Technical Sound Guide

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1 Technical Sound Guide

2 Setup: Sound: Sound Adjustment Selecting this menu will move you to the Sound Adjustment menu where you can wide parameters. Note that your television may not be equipped with all features and functions mentioned in this guide. Setup: Sound: Sound Modes The Sound Modes on the television For example, you may wish to have a more purist signal path when listening to music. Sound Modes allow you to these changes. materials such as Movies, Games, Speech (i.e. TV News), Drama (i.e. regular television programmes), Sports, and Music. In addition, the CUSTOM sound designed as a purist direct mode music setting. mode. page 4), then your custom settings are Setup: Sound: Speaker Groups loudspeakers that determine which speakers are playing, what audio channels they are assigned to, and their listening position. Speaker Groups on the television. Typically, only 9 Speaker Groups are displayed: moving the cursor to the ninth Speaker Group revals a show all Setup: Sound: Speaker Connections Select this menu item to move to the menu where you assign the loudspeaker models that are connected to the Power Link outputs and wireless connections. Setup: Sound: Sound Info Select this menu item to display outgoing audio signals, including the channels in the incoming stream. Also displayed are the current Sound Mode and Speaker Group. 2 Version 1.6

3 Setup: Sound: Sound Adjustment: Volume This menu displays the current volume Setup: Sound: Sound Adjustment: Bass control is applied to all Sound Modes and Speaker Groups, and is independent Gain (db) Bass Control Magnitude Responses ,000 10,000 Frequency (Hz) all settings of the Bass control. Note that this response is applied to each input channel. Setup: Sound: Sound Adjustment: Treble control is applied to all Sound Modes and Speaker Groups, and is independent Gain (db) Treble Control Magnitude Responses ,000 10,000 Frequency (Hz) all settings of the Treble control. Note that this response is applied to each input channel. Setup: Sound: Sound Adjustment: Max Volume The Max Volume is the highest volume setting that is allowed in normal usage. Step Size: 1. 3

4 Setup: Sound: Sound Adjustment: Headphones sensitivity. with a high sensitivity, then they will sound louder than your loudspeakers at to a lower level, matching the loudspeakers output levels. headphone output. In the case where Setup: Sound: Sound Adjustment: Eco Mode When the Eco Mode is turned on, then loudspeakers that are not currently in loudspeakers associated with the current the television. Mode setting is also dependent on the Processing (under Sound Modes: Advanced Settings: Spatial Controls) is set to 1:1, the loudspeakers that are currently switched on, are those that are associated with the input channel Setup: Sound: Sound Modes: Adaptive metadata in the signal stream (in the the Adaptive setting are: Movie, Game, Speech, Drama, Sports, Music. Setup: Sound: Sound Modes: Movie streaming sources, or television management is on. The TrueImage are set to the middle position. Setup: Sound: Sound Modes: Game on. The TrueImage processing is on and its controls are set to elevate the image 4 envelopment and surround.

5 Setup: Sound: Sound Modes: Speech signals where an increased speech television news programmes. The Speech Enhance setting is increased, and spatial controls are set to present a more narrow sound image. Setup: Sound: Sound Modes: Drama The Drama Sound Mode is designed management is on. The TrueImage are set to the middle position. Dynamic range compression is on and set to medium to reduce the volume changes Setup: Sound: Sound Modes: Sports sporting events. management is on. The TrueImage processing is on and its controls are set and envelopment in the audio signal. Dynamic Range compression is set to medium. Setup: Sound: Sound Modes: Music without accompanying video. Note that this mode is not designed as a all loudspeakers in your current Speaker Group. direct mode. Setup: Sound: Sound Modes: Custom this mode is to deliver the same signals that the artist and the recording and mastering engineers heard during the recording process. processing is set to 1:1. Setup: Sound: Sound Modes: Night Listening The Night Listening Sound Mode is audio signal without large jumps in television s dynamic range compression is set to maximum and the speech enhancement is increased slightly. 5 in a party situation where it is relatively high) listening level.

