Setting Speaker Pattern With Sony AVR

DavidSeon
DavidSeon Posts: 10
edited November 2011 in Electronics
I'm trying to set up my Series II 5.1 speakers with a Sony STR-DH820 AVR (yea, I know, but I demolished my budget with the speakers). To start with I just want to hookup the two Monitor 70 fronts but I'm confused by the format of the Speaker Pattern selections:

2/0, 2/0.1, 3/0, 3/0.1, 2/2, 2/2.1, 3/2, 3/2.1, 2/3, 2/3.1, 3/3, 3/3.1, 2/4, 2/4.1, 3/4, 3/4.1, etc.

I'm familiar with the plain old 2.0 for two fronts, 2.1 with subwoofer, 3.1 with center added and so on. But I would appreciate it if someone could tell me how to interpret these combinations. The AVR has a GUI menu and I think the diagrams on that display would make it clearer which to choose. But the GUI display requires an HDMI connection to the TV and Santa hasn't brought our flat screen yet, so I'm limited to the little one line built-in text display.

Thanks to anyone who can help with this.
Dave
polkaudio Series II
Monitor 70 x 2
CS2 w/Sanus NFC18C Stand
Monitor 40 x 2 w/Pinpoint AM-40B Mounts
PSW505
HTPC
Intel DH57DD/i5-661
Hauppauge HVR-2250 Dual Tuner
AVR
Sony STRDH820 7.2 Channel 3D
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  • F1nut
    F1nut Posts: 51,668
    edited November 2011
    Since you have a 5.1 set up, the 3/2.1 would be what you want. That's 3 in the front (L/C/R), 2 surrounds and 1 sub.
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  • DavidSeon
    DavidSeon Posts: 10
    edited November 2011
    Thanks for the reply F1. That makes sense I guess, just wasn't thinking that way.
    polkaudio Series II
    Monitor 70 x 2
    CS2 w/Sanus NFC18C Stand
    Monitor 40 x 2 w/Pinpoint AM-40B Mounts
    PSW505
    HTPC
    Intel DH57DD/i5-661
    Hauppauge HVR-2250 Dual Tuner
    AVR
    Sony STRDH820 7.2 Channel 3D