Pioneer VSX-824-K Owner's Manual

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 – Select LARGE if your front speakers reproduce bass 

frequencies effectively, or if you didn’t connect a 

subwoofer. Select SMALL to send the bass frequencies to 

the subwoofer.

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 – Select LARGE if your center speaker reproduces 

bass frequencies effectively, or select SMALL to send bass 

frequencies to the other speakers or subwoofer. If you 

didn’t connect a center speaker, choose NO (the center 

channel is sent to the other speakers).

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 (VSX-1029 only) – Select LARGE if your front 

height speakers reproduce bass frequencies effectively. 

Select SMALL to send bass frequencies to the other 

speakers or subwoofer. If you didn’t connect front height 

speakers choose NO.

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You can only adjust the Front Height setting when Pre 
Out Setting

 is set to Height.

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 – Select LARGE if your surround speakers reproduce 

bass frequencies effectively. Select SMALL to send bass 

frequencies to the other speakers or subwoofer. If you 

didn’t connect surround speakers choose NO (the sound of 

the surround channels is sent to the other speakers).

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 (VSX-1029 only) – Select the number of surround 

back speakers you have (one, two or none). Select LARGE if 

your surround back speakers reproduce bass frequencies 

effectively. Select SMALL to send bass frequencies to the 

other speakers or subwoofer. If you didn’t connect 

surround back speakers choose NO.

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VSX-1029 only: When using only one surround back 

speaker, connect it to the SURROUND BACK L (Single) 

terminals.

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 – LFE signals and bass frequencies of 

channels set to SMALL are output from the subwoofer 

when YES is selected (see notes below). Choose the PLUS 

setting if you want the subwoofer to output bass sound 

continuously or you want deeper bass (the bass 

frequencies that would normally come out the front and 

center speakers are also routed to the subwoofer). If you did 

not connect a subwoofer choose NO (the bass frequencies 

are output from other speakers).

You return to the Manual SP Setup menu.

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If you select SMALL for the front speakers, the subwoofer 

will automatically be fixed to YES. Also, the center, 

surround, surround back and front height speakers (VSX-

1029 only) can’t be set to LARGE if the front speakers are 

set to SMALL. In this case, all bass frequencies are sent to 

the subwoofer.

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If the surround speakers are set to NO, the surround back 

speakers will automatically be set to NO (VSX-1029 only).

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If you have a subwoofer and like lots of bass, it may seem 

logical to select LARGE for your front speakers and PLUS 

for the subwoofer. This may not, however, yield the best 

bass results. Depending on the speaker placement of your 

room you may actually experience a decrease in the 

amount of bass due to low frequency cancellations. In this 

case, try changing the position or direction of speakers. If 

you can’t get good results, listen to the bass response with 

it set to PLUS and YES or the front speakers set to LARGE 

and SMALL alternatively and let your ears judge which 

sounds best. If you’re having problems, the easiest option 

is to route all the bass sounds to the subwoofer by selecting 
SMALL

 for the front speakers.

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Default setting: 100Hz

This setting decides the cutoff between bass sounds playing 

back from the speakers selected as LARGE, or the subwoofer, 

and bass sounds playing back from those selected as SMALL. 

It also decides where the cutoff will be for bass sounds in the 

LFE channel.

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For more on selecting the speaker sizes, see 

Speaker Setting 

on page 53

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Choose the frequency cutoff point.
Frequencies below the cutoff point will be sent to the 

subwoofer (or LARGE speakers).

You return to the Manual SP Setup menu.

Using the channel level settings, you can adjust the overall 

balance of your speaker system, an important factor when 

setting up a home theater system. 

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The test tones used in the Channel Level settings are output 

at high volume.

 

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 – Move the test tone manually from speaker to 

speaker and adjust individual channel levels.

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 – Adjust channel levels as the test tone moves 

from speaker to speaker automatically.