6 Setup: Sound: Sound Modes: PRESETNAME: Frequency Tilt Tilt is set to a low value, the low setting. Modes. Gain (db) Frequency Tilt Magnitude Responses ,000 10,000 Frequency (Hz) Frequency response measurements of all settings of the Frequency Tilt control. Note that this response is applied to each input channel. Setup: Sound: Sound Modes: PRESETNAME: Sound Enhance The Sound Enhance setting is similar to Sound Enhance value will increase the reducing the midrange. Decreasing the Sound Enhance value will have the The Sound Enhance setting will have no setting. Note that Sound Enhance can have Modes. Gain (db) Sound Enhance Magnitude Responses ,000 10,000 Frequency (Hz) Frequency response measurements of all settings of the Sound Enhance control. Note that this response is applied to each input channel. Setup: Sound: Sound Modes: PRESETNAME: Speech Enhance The Speech Enhance setting allows you making speech and voices easier to understand. Note that the Speech Enhance setting when it is at its lowest setting. 6

7 Setup: Sound: Sound Modes: PRESETNAME: Loudness with listening level. We are less sensitive you are listening to music at a high level and you turn down the volume, you will notice that, the lower the volume, the extent. The Loudness setting in your television are automatically increased to Note that the Loudness toggle (whether control. Setup: Sound: Sound Modes: PRESETNAME: Bass Management Management is on, then the low content in your main audio channels will speakers in your system. Note, however, and smaller loudspeakers (such as main input channels or the LFE input) document. Advanced Settings menu. (via Setup: Sound: Speaker Groups: PRESETNAME: 7

8 Setup: Sound: Sound Modes: PRESETNAME: Balance L/R etc.) Setup: Sound: Sound Modes: PRESETNAME: Fader B/F loudspeaker in your current Speaker Setup: Sound: Sound Modes: PRESETNAME: Dynamics Control peaks in the signal to avoid waking constantly loud level. Settings: Dynamics Control. to OFF in the Advanced Settings, then turning the Dynamics Control ON in this the Compression is set to Medium or the audio signals. 8

9 Setup: Sound: Sound Modes: PRESETNAME: Listening Style activity is listening to the audio signal to music or watching a movie, then you should set this setting to ACTIVE party or dinner, then this option should Traditionally, audio systems and most listening, with the assumption that the listener and loudspeakers are positioned correctly, and that the primary activity signal. In this situation, each loudspeaker produces its own dedicated loudspeaker). This results in the optimal instruments and voices in the sound stage). not positioned correctly and the audio is instruments locations will move into the loudspeaker that is closest to the Setup: Sound: Sound Modes: PRESETNAME: Advanced Settings Selecting this menu item will result in moving to the Advanced Settings menu Setup: Sound: Sound Modes: PRESETNAME: Reset to Default Sound Enhance, Speech Enhance, Listening Style and all Advanced Note that other Sound Modes will not Setup: Sound: Sound Modes: PRESETNAME: Advanced Settings: LFE Input the name implies, and there are no such in multichannel music releases, whether there is a signal on the LFE channel. This is, in almost all cases, generated in the mastering studio, using a system very who (correctly) choose to not put any alternative purposes (see the LFE Input to Ceiling option). 9 that extra unwanted audio does not (unless programmed to do otherwise) route the LFE channel to the smaller loudspeakers.

10 Setup: Sound: Sound Modes: PRESETNAME: Advanced Settings: Loudness Selecting this menu will result in moving Setup: Sound: Sound Modes: PRESETNAME: Advanced Settings: Spatial Controls Selecting this menu will result in moving television s Spatial Controls. Setup: Sound: Sound Modes: PRESETNAME: Advanced Settings: Dynamics Control Selecting this menu will result in moving television s Dynamics Controls. release (as well as many music recordings) have a very wide dynamic range. This means that there is a very and loudest moments in the movie. The Dynamics Control settings on the television give you the option to reduce (a process known as compression, since audio signal). This allows you to enjoy your household. Setup: Sound: Sound Modes: PRESETNAME: Advanced Settings: Loudness: Bass Max Boost content when the overall listening level (i.e. the volume) is decreased. The levels. Gain (db) ,000 10,000 Frequency (Hz) An example of the effect of the Loudness on the frequency response of the system at different volume settings. The lowest curve is for a high volume setting. The highest curve represents the response at a low volume setting. In this example, the Treble Max Boost is set to 9 db. 10

