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  • JoseC (Dolby Labs)

    Hello Mellocrunkpro, thank you for reaching out to us. We use various cell colors as indicators telling the user what available headroom you will get from a passive or active monitor. These colors also change depending if you are in the default mode of the HE DARDT or have selected either advanced mode or music mode. The colors you will see, depending on which mode you are in, will be red, orange, yellow, and green. The calibration level at the top will determine what color you get for the HS8 based on the available headroom.

    So for example, in the default mode you will get the following cell colors using the Yamaha HS8.
    At 70 dBC SPL the cells will show up green, at 75 you get a mix of orange, yellow and green, and at 85 you get all orange. We recommend staying in either yellow or green. These are the only two cell colors that are meeting the minimum headroom specs for ATMOS. Orange and red colors will tell you that your system performance will be insufficient.
    I am also attaching screen shots to show you the various color results of the HS8 as reference.
    Thanks for your time. Feel free to reach out if you need anything else.

    Jose.
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