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Listening to your system

SCI-FI

– Designed for science fiction with lots

of special effects

MONO FILM

– Creates surround sound from

mono soundtracks

ENT.SHOW

– Suitable for musical sources

EXPANDED

– Creates an extra wide stereo

field

TV SURROUND

– Provides surround sound

for both mono and stereo TV sources

ADVANCED GAME

– Suitable for video

games

SPORTS

– Suitable for sports programs

CLASSICAL

– Gives a large concert hall-type

sound

ROCK/POP

– Creates a live concert sound for

rock and/or pop music

UNPLUGGED

– Suitable for acoustic music

sources

EXT.STEREO

– Gives multichannel sound to a

stereo source, using all of your speakers

F.S.SURR FOCUS

– Use to provide a rich

surround sound effect directed to the center of
where the front left and right speakers sound
projection area converges.

F.S.SURR WIDE

– Use to provide a surround

sound effect to a wider area than

FOCUS

mode.

FOCUS

position

(Recommended)

WIDE

position

Front left
speaker

Front right
speaker

Front left
speaker

Front right
speaker

SOUND RETRIEVER AIR

– Suitable for

listening to the sound from a

Bluetooth

wireless technology device. The

SOUND RETRIEVER AIR

listening mode can

only selected when the

ADAPTER PORT

input

or listening through headphones.

PHONES SURR

– When listening through

headphones, you can still get the effect of
overall surround.

Note

When an Advanced Surround listening mode

is selected, the effect level can be adjusted
using the

EFFECT

parameter in

Setting the

Audio options

on page 47 .

However, with

F.S.SURR FOCUS

F.S.SURR WIDE

and

SOUND RETRIEVER AIR

the effect level cannot be adjusted.

The Front Stage Surround Advance

(

F.S.SURR FOCUS

and

F.S.SURR WIDE

)

function allows you to create natural surround
sound effects using just the front speakers
and the subwoofer.

Using Stream Direct

Use the Stream Direct modes when you want
to hear the truest possible reproduction of a
source. All unnecessary signal processing is
bypassed, and you’re left with the pure analog
or digital sound source.
Processing differs depending on the input sig-
nal and whether or not surround back speakers
are connected. For details, see

Auto Surround,

ALC and Stream Direct with different input signal
formats

on page 82 .

While listening to a source,

press AUTO/ALC/DIRECT
(AUTO SURR/ALC/STREAM DIRECT) to
select the mode you want.

Check the digital format indicators in the front
panel display to see how the source is being
processed.

AUTO SURROUND

– See

Auto playback

page 36 .

ALC

– Listening in Auto level control mode

(page 36).

DIRECT

– Plays back sound from the

source with the least modification next

PURE DIRECT

. With

DIRECT

, the only

modifications added to

PURE DIRECT

playback are calibration of the sound field by
the MCACC system and the Phase Control
effect.

PURE DIRECT

– Plays back unmodified

sound from source with only minimal digital
treatment. No sound is output from the
Speaker B in this mode.

Note

When listening through headphones, you can

select

ALC

PURE DIRECT

mode only.

Selecting MCACC presets

Default setting:

MEMORY 1

If you have calibrated your system for different
listening positions, you can switch between set-
tings to suit the kind of source you’re listening
to and where you’re sitting (for example, watch-
ing movies from a sofa, or playing a video game
close to the TV).

1 Press

to the receiver operation

mode.
2 While listening to a source, press
MCACC.

Press repeatedly to select one of the six MCACC
presets. See

Data Management

on page 64 to

check and manage your current settings.

These settings have no effect when

headphones are connected.

You can also press

to select the

MCACC preset.

Choosing the input signal

On this receiver, it is possible to switch
the input signals for the different inputs as
described below.

This receiver can only play back Dolby Digital,

PCM (32 kHz to 192 kHz) and DTS (including
DTS 96/24) digital signal formats. The
compatible signals via the HDMI terminals
are: Dolby Digital, DTS, PCM (32 kHz to 192
kHz), Dolby TrueHD, Dolby Digital Plus, DTS-
EXPRESS, DTS-HD Master Audio and SACD.

You may get digital noise when an LD, CD,

DVD or BD player compatible with DTS is
playing an analog signal. To prevent noise,
make the proper digital connections (page 15)
and set the signal input to

DIGITAL

Some DVD players don’t output DTS signals.

For more details, refer to the instruction
manual supplied with your DVD player.

1 Press

to the receiver operation

mode.
2 Press SIGNAL SEL to select the input
signal corresponding to the source
component.

Each press cycles through the options as
follows:

AUTO

– The receiver selects the first

available signal in the following order:

HDMI

;