11 Setup: Sound: Sound Modes: PRESETNAME: Advanced Settings: Loudness: Treble Max Boost This setting is essentially identical to the Setup: Sound: Sound Modes: PRESETNAME: Advanced Settings: Loudness: Reset to Default will return the Loudness Advanced Note that other Sound Modes will not Setup: Sound: Sound Modes: PRESETNAME: Advanced Settings: Spatial Controls: Balance L/R Setup: Sound: Sound Modes: PRESETNAME: Advanced Settings: Spatial Controls: Fader B/F 11

12 Setup: Sound: Sound Modes: PRESETNAME: Advanced Settings: Spatial Controls: Processing example, you may have two audio signal. Conversely, you may have a to all loudspeakers. Surround Height 0º Centre Front 30º Right Front Centre Front Height Right 60º Front Right Height Wide Ceiling Right 90º Surround Right 110º Surround Height 140º Right Back 180º Centre Back television. The TrueImage processor delivers a unique output to each of these output channels. Ceiling Front Height these tasks dynamically, downmixing or upmixing any incoming signal so that all loudspeakers. processor means that signals in the example, in an upmixing situation, wish to have a direct connection instances where some input channels channel input, only two input channels dependent on the speaker roles selected Back Surround Front and Right Front loudspeakers will input channels and their channel assignments matches the speaker roles, to the middle position, then the Surround, and Right Surround) and a sliders are in the middle positions, then 12 source (i.e. a CD) then the TrueImage processor will upmix the signal to the 5.1 outputs. Front Wide the television In the case where you wish to have the you can choose to use the DOWNMIX stereo sources are played through only two loudspeakers, then this option DOWNMIX processing mode. Also note that, in DOWNMIX mode, there are two Continues

13 Front loudspeakers. The second case is when you have a 6.1 input and a 7.1 Setup: Sound: Sound Modes: PRESETNAME: Advanced Settings: Spatial Controls: Surround The Surround setting allows you to TrueImage processor. Note that changes in the Surround when the Processing is set to 1:1 or Downmix. Setup: Sound: Sound Modes: PRESETNAME: Advanced Settings: Spatial Controls: Height signals sent to all loudspeakers in your loudspeakers in your system. loudspeakers. loudspeaker. In this case, to ensure that See also LFE Input to Ceiling. Setup: Sound: Sound Modes: PRESETNAME: Advanced Settings: Spatial Controls: Stage Width in the sound stage. At a minimum setting, the images will collapse to the This allows you to control the perceived sit in the sweet spot, at roughly the loudspeakers, then you should increase the Stage Width setting somewhat. since it is unnecessary to use the centre seated, the more reducing the Stage Width value will improve the centre image location. Note that changes in the Stage Width when the Processing is set to 1:1 or Downmix. 13

14 Setup: Sound: Sound Modes: PRESETNAME: Advanced Settings: Spatial Controls: Envelopment The Envelopment setting allows you to minimum setting, the surround maximum setting, the surround in the Envelopment setting will have no is set to 1:1 or Downmix. Setup: Sound: Sound Modes: PRESETNAME: Advanced Settings: Spatial Controls: Reset to Default will return all Spatial Control settings Note that other Sound Modes will not Setup: Sound: Sound Modes: PRESETNAME: Advanced Settings: Dynamics Control: Compression There are many instances where it is television advertisements are typically much louder than the programme they watch movies late at night without constant level. compression applied to the audio signal determined using the Compression Dynamics Control. 14

15 Setup: Sound: Sound Modes: PRESETNAME: Advanced Settings: Dynamics Control: Clip Protection protecting its outputs to ensure that the protection is that output signals setting the Clip Protection to OFF, which your input signal, settings, and volume level, where one or more output signals exact conditions, and is thus recommended that, unless you are have Clip Protection set to ON at all times. Setup: Sound: Speaker Groups: PRESETNAME: Speaker Roles Selecting this menu item moves you to the menu where you assign Speaker Roles (or output channel assignments) to the current Speaker Group. Setup: Sound: Speaker Groups: PRESETNAME: Speaker Distance Selecting this menu moves you to the menu where you assign Speaker the current Speaker Group. Setup: Sound: Speaker Groups: PRESETNAME: Speaker Level Group at the listening position. 15

