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Chapter

Listening to your system

Choosing the listening mode

This receiver offers a variety of listening modes to

accommodate playback of various audio formats. Choose one

according to your speaker environment or the source.



While listening to a source, press the listening mode

button repeatedly to select a listening mode you want.

•

The listening mode is shown on the display on the front

panel.

Important

•

The listening modes and many features described in this

section may not be available depending on the current

source, settings and status of the receiver.

Auto playback

The simplest, most direct listening option is the AUTO

SURROUND feature. With this, the receiver automatically

detects what kind of source you’re playing and selects

multichannel or stereo playback as necessary.

•

Press

AUTO/DIRECT

repeatedly until AUTO SURROUND

shows briefly in the display (it will then show the decoding

or playback format). Check the digital format indicators in

the display to see how the source is being processed.

Note

•

Stereo surround (matrix) formats are decoded accordingly

using NEO:6 CINEMA (see Listening in surround sound

below for more on these decoding formats).

Listening in surround sound

Using this receiver, you can listen to any source in surround

sound. However, the options available will depend on your

speaker setup and the type of source you’re listening to.

•

If the source is Dolby Digital, DTS, or Dolby Surround

encoded, the proper decoding format will automatically be

selected and shows in the display.

When you select STEREO ALC (Auto Level Control stereo

mode), this unit equalizes playback sound levels if each sound

level varies with the music source recorded in a portable

audio player.

When you select STEREO, you will hear the source through

just the front left and right speakers (and possibly your

subwoofer depending on your speaker settings). Dolby Digital

and DTS multichannel sources are downmixed to stereo.

The following modes provide basic surround sound for stereo

and multichannel sources.

Explanatory notes

No: No connected / Yes: Connected / Two: Two speakers are

connected / –: Whether connected or no

a. You can also adjust the C.WIDTH, DIMEN., and PNRM. effect

(see Setting the Audio options on page 31).

b. You can also adjust the C.IMG effect (see Setting the Audio

options on page 31).

c. • You can choose the STEREO mode by using

STEREO

button.

• The audio is heard with your surround settings and you can

still use the Midnight, Loudness, Phase Control, Sound

Retriever and Tone functions.

AUTO/

DIRECT

AUTO SURROUND

STREAM DIRECT

ALC/

STANDARD

ALC/

STANDARD SURR

Type of surround modes Suitable sources

Two channel sources

STEREO ALC See above.

DOLBY PLII MOVIE Movie

DOLBY PLII MUSIC

Music

DOLBY PLII GAME Video games

NEO:6 CINEMA

Movie

NEO:6 MUSIC

Music

DOLBY PRO LOGIC Old movies

Straight Decode No additional effects

STEREO

See above.

Multichannel sources

STEREO ALC See above.

Straight Decode No additional effects

STEREO

See above.

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