Technical Sound Guide
Note that your television may not be Setup: Sound: Sound Adjustment equipped with all features and functions mentioned in this guide. Selecting this menu will move you to the Sound Adjustment menu where you can configure a number of basic systemwide parameters.
Setup: Sound: Sound Adjustment: Volume This menu displays the current volume setting on a scale of 0 to 90 in 1 dB steps. Setup: Sound: Sound Adjustment: Bass Bass Control − Magnitude Responses This means that the setting of the Bass change the relative amount of low- control is applied to all Sound Modes frequency sound globally using a low and Speaker Groups, and is independent shelving filter with a turnover frequency of the settings of the Frequency Tilt and of 120 Hz. Sound Enhance controls.
Setup: Sound: Sound Adjustment: Headphones Different brands and models of For example, if you have headphones Note that not all Bang & Olufsen headphones produce different output with a high sensitivity, then they will televisions are equipped with a levels for the same input depending on sound louder than your loudspeakers at headphone output. In the case where their ‘sensitivity’. The Headphones menu the same volume setting.
Setup: Sound: Sound Modes: Speech The Speech Sound Mode is designed for The Speech Enhance setting is increased, signals where an increased speech bass management and loudness are off, intelligibility is desirable, for example, and spatial controls are set to present a television news programmes. more narrow sound image.
Setup: Sound: Sound Modes: PRESETNAME: Frequency Tilt Frequency Tilt can be considered to be a The Frequency Tilt function will have no 8 combination of Bass and Treble settings effect on the audio signal at its middle 6 in a single parameter. When Frequency setting. 4 Tilt is set to a low value, the low Note that Frequency Tilt can have increased and the level of the high different settings for different Sound frequency content is reduced. If the Modes.
Setup: Sound: Sound Modes: PRESETNAME: Loudness Sadly, human hearing is imperfect. One The Loudness setting in your television of the issues that we all suffer from is counteracts this effect. As you reduce it is on or off) is stored with the Sound that our perception of the timbre or the volume, the bass and treble levels Mode, so different modes can have ‘tone colour’ of a sound is not constant are automatically increased to different settings. with listening level.
Setup: Sound: Sound Modes: PRESETNAME: Balance L/R The Balance Left / Right setting can be used to re-direct input signals to different output channels in your loudspeaker configuration. For example, setting the Balance L/R all the way to the left on the display will result in signals being directed only to the loudspeakers in your configuration that have a Speaker Role on the left (i.e. Left Front, Left Surround, Left Front Height, etc.
Setup: Sound: Sound Modes: PRESETNAME: Listening Style The television has the option of Traditionally, audio systems and most instruments and voices in the sound modifying the audio signal depending recordings are designed for ‘active’ stage). on your listening style.
Setup: Sound: Sound Modes: PRESETNAME: Advanced Settings: Loudness Selecting this menu will result in moving to the Advanced Settings menu for the Loudness function. Setup: Sound: Sound Modes: PRESETNAME: Advanced Settings: Spatial Controls Selecting this menu will result in moving to the Advanced Settings menu for the television’s Spatial Controls.
Setup: Sound: Sound Modes: PRESETNAME: Advanced Settings: Loudness: Treble Max Boost This setting is essentially identical to the Range: 0 dB to 12 dB. Bass Max Boost setting (see page 10), Step size: 1 dB. however, it controls the amount of boost applied to the treble instead of the bass at low volume settings.
Setup: Sound: Sound Modes: PRESETNAME: Advanced Settings: Spatial Controls: Processing There are many cases where the number Figure 7: Loudspeaker positions associated 0º Centre Front of input channels in the audio signal 30º with the speaker roles available in the Right Front does not match the number of Centre Front Height loudspeakers in your configuration. For television.
exceptions where upmixing may be when you have a 6.1 input and a 7.1 applied to the signal. The first of these loudspeaker configuration. In this case, is when you have a 2.0-channel the Centre Back signal will be loudspeaker configuration and a distributed to the Left Back and Right 1-channel monophonic input. In this Back loudspeakers. case, the centre front signal will be distributed to the Left Front and Right Options: 1:1 / Downmix / TrueImage. Front loudspeakers.
