and then press
the
‹
/
›
Navigation Button
E
until the
desired setting is shown in highlighted video.
When all changes to Speaker Crossover settings
have been made, press the
⁄
/
¤
Navigation
Button
E
until the cursor is on the BACK
TOMANUALSETUP
menu and then press-
ing the Set Button
F
so that you may make
any other adjustments to the system parameters.
It is also important to remember to rerun the
EzSet/EQ system if any changes have been made
to the settings on this menu, following the
instructions shown on page 26 for using the
Manual mode.
The Speaker Configuration may also be changed
at any time without using the full-OSD on-screen
menu system by pressing the Speaker Selector
6
on the front panel or
b
on the remote con-
trol. Once the button is pressed,
FRONT
SPEAKER
will appear in both the lower third
of the video display and the Main Information
Display
˜
.
Within five seconds, either press the
‹
/
›
buttons
7$
on the front panel or the
⁄
/
¤
buttons
E
on the remote to select a different speaker
position, or press the Set Button
@
F
to begin
the adjustment process for the front left and right
speakers.
When the Set button
@
F
has been pressed
and the system is ready for a change to the front
speaker setting, the on-screen display and Main
Information Display
˜
will read FRONT
LARGE
or FRONTSMALL depending on
the current setting. Press the
‹
/
›
buttons
7$
on the front panel or the
⁄
/
¤
buttons
E
on
the remote until the desired setting is shown,
using the instructions for “large” or “small”
shown earlier, then press the Set button
@
F
.
If another speaker position needs to be changed,
press the
‹
/
›
buttons
7$
on the front panel
or the
⁄
/
¤
buttons
E
on the remote to select
a different speaker position, press the Set button
@
F
and then the
‹
/
›
buttons
7$
on the
front panel or the
⁄
/
¤
buttons
E
on the
remote until the correct speaker setting is shown
and press the Set button
@
F
again to con-
firm the selection.
