41 7. Setup menu the setup is where all the user definable operating characteristics / calibrations / customized configurations are entered. For optimum performance and enjoyment, it is crucial that your avm 20 be properly set up. For ease of viewing, use of the on-screen display is strongly recomme...
42 7. Setup menu continued … 7.4 setting up the avm 20 with your tv monitor connected as described at the beginning of this section, enter the setup menu as described in section 7.1. Your on-screen display will show the following menu: note: due to the on-screen character size, your monitor will not...
43 7. Setup menu continued … example: rename aux to ‘game’. • enter the setup (section 7.1). Go to ‘1. Rename sources’ and press select. • press the ' button until you reach “c. Aux: aux”. • press select. The first character ‘a’ will be highlighted in red. • use the master control knob or the &' but...
44 digital: when you select digital and connect the digital output from your source component, you can still use the analog l/r connections from that same source component to provide analog input for the other paths (zone2, zone3, record, hphone). Audio/video-in format/main also allows for three oth...
45 7. Setup menu continued … example 2: adjust tape analog level. • make sure tape source component is connected to analog inputs and playing. • enter the setup (section 7.1). Go to ‘2. Audio/video-in format/main’ and press select. • press the ' button until you reach “d. Tape: anlg-dsp +0.0 db”. • ...
46 7. Setup menu continued … output of digital1 (when main is copied to rec): this isn’t really a setting on to its own, but is meant to indicate that main digital signal processing and digital1 output are the same – ‘b. 2-ch anlg-dsp’ and ‘c. Dig.1 when -main->rec’ are linked and change together. I...
47 subwoofer settings: you only have the flexibility to choose how bass information is distributed to your speakers if you have large left/right front speakers and a subwoofer as part of your home theatre speaker system. Options include: • ‘no’ all bass is routed to ‘large’ l/r front and surround sp...
48 7. Setup menu continued … advanced settings setup – subwoofer phase and polarity: you can also make precise subwoofer phase and polarity adjustments. These allow you to optimize the the bass performance of the subwoofer in your system as needed. Room acoustics vary. If you have the flexibility, e...
49 7. Setup menu continued … boundary gain compensation: if your chosen listening room layout (for practical or aesthetic reasons) results in the most of the listeners being close to the rear wall, the resulting bass level may be reinforced by the wall (boundary) so much that the overall sound quali...
50 7.4.5 listener position the listener position setup lets you enter the distance from each speaker to the listening area. Ideally, speakers should be placed at a similar distance so that their sound arrives at the listening area at the same time. Since this is not always possible, the avm 20 can d...
51 7. Setup menu continued … example 1: set right front speaker distance to 9.5 feet. • enter the setup (section 7.1). Go to ‘5. Listener position’ and press select. • press the ' button until you reach “d. Right front: 12.0 ft”. • use the "# buttons to change to ‘9.5 ft’. • when finished, press &' ...
52 level calibration: balances the speaker levels to one another. Since this setup calibrates all speaker levels for your listening area, use the remote control and sit in the primary listening position when calibrating speaker levels. Any speaker set to ‘none’ in the speaker configuration menu will...
53 procedure for setting bass peak level: • enter the setup (section 7.1). Go to ‘6. Speaker lvl calibration’ and press select. • press the ' button until you reach “6k. Set bass peak level” and press select. • press the ' button until you reach “b. Adjust level: –50.0 db”. • a test signal should be...
54 7. Setup menu continued … example: set zone2 maximum volume to –5.0 db. • enter the setup (section 7.1). Go to ‘7. Volumes’ and press select. • press the ' button until you reach “d. Zone2 max vol: +0.0 db”. • use the "# buttons to change to ‘–5.0 db’. • when finished, press &' to go to another m...
55 7. Setup menu continued … timer options: there are two timers for each zone to allow greater flexibility. You can set individual week and weekend auto-on/off times twice – once for timer1 and again for timer2. This allows you to have, for example, separate morning and afternoon settings: with t1,...
56 7. Setup menu continued … example 1: select a source for the zone2 timer: • enter the setup (section 7.1). Go to ‘8. Set timers/time’ and press select. • press the ' button until you reach “c. Set zone2 timers”. • press select. The ‘8c. Set zone2 timers’ submenu will appear. • press the ' button ...
57 7. Setup menu continued … all triggers: allows you to ‘enable’ or ‘disable’ all trigger options regardless of their settings. For custom installations, ‘rs-232 ctrl’ defeats the settings and allows external control over all triggers. Set trigger 1, 2, 3: under each of the four avm 20 paths, main ...
58 7. Setup menu continued … in other situations, the ir signal may find its way to the internally mounted rear ir receiver through the vents in the top cover. This could also cause confusion for the avm 20. If the rear ir receivers are not used, simply disable them to solve any possible problems. N...
59 7. Setup menu continued … 7.4.10 displays / timeout this menu allows you to configure both the on-screen display, front panel display and selection time. Main / z2 on-screen: lets you select the outputs that receive the on-screen display – ‘composite’, ‘s-video’, or both. ‘bypassed’ turns the on-...
60 7. Setup menu continued … function timeout: this is the time that elapses after any adjustment is made. Once the function time elapses, the on-screen text disappears and the front panel display becomes dim. This also applies to how long zone2, zone3, record, and headphone information is displayed...
61 7. Setup menu continued … example 1: save user settings. Note: fm • am tuner presets will also be saved in user settings. • enter the setup (section 7.1). Go to ‘11. Save/restore settings’ and press select. • upon entering this menu item, “11a. Save user settings” will be highlighted in red. • pr...
62 7.4.12 lockout / passwords passwords are used to protect the saved user and installer settings. Once you have set a password, it can also be used as a lockout to prevent settings from being changed by anyone without one of the passwords. Set setup menu lockout: when set to ‘yes’, this prevents an...