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Surround Modes
Section
6-1
Surround Modes
The Maestro theater processor contains two powerful
digital signal processing (DSP) ICs. These components
enable the Maestro to decode multiple digital and analog
multi-channel surround sound formats. Since the Maestro
is fully programmable, new surround decoding formats
can be incorporated as they become popular.
Selecting Surround Modes
There are three groups of surround processing modes in
the Maestro. These are selected using the THX, E
THX, E
THX, E
THX, E
THX, E
FFECT
FFECT
FFECT
FFECT
FFECT
and
M
M
M
M
M
ODE
ODE
ODE
ODE
ODE
buttons on the front panel or their equivalent com-
mands in the external control protocols. The THX
THX
THX
THX
THX button
provides supplemental processing to improve the overall
surround effect. The E
E
E
E
E
FFECT
FFECT
FFECT
FFECT
FFECT
button selects special DSP
processing effects for two channel sources only. The M
M
M
M
M
ODE
ODE
ODE
ODE
ODE
button manually selects the surround decoding mode
when the source media does not automatically configure
the Maestro.
Modes for Digital Sources
Digital surround recordings have details of their decoding
requirements encoded into the media. The Maestro auto-
matically detects this information and switches to the
appropriate surround mode.
Modes for Analog Sources
Two channel analog audio sources do not contain informa-
tion about their surround encoding method. This means
that you will have to choose the surround mode that you
find sounds best.
Mode Memory
The Maestro automatically remembers the last surround
mode used for each source input. Since most digital sur-
round recordings have control information encoded into
them; the Maestro will switch to the decoding method
requested by the source material.
THX
®
Modes
THX processing offers additional performance benefits in
addition to the standard surround decoding modes. THX is
an exclusive set of technologies and standards established
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