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Listening to your system

Chapter 4:

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 or DOLBY PLIIx

MOVIE (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. If surround back channel processing (page 23) is switched off,

or the surround back speakers are set to NO, DOLBY PLIIx

becomes DOLBY PLII (5.1 channel sound).

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

(see Setting the Audio options on page 23).

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

options on page 23).

d. This mode can only be selected when surround back channel

processing (page 23) is switched off.

e. • 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.

Note

• In modes that give 6.1 channel sound, the same signal is

heard from both surround back speakers.

ADV SURR

AUTO/

DIRECT

AUDIO

PARAMETER

TUNER EDIT

TOOLS

MASTER

VOLUME

BD MENU

ALC/

STANDARD

STEREO

SOUND

RETRIEVER

STEREO

ADVANCED

SURROUND

DISPLAY BAND TUNER EDIT TUNE

ALC/

STANDARD SURR

AUTO SURROUND

STREAM DIRECT

AUTO/

DIRECT

AUTO SURROUND

STREAM DIRECT

Type of surround

modes

Suitable sources

Surround

back

speaker(s)

Two channel sources

STEREO ALC See above. –

DOLBY PLIIx MOVIE Movie

Yes

DOLBY PLII MOVIE No

DOLBY PLIIx MUSIC

Music

Yes

DOLBY PLII MUSIC

DOLBY PLIIx GAME Video games

Yes

DOLBY PLII GAME No

ALC/

STANDARD

ALC/

STANDARD SURR

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. –

DOLBY PLIIx MOVIE Movie

Two

DOLBY PLII MOVIE No

DOLBY PLIIx MUSIC

Music

Two

DOLBY PLII MUSIC

DOLBY DIGITAL EX Movie/Music Yes

DTS-ES Movie/Music Yes

DTS NEO:6 Movie/Music Yes

Straight Decode

No additional effects –

STEREO

See above. –

Type of surround

modes

Suitable sources

Surround

back

speaker(s)

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