Yamaha YPAO: The Lost Manual

Calibrate Yamaha YPAO and get remarkable results!

Transform Your Home Cinema into a THX-calibrated Theatre.

In this comprehensive manual, owner and editor of Simple Home Cinema shares his tips and tricks to getting exceptional Yamaha YPAO results including:

1. Improved sound quality and speech intelligibility
2. Maximised subwoofer performance with smoother and tighter bass!
3. The walls literally disappear and the sound comes from beyond the walls!
4. Gorgeous natural reverberations like in a purpose-built multiplex!

This guide reveals the secrets to getting amazing results with Yamaha YPAO including:
• How to set up your speakers and your room for optimum results
• The mic patterns that will work best in your room
o 1 tight and 1 medium pattern – these patterns will allow you to prioritise imaging even in larger spaces.
o 1 wide pattern – this is a fail safe pattern – and what is included on the blog!
o Notes on designing your own mic pattern
o Advice for multiple rows of seating
• Configuration changes within your receiver that will allow you to maximise YPAO
• How to choose the ideal subwoofer location in your room to maximise sub performance
o 2 procedures and 2 scoring sheets to help with your subwoofer placement – just use your ears
o Multi-Sub optimisation by integrating with Multi Sub Optimiser (MSO)
• Troubleshooting YPAO – how to troubleshoot issues with YPAO including disjointed surround sound fields and subwoofer issues – step by step
• New Chapter: Loudness Compensation and YPAO Volume (new in v3.0)
o Including implementing house curves based on loudness compensation principles (new in v3.0)
o New Curve Editor Excel Tool (new in v3.0)
o New Loudness Memories Excel Tool (new in v3.0)
• New section on Extra bass including measurements (new in v3.0)
• New Chapter: Editing Manual PEQs (new in v3.0)
• How to integrate YPAO with Dirac Live
• The DOs and DON’Ts of running YPAO
• What to do after running YPAO and configure crossovers, equalisation, surround levels and other settings to get ideal sound
• 70+ pages of dense but easy to understand material based on 100s of hours of researchand testing
• Lots of easy to understand explanations to guide you through each step of the process.
• Lots of new diagrams explaining the concepts in a visual manner (new in v3.0)