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nal going into the ADC). You should also probably save this new setting as the

default setting for that input, which will save you from running into this problem

again—unless you later play something that is even louder. (In which case, you

simply repeat the process outlined below.)

1 TURN THE MASTER VOLUME CONTROL ON THE AVP2 DOWN

When the analog to digital converter clips, it distorts the waveform much as

a power amplifier does when it clips. This is both unpleasant to hear and

potentially dangerous to speakers at high volumes. Turn the volume down

to a quiet, but still audible level just to be on the safe side, but so you can

still hear what you are doing.

2 PLAY THE LOUDEST SELECTION YOU CAN FIND ON THE ANALOG

SOURCE IN QUESTION

Mind you, you are not playing this “loud section” loudly: keep it quiet, but

play the biggest musical crescendo or movie explosion available on the

source at hand.

3 PRESS INPUT LEVEL ON THE FRONT PANEL OF THE AVP2 AND RAISE/

LOWER THE INPUT LEVEL WITH THE VOLUME KNOB UNTIL THE DISPLAY

JUST READS “ADC CLIPPING”; THEN LOWER THE INPUT LEVEL BY 1-2 DB.

The goal here is to give yourself just a little “headroom” in case the next

recording you play is a bit louder than the one you are using for this ad-

justment. Note that some source components may have lower-than-normal

output voltages, in which case you will end up “turning up” the input level

setting to compensate.

4 CONTINUE TO MONITOR THE RECORDING THROUGH ONE OR TWO

MORE LOUD PASSAGES TO ENSURE THAT THE ADC DOES NOT CLIP;

SAVE THE NEW DEFAULT VALUE BY PRESSING AND HOLDING THE INPUT

LEVEL BUTTON

When you press and hold the

input level button on the AVP2, the current

value for the input level adjustment is automatically entered as the default

input level setting for the currently selected analog source. (You can check

this for yourself by going into the define button menu for that input, and

checking the analog connection.) Whenever you select this input in the fu-

ture, this setting will be loaded for you to protect against harsh-sounding

ADC overload.

set more buttons When you are all done defining how you want to us the nine input buttons on

the AVP2, you may discover that you have some input connectors on the rear that

are as yet unused. Since different people require different complements of con-

nectors; we provide some redundant ones to ensure that everyone was likely to

have what they needed. As a result, the AVP2 has nine input buttons, but fifteen

audio inputs (eight analog pairs plus seven digital inputs of various types).

If you have additional sources beyond the nine most commonly used ones that

you would also like to have as part of your AVP2-based system, you can access

“virtual input buttons” via the more button (and by cycling through the defined

inputs on the remote control).