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Anthem AVM 20 v2.2x Addendum

Manual is about: audio processor

Summary of AVM 20 v2.2x

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    Copyright © sonic frontiers international. All rights reserved. The information contained herein may not be reproduced in whole or in part without our express written permission. Anthem and the anthem logo are trademarks of sonic frontiers international. All other trademarks are the property of thei...

  • Page 2: 5. Front Panel Operation

    5.8 surround modes a surround mode is signal processing that enhances original source material. There are two main types of surround modes – those that apply to stereo source material and those that pertain to 5.1-channel source material. Factory defaults for surround modes are set so that all of yo...

  • Page 3: 5. Front Panel Operation

    Various surround modes produce 6.1 or 7.1 channels of output. If you are using a 5.1 system and have rears set to ‘none’ (speaker configuration menu – section 7.4.2), rear channel information is not lost, but remains in the l/r surround speakers. 5.8.1 anthemlogic ™ these are proprietary surround mo...

  • Page 4: 5. Front Panel Operation

    26 5. Front panel operation continued … 5.8.3 surround modes for 2.0-channel source material number of output channels for each mode is indicated below in bold type – ‘.1’ refers to a subwoofer signal derived through bass management, not a separate channel (see section 7.4.2). Press mode, then rotat...

  • Page 5: 5. Front Panel Operation

    5. Front panel operation continued … 5.8.4 dolby digital ex / pro logic iix for 5.1 sources dolby digital ex and pro logic iix can be used to decode dvds encoded in dolby digital surround ex by extracting rear channel information from the two surround channels. Dolby digital ex creates a mono rear s...

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    28 • adaptive decorrelation – in a movie theatre, a large number of surround speakers help create an enveloping surround sound experience, but in a home theatre there are usually only two speakers. Unless you are using properly positioned dipoles, surround speakers can sound like headphones that lac...

  • Page 7: 5. Front Panel Operation

    Thx surround ex: 6.1 output with dolby digital surround ex processing: re-equalization,timbre matching thx surround ex – dolby digital surround ex is a joint development of dolby laboratories and the thx division of lucasfilm ltd. In a movie theater, film soundtracks that have been encoded with dolb...

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    30 5. Front panel operation continued … program decoding / processing thx available outputs thx processing stereo selected mode off up to 7.1 off pliix movie † thx cinema 7.1 re-eq, timbre pliix games thx games mode 7.1 timbre, asa (gam) dolby pro logic thx cinema 5.1 re-eq, timbre, adp-decor neo:6 ...

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    31 5. Front panel operation continued … dimension: adjust using mck (or n/s keys) front-to-back balance – center (c----+----s) surrounds dolby pliix music (7.1) anthemlogic-music (6.1) stereo (2-ch) press mode preset info in section 7.4.5 cycle through modes and thx using master control knob (or nor...

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    32 5. Front panel operation continued … thx options press thx press thx twice thx surround ex processing – re-eq, timbre matching output channels – all re-eq: on/off using mck (or n/s keys) thx options press thx press thx twice thx cinema processing – re-eq, timbre matching, adp.Decorrelation output...

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    33 5. Front panel operation continued … 5.8.9 mode and thx operation for dts program material – to make all modes available, turn thx off. Thx cinema processing – re-eq, timbre matching, adp.Decorrelation output channels – 5.1 (lf, c, rf, rs, ls, sub) thx ultra2 cinema processing – re-eq, timbre, ad...

  • Page 12: 7. Setup Menu

    52 7.4.5 source setup / presets for each source, you can change the name and, where applicable, assign digital audio and component video input, assign speaker configuration, adjust equalization, and set lip-sync delay. You can also pre-select surround modes that take effect for each source when the ...

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    53 7. Setup menu continued … rename source: the factory assigned source names that appear on the front panel display and the on-screen display can be changed to another name, up to six characters long. The following characters are available: a, b, c....Z, a, b, c....Z, blank, dash (–), period (.), s...

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    54 7. Setup menu continued … speaker configuration (applies to main only): choose between cinema (menu 2a.) or music (menu 2b.) configuration – see section 7.4.2. A third and unique choice is also available: auto-lfe. When selected, the avm 20 automatically uses the cinema configuration if there is ...

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    55 7. Setup menu continued … source setup/preset examples example 1: rename aux to ‘game’. • enter the setup (section 7.1). Go to ‘5. Source setup / presets’ and press select. • press the 6 button until you reach ‘j. Aux’ and press select. • ‘a. Rename: aux’ will be highlighted in red. • press selec...

  • Page 16: Appendix A – Ir Macros

    5 / 3 0 / 0 5 o m - 8 0 0 a for stereo sources: mode, 0, 1 – stereo mode, 0, 2 – anthemlogic-music mode, 0, 3 – anthemlogic-cinema mode, 0, 4 – pro logic iix music mode, 0, 5 – pro logic iix movie mode, 0, 6 – dolby pro logic mode, 0, 7 – dts neo:6 music mode, 0, 8 – dts neo:6 cinema mode, 0, 9 – al...