16 Setup: Sound: Speaker Groups: PRESETNAME: Advanced Settings Speaker Group. Setup: Sound: Speaker Groups: PRESETNAME: Speaker Roles loudspeakers that are used in the current Speaker Group. In addition, you can set the desired channel allocation output channel). surround system, note that the rear Note that there are no restrictions on loudspeakers connected to the television, it is allowed (although Surrounds and nothing else. traditional speaker roles: these are the signal to a second room. These two Right output. Note that this downmixing algorithm is the same one that is used loudspeakers and allow the TrueImage processing to do the automatic downmixing. The positions corresponding to the various Speaker Roles are shown in Setup: Sound: Speaker Groups: PRESETNAME: Speaker Distances This setting is used to ensure that the signals at the listening position are position. The value displayed on the listening position to each loudspeaker. loudspeakers signals are individually loudspeaker. Note that, since the Listening Position Groups, these distances may not Group to Speaker Group. In addition, connected either wirelessly or with system. 16

17 Setup: Sound: Speaker Groups: PRESETNAME: Speaker Levels The Speaker Level setting is used to align the loudspeakers at the listening position. speaker level at the listening position. some adjustments to optimise your system. In order to achieve the optimal settings recommended that you use a sound considering purchasing a sound pressure 1. Ensure that the correct Speaker Types loudspeaker in your system. 2. Set the sound pressure level meter to a C weighting and Slow setting. It position with the microphone pointed towards the ceiling. 4. Set the volume (not the Speaker Level) so that the reading on the sound the menu and set its Speaker Level so should also give the same reading when the SPL meter is set to a C weighting. two loudspeakers using the same method as all other loudspeakers. The television automatically compensates channel. This compensation is not shown Power Link channel to which it is connected. listening position and placement in the listening room. Setup: Sound: Speaker Groups: PRESETNAME: Assisted Speaker Calibration external microphone to automate the the Speaker Group and measuring their responses at the listening position. instructions. Note that only the Speaker Distances The resulting values are entered into the 17

18 Setup: Sound: Speaker Groups: PRESETNAME: Advanced Settings: Bass Management Select this menu to move to the next Bass Management Bass Redirection Speaker Enable Filtering LFE 1 LFE 2 LFE 1 LFE 2 Enable Filtering + Speaker Panning Balance Level loudspeakers are identical, and they are Speaker Enable Filtering Enable Filtering + Speaker play some tricks to avoid having to Panning Balance Level listen to music or watch movies. localise sound sources. With your eyes LFE closed rooms. Balance Level Subwoofer Balance Level Subwoofer television. In a sound system, we can use this matter where the loudspeaker that s producing them is positioned in your loudspeakers and send them to a single large loudspeaker that can produce the and the total result routed to the does not make sense to send low allow you to route the LFE input and the loudspeaker(s) connected to the television. As discussed elsewhere in this Guide, the section that makes intelligent decisions various loudspeakers. When the loudspeakers in the current Speaker loudspeakers in your system with the entering new values in the Advanced 18

19 Setup: Sound: Speaker Groups: PRESETNAME: Advanced Settings: LFE input to Ceiling without accompanying video are almost since most music does not contain low LFE channel on their multichannel releases). means that the LFE input channel should the LFE Input to Ceiling parameter to ON. This will direct the audio signal on the LFE input to a loudspeaker with a Ceiling Speaker Role. Setup: Sound: Speaker Groups: PRESETNAME: Advanced Settings: Subwoofer Selecting this menu moves you to the output. Setup: Sound: Speaker Groups: PRESETNAME: Advanced Settings: Bass Management: Crossover Frequency Management system is a 4 th ensure that coherent signals on multiple output channels have matched phase processing. Magnitude (db) Bass Management Magnitude Responses ,000 10,000 Frequency (Hz) crossover used in the Bass Management system, showing an example with default 19

