Listening to your system
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Chapter 7
Listening to your system
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 system.
Selecting Listening mode
Various listening modes are available for enjoyment
of diverse sound effects and for sound field
correction according to your preference.
In order to ascertain the best settings for your
listening conditions, use of the Auto MCACC
function is recommended.
Auto playback
The simplest, most direct listening option is the
Auto Surround feature. With this, the system
automatically detects what kind of source
you’re playing and selects multichannel or
stereo playback as necessary.
1
•
While listening to a source, press AUTO/
DIRECT
2
for auto playback of a source.
Press 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.
Listening in surround sound
Using this system, 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.
The following modes provide basic surround
sound for stereo and multichannel sources.
•
While listening to a source, press
STANDARD.
If the source is Dolby Digital, DTS, or Dolby
Surround encoded, the proper decoding
format will automatically be selected and
shows in the display.
With two channel sources
, you can select from:
•
DOLBY PLII MOVIE
– Up to 5.1 channel
sound, especially suited to movie sources
•
DOLBY PLII MUSIC
3
– Up to 5.1 channel
sound, especially suited to music sources
•
DOLBY PLII GAME
– Up to 5.1 channel
sound, especially suited for video games
•
NEO:6 CINEMA
– Up to 5.1 channel sound,
especially suited to movie sources
•
NEO:6 MUSIC
– Up to 5.1 channel sound,
especially suited to music sources
4
•
DOLBY PRO LOGIC
– 4.1 channel
surround sound
Note
1 Stereo surround (matrix) formats are decoded accordingly using
NEO:6 CINEMA
or
DOLBY PLII MOVIE
(see
above for more on these decoding formats).
2 For more options using this button, see
3 When listening to 2-channel sources in
DOLBY PLII MUSIC
mode, there are three further parameters you can adjust:
C.WIDTH
,
DIMEN.
, and
PNRM.
. See
on page 49 to adjust them.
4 When listening to 2-channel sources in
NEO:6 CINEMA
or
NEO:6 MUSIC
mode, you can also adjust the
C.IMG
effect
(see
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