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Listening Mode
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Troubleshooting | Supplementary Information, etc.
This unit is equipped with a variety of
listening modes, and you can select the
optimum listening mode for movies, TV,
music, and games using Movie/TV, Music,
and Game (b). The basic operations are
introduced in the Basic Manual. For more
details, see the Advanced Manual.
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The listening mode last selected for the
source is remembered for each of the
Movie/TV, Music, and Game buttons. If
content you play is not supported by the
listening mode you selected last, the
listening mode that is standard for that
content is selected automatically.
Dolby Digital/DTS Modes
When the input signal is a digital surround
format such as Dolby Digital or DTS, you
can select the listening mode that suits the
input signal. Dolby Digital is displayed for
Dolby Digital and DTS-HD Master Audio is
displayed for DTS-HD Master Audio. The
output is Stereo for 2-channel input signals.
Direct
This listening mode can be selected for all
input signals. It shuts down processing that
affects sound quality to deliver a playback
sound quality closer to sources. Speakers
play the sound field according to the
number of channels in the input signal, so
there would be output from only the front
speakers for a 2 ch signal, for example.
Note that the sound quality cannot be
adjusted if this mode is selected.
Dolby Surround/DTS Neural:X
These listening modes allow you to expand
the playback signal to a maximum of
11 channels to suit the connected speaker
configuration when the input signal is
2 channel or 5.1 channel.
THX Surround Modes
Multiple surround speakers are installed in
movie theaters so that the moviegoer is
enveloped in a natural surround sound.
Even with just two surround speakers, the
THX Cinema mode achieves, with the high-
quality technology developed by THX, the
same kind of breadth of sound you would
get in a movie theater along with the
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natural flow of timbre with the sound field
towards the front. Also available are modes
such as THX Music and THX Games. Note
that the sound quality cannot be adjusted if
this mode is selected.
Original Surround Modes
You can select listening modes such as the
All Ch Stereo mode where a stereo image
is played from both the front and the rear,
and Orchestra (only with the Music button)
which is best for playback of classical and
opera pieces.
Checking the Input Format and
Listening Mode
Press
(a) on the remote controller
several times to switch the display of the
main unit as follows.
Input source & volume
Listening mode
Signal format
Sampling frequency
Input signal resolution
The display changes few
seconds later.
