Decoding

Listening Modes

Inputs

• 8 HDMI inputs (7 rear and 1 front-panel input)
• Digital Audio Inputs: 2 Coaxial + 3 Optical
• 5 Stereo Analog RCA InputsHDMI On-Screen Display – set-up, video adjustments, status, song/artist info from radio stations
• MHL Supported Inputs
• xvYCC, Adobe RGB, Adobe YCC601, sYCC601, Deep Color
• 2 Parallel Outputs
• Consumer Electronic Control (CEC)
• Audio Return Channel
• Standby Pass-through

Custom Installation

• IR Control
• RS-232 Control
• IR Input (Configurable)
• 12V Trigger Output
• Control System Drivers

Additional Features

• Backlit Remote Control
• Sidemount Rack Kit (sold separately)

Warranty

• 3 Years (UK)

True-Balanced XLR Pre-Out

Electrical noise in audio is often generated due to the connection with other AV components and due to the connection between the pre amplifier-processor and amplifier, as well as from other sources of external noise. To ensure the AVM60 is not affected by this distortion, it uses True-Balanced XLR Pre-Out connections to achieve a balanced transmission that is highly noise resistant.

AVM60 – Rear View

The Easy-To-Use Anthem Room Correction Kit Delivers Professional Results In Any Room

What is ARC?

Simply put, Anthem Room Correction (ARC) quickly ‘corrects’ the effects that reflective surfaces, such as walls, floors and ceilings have on the sound radiating from a loudspeaker. Removing the effects of these obstacles allows your audio equipment to achieve a more natural sound in any room, as close to the lab standard as possible.

On a more complex level, ARC is a proprietary digital signal processing software that works with a specially-engineered calibration microphone and your PC to quickly and easily optimise audio for your unique listening space. Anthem engineers developed the ARC system while researching how to replicate the audio-lab standard of performance in non-lab environments. This groundbreaking research was conducted in conjunction with the National Research Council of Canada, the Canadian government’s research and technology organisation.

Anthem engineers realised that real world listening experiences had little in common with the controlled environment of the audio lab. That’s because even the best loudspeakers are affected by room anomalies like furniture. These obstacles cause standing waves, resonances, and reflections that can color the sound you hear. Imagine the sound waves coming from your speakers as ripples on a water surface. That makes it easy for you to understand how the ripples of sound bounce off any obstruction they encounter. You can immediately see the benefit of removing the obstacles.

ARC digitally compares a room’s acoustic signature to that of the lab standard. It measures the response of each speaker relative to the listening area. Then it uses advanced algorithms to eliminate the negative effects of the obstacles in the room, adjusting response and correcting phase effects. When ARC removes the obstacles, what’s left is the lab standard performance.

How does ARC work?

The ARC Kit is easy to use and just a few simple steps can customise your loudspeakers for your unique listening space.

Each ARC-ready component comes with a complete ARC Kit, consisting of software and microphone calibration file from www.anthemav.com, a professional quality mic stand and high quality connectors. You will need a Windows-based laptop computer with a CD drive.

Plug the kit’s custom Calibration Microphone into your computer and into your ARC-ready Anthem AV Receiver. Place the microphone at each of the listening positions in your room (a minimum of five, maximum of ten) and allow ARC to take a sound sample from each location.

The proprietary ARC software measures the difference between the speaker’s ideal lab-standard response and their real-world performance in your room. Then, its sophisticated DSP accurately equalises response and creates intricate crossover curves so that the performance of the speakers in your room meets the ideal lab standard!

Now you’re hearing exactly what their audio engineers intended you to hear: Pure, natural, transparent sound, no matter what challenges your room presents!