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[. . . ] The exclamation point within an equilateral triangle is intended to alert the user to the presence of important operating and maintenance (servicing) instructions in the literature accompanying the appliance. Caution: in Canada and the usa, to prevent electric shock, match the wide blade of the plug to the wide slot in the socket and insert the plug fully into the socket. Important safety instructions 1. The case should normally only require a wipe with a soft, lint-free cloth. We do not advise the use of furniture cleaning sprays or polishes as they can cause permanent white marks. [. . . ] It is not necessary to point the microphone directly at the speaker generating the test tone. (It helps if you are able to position the microphone exactly where your head would normally be for listening, with the microphone in direct unobstructed view of all speakers. ) < If your system includes an active subwoofer, start by setting its output level / gain control to a value halfway between maximum and minimum. When activated, a calibration tone is played through each channel of the AVr400 in turn, including the subwoofer channel. The calibration tone cycles round each of the speakers multiple times as the different parameters are calculated. If you do not have a full 7. 1 The Auto Speaker Setup function is found within the Setup menus, see page E-36. You should enable room EQ on inputs you think benefit from this feature, as required, by listening when playing typical source material through each input. While room equalisation can help to reduce problems with listening room acoustics, it is usually far better to try to solve these problems with the room directly. Proper loudspeaker positioning, acoustic wall treatments and moving the listening position away from walls should produce far better results overall. However it may be difficult to do this in a home environment, so room EQ is your next best choice. Auto Speaker Setup will attempt to choose a crossover frequency that allows the smoothest low frequency transition from the main speakers to the subwoofer. However if this does not produce pleasing results we recommend manually trying other crossover frequencies to find something more to your preference. See the next sections for information of how to enter or change speaker settings manually. Problems We advise you to look over the reported measurements on the screen following Auto Speaker Setup for any obviously incorrect results, in particular to ensure the reported speakers match your configuration and that the speaker distances to the listening position appear look roughly correct. To enter the setup menu, press the MENU button (which is located immediately under the navigation buttons). Use the B and C keys to navigate up and down the main section headings in the left-hand panel. Once you have the main section that you require highlighted, use the E key to enter the section. Use the B and C keys to navigate up and down the section settings in the right-hand panel. Scroll bars on the sides of the right hand panel indicate your position in the settings list where there are more items than can be displayed at once. Pressing Ok selects a setting to change it, pressing Ok again de-selects the setting. using the keys on the front panel The AVr400 front panel controls can be used to configure the unit. Follow the instructions for using the remote control, in this case using iNPUT for down, iNPUT+ for up, iNFO for left and Ok for right. E-34 Input Config. The audio and video settings on this page of the Setup menu can be tailored specifically and independently to the currently selected input. When a different input is selected on the Input line, all the input-specific settings for that input are displayed below it. These settings are applied to the named Input only and are stored in memory and recalled each time the unit is powered up and whenever that input is selected. Input The currently selected input connectors to which the settings below relate. [. . . ] Switch the AVr400 off, wait ten seconds, then switch it on again to clear an operating problem. < there is no direct sunlight shining on the infra-red detector behind the front panel display. < < < < Unable to select Dolby Digital or DTS decoding modes format has been selected in the disc start menu of the BD player (if applicable). the BD/DVD player has been set to output `bitstream' audio on the digital output. the display window indicates that the disc you are playing is a multichannel recording (you may need to press the iNFO key several times until you get to the `incoming format' display). [. . . ]