Sony STR-SE501: Before turning on the receiver Checking the connections Before You Use Your Receiver Multi Channel Surround Setup

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Hooking Up and Setting Up the Speaker System

Function buttons

Before turning on the receiver

Make sure that you have:

• Selected the appropriate front speakers (see “

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SPEAKERS selector” on page 23). (STR-DE545 and

STR-SE501 only)

Checking the connections

After connecting all of your components to the receiver,

do the following to verify that the connections were made

correctly.

1

Press 

?

/

1

 to turn on the receiver.

2

Press a function button to select a component

(program source) that you connected (e.g., CD

player or tape deck).

3

Turn on the component and start playing it.

4

Rotate MASTER VOLUME to turn up the volume.

If you do not obtain normal sound output after

performing this procedure, look for the reason in the

checklist on the following page and take the appropriate

measures to correct the problem.

Before You Use Your

Receiver

Notes

• The front balance, rear balance, center level, and rear level are

shown in the display during adjustment.

• Although these adjustments can also be made via the front

panel using the LEVEL menu (when the test tone is output, the

receiver switches to the LEVEL menu automatically), we

recommend you follow the procedure described above and

adjust the speaker levels from your listening position using the

remote control.

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When setting the volume levels for each speaker

Let’s assume that you have matched the sound levels of all the

speakers using the test tone. Although this lays the foundation

for high quality surround sound, it may be necessary to make

further adjustments while listening to playback of actual

software. This is because most software contains center and rear

channels recorded at slightly lower levels than the two front

channels.

When you actually play back software recorded in multi channel

surround, you will notice that increasing the center and rear

speaker levels produces a better blend between the front and

center speakers and greater cohesion between the front and rear

speakers. Increasing the level of the center speaker about 1 dB,

and the rear speakers about 1~2 dB is likely to produce better

results.

In other words, in order to create a more cohesive soundstage

with balanced dialog, we recommend that you make some

adjustments while playing your software. Changes of only 1 dB

can make a huge difference in the character of the soundstage.

Multi Channel Surround Setup

MULTI CHANNEL DECODING

MASTER VOLUME

DISPLAY

INPUT MODE

VIDEO

MD/TAPE

CD

TUNER

AUX

DVD/LD

TV/SAT 5.1CH INPUT

CINEMA STUDIO

LEVEL

I

–

i

+

SET UP

BASS BOOST

TONE

FM/AM

MUTING

TONE

BASS

BOOST

SHIFT

MEMORY

FM MODE

RDS EON RDS PTY

PRESET/

–   PTY SELECT   +

–   TUNING   +

NAME

ENTER

SUR

BASS/

TREBLE

SOUND FIELD

A. F. D.

A

B

C

2CH

MODE

DIMMER

SPEAKERS

R

 ON 

r

 OFF

A

PHONES

B

? 

/ 

1

MASTER VOLUME

1/u