Setup: Sound: Sound Modes: PRESETNAME: Advanced Settings: Spatial Controls: Envelopment The Envelopment setting allows you to Note that this setting has no effect on set the desired amount of perceived the front loudspeaker channels. Changes width or spaciousness from your in the Envelopment setting will have no surround and back loudspeakers. At its effect on the signal when the Processing minimum setting, the surround is set to 1:1 or Downmix.
Setup: Sound: Sound Modes: PRESETNAME: Advanced Settings: Dynamics Control: Clip Protection Each of the television’s audio signal This soft clip function has a threshold of Note that, if Clip Protection is set to OFF, paths has a customised soft clip function –3 dB FS. Signals with a peak level lower then there may be cases, depending on protecting its outputs to ensure that the than this will be unaffected.
Setup: Sound: Speaker Groups: PRESETNAME: Advanced Settings Selecting this menu brings you to the Advanced Settings menu for the current Speaker Group. Setup: Sound: Speaker Groups: PRESETNAME: Speaker Roles This menu allows you to enable the Two of the Speaker Roles are not If you have only two loudspeakers in loudspeakers that are used in the traditional speaker roles: these are the your main configuration, it is current Speaker Group. In addition, you Mix Left and Mix Right options.
Setup: Sound: Speaker Groups: PRESETNAME: Speaker Levels The Speaker Level setting is used to align The calibration procedure is as follows: If you have more than one loudspeaker the perceived or measured loudness of 1. Ensure that the correct Speaker Types assigned to a single output channel (for the loudspeakers at the listening have already been entered for each example, if you have two Left Surround position. loudspeaker in your system. 2.
Setup: Sound: Speaker Groups: PRESETNAME: Advanced Settings: Bass Management L FE 2 Bass Redirection L FE 1 LF E 1 menu where parameters for the Bass L FE 2 Bass Management Select this menu to move to the next Management and Bass Redirection systems can be adjusted Speaker Enable Filtering Enable Filtering Panning Balance + Speaker + Speaker Level In a perfect sound system, all loudspeakers are identical, and they are all full-range. However, most often, this is not an option.
Setup: Sound: Speaker Groups: PRESETNAME: Advanced Settings: LFE input to Ceiling Five-channel recordings for music As a result of these two facts, some without accompanying video are almost record labels use the LFE channel on Range: ON / OFF. * Consult the liner notes for your disc(s) for always produced in 5.0. In other words, their discs for height information there is no need for an LFE channel, instead of low frequency effects.
Setup: Sound: Speaker Groups: PRESETNAME: Advanced Settings: Bass Management: Enable Filtering Selecting this menu brings you to the When this parameter is set to ON for a menu where you determine whether the given loudspeaker, this means that its Bass Management filtering is on or off low frequency content will be re- for individual output channels. directed to another loudspeaker in the Speaker Group.
Setup: Sound: Speaker Groups: PRESETNAME: Advanced Settings: Subwoofer: Allpass Frequency Subwoofer Allpass − Phase Responses There is a first-order allpass filter in the Range: Bypass, 20 Hz – 300 Hz. signal path of the subwoofer output. Step Size: 1 Hz.
Setup: Sound: Speaker Groups: PRESETNAME: Advanced Settings: Bass Management: Re-Direction Levels: SPEAKERROLE It is possible in the television to use any a single subwoofer. However, if you loudspeaker to reproduce the LFE desire, it is possible to send that Note that initial settings in this menu are automatically chosen based on channel and low-frequency content information to any loudspeakers in the information from the Speaker Types from the bass management system.
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:Advanced! LFE Input Loudness Spatial Control Dynamics Control Movie! Frequency Tilt Sound Enhance Speech Enhance Loudness Bass Management Balance L/R Fader B/F Dynamics Control Listening Style Loudness Bass Max Boost Treble Max Boost Reset to Default
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