20 Setup: Sound: Speaker Groups: PRESETNAME: Advanced Settings: Bass Management: Enable Filtering menu where you determine whether the given loudspeaker, this means that its directed to another loudspeaker in the Speaker Group. Setup: Sound: Speaker Groups: PRESETNAME: Advanced Settings: Bass Management: Panning Setup: Sound: Speaker Groups: PRESETNAME: Advanced Settings: Bass Management: Re-Direction Levels individual output channels. Setup: Sound: Speaker Groups: PRESETNAME: Advanced Settings: Subwoofer: Time Alignment The Time Alignment setting allows you channels. When this value is positive, to the main loudspeaker channels. When the value is negative, then the value. necessary to delay all main loudspeakers loudspeakers, connected either internally in the system. Step size: 1 ms. 20

21 Setup: Sound: Speaker Groups: PRESETNAME: Advanced Settings: Subwoofer: Allpass Frequency cases where either the placement or the Phase (Degrees) Subwoofer Allpass Phase Responses ,000 10,000 Frequency (Hz) three values for the Allpass Frequency Setup: Sound: Speaker Groups: PRESETNAME: Advanced Settings: Bass Management: Enable Filtering: SPEAKERROLE allows you to determine whether or not channels. the current Sound Mode. menu. Setup: Sound: Speaker Groups: PRESETNAME: Advanced Settings: Bass Management: Panning: SPEAKERROLE The Panning setting allows you to that output channel is irrelevant. Setting this parameter to the centre will Negative values result in the signal channel. Positive values pan to the right. the current Speaker Group. 21

22 Setup: Sound: Speaker Groups: PRESETNAME: Advanced Settings: Bass Management: Re-Direction Levels: SPEAKERROLE loudspeaker to reproduce the LFE Redirection Levels. Note that initial settings in this menu current Speaker Group. Setup: Sound: Speaker Groups: PRESETNAME: Advanced Settings: Bass Management: Re-Direction Balance: SPEAKERROLE management system in the television maintained as a stereo signal in the listening room. the current Speaker Group. Setup: Sound: Speaker Connections: SPEAKERTYPE This menu is used to indicate the type or in this menu, including some Two additional options are included in this list. loudspeaker that is not included in second listening room). Note that the when in a Line speaker role, is not consumer line level with a 2 V rms maximum output, and thus is WARNING! loudspeaker connected to a Power Link that output to Line, the resulting outputs! Use this Speaker Role with caution. Note that the television automatically entered in this menu. 22

23 Sound Sound Adjustment Sound Modes Speaker Groups Speaker Connections Sound Info Reset to Default Sound Adjustment Volume Bass Treble Max Volume (Headphones) Eco Mode Sound Modes Adaptive Movie Game Speech Drama Sports Music Custom Night Listening Movie Frequency Tilt Sound Enhance Speech Enhance Loudness Bass Management Balance L/R Fader B/F Dynamics Control Listening Style Advanced Settings Reset to Default Movie:Advanced LFE Input Loudness Spatial Control Dynamics Control Loudness Bass Max Boost Treble Max Boost Reset to Default Spatial Control Balance L/R Fader B/F Processing Surround Height Stage Width Envelopment Reset to Default Dynamics Control Compression Clip Protection Reset to Default Speaker Groups Setup TV Name Name... TV Speaker Roles Speaker Distance Speaker Level (Assisted Speaker Calibration) Setup Wizard Speaker Roles SpeakerType SpeakerType... Bass Management Crossover Frequency Enable Filtering Panning Re-Direction Levels Re-Direction Balance Enable Filtering SpeakerRole SpeakerRole... Advanced Settings Speaker Distance SpeakerRole SpeakerRole... Subwoofer Time Alignment Allpass Frequency Panning SpeakerRole SpeakerRole... Speaker Level SpeakerRole SpeakerRole... Re-Direction Levels SpeakerRole SpeakerRole... Advanced Settings Bass Management LFE Input to Ceiling Subwoofer Re-Direction Balance SpeakerRole SpeakerRole... Speaker Connections PL1 Left PL1 Right WPL 1 WPL

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