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Menu System Mark Levinson

The Audio Defaults Menu

The audio defaults menu allows you to direct the Nº40 to automati-

cally switch to a particular sound profile whenever it senses a

particular type of incoming audio signal.

Any sound profile selection based on the input definition described

in the previous section overrides this setting. That is, if there is a

conflict between what the input definition says to do, and what the

signal default says to do, the input definition get priority.

For example, you might decide that you prefer a sound profile

based on the stereo surround mode, some level trims, and a few

other details whenever you listen to Compact Discs. Since all CDs

have a 44.1 kHz PCM signal, you could associate your preferred

sound profile with that type of signal. This would work whether the

CD was played in a CD player or in a DVD player, since the nature

of the incoming signal would remain the same.

You might choose to have a different sound profile associated with

multichannel Dolby Digital signals, most of which are likely to be

movie-oriented. Again, the Nº40 would automatically switch to

your specified sound profile whenever it sees that type of incoming

signal, unless a higher-priority instruction was associated with the

input you had selected.

You can always manually override either a sound profile or a partic-

ular surround mode (or pretty much anything else) for exceptions

that prove the rule. The audio defaults capability is designed to help

you get to the “right” sound profile automatically, most of the time,

without you having to intervene.

When a profile is selected manually using either the front panel

sound profile button or the profile button on the remote control,

the Nº40 will remain in that profile until either a different profile or

a different input is selected. (Specifically, changes in the nature of

the incoming signal that might otherwise have triggered a change

in profile will be ignored, in favor of the explicit selection on the

part of the user.)

If you prefer to run the system manually all the time, you can leave

any or all of these signal default settings at “No change.”

The audio defaults menu is broken down into three areas, as

follows:

Multichannel

All the different types of discrete multichannel audio signals recog-

nized by the Nº40 are listed under the multichannel section of the

menu:

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