Pioneer VSX-1120-K, Operating Instructions Manual

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Listening to your system 06
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Selecting MCACC presets
• Default setting: MEMORY 1
If you have calib r ated you r system fo r diffe r ent listening
p ositions, you can switch between settings to suit the
kind of sou r ce you’ r e listening to and whe r e you’ r e sitting
(fo r exam p le, watching movies f r om a sofa, o r p laying a
video game close to the TV).
• While listening to a source, press , then
press MCACC.
P r ess r e p eatedly to select one of the six MCACC pr esets
1
.
See
Data Management
on p age 76 to check and manage
you r cu rr ent settings.
Choosing the input signal
On this r eceive r , it is p ossible to switch the in p ut signals
fo r the diffe r ent in p uts as desc r ibed below.
2
• Press , then press SIGNAL SEL to select
the input signal corresponding to the source
component.
Each pr ess cycles th r ough the o p tions as follows:
• AUTO – The r eceive r selects the fi r st available signal
in the following o r de r : HDMI ; DIGITAL ; ANALOG .
•
ANALOG
– Selects an analog signal.
• DIGITAL – Selects an o p tical o r coaxial digital signal.
• HDMI – Selects an HDMI signal.
3
• PCM – Fo r PCM in p ut signals.
4
The r eceive r selects
the fi r st available signal in the following o r de r : HDMI ;
DIGITAL .
When set to
DIGITAL
,
HDMI
o r
AUTO
(only selected
DIGITAL
o r
HDMI
), the indicato r s light acco r ding to the
signal being decoded (see
Display
on p age 13).
Better sound using Phase Control
This r eceive r ’s Phase Cont r ol featu r e uses p hase
co rr ection measu r es to make su r e you r sound sou r ce
a rr ives at the listening p osition in p hase, pr eventing
unwanted disto r tion and/o r colo r ing of the sound.
Phase Cont r ol technology pr ovides cohe r ent sound
r e pr oduction th r ough the use of p hase matching
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fo r an
o p timal sound image. The default setting is on and we
r ecommend leaving Phase Cont r ol switched on fo r all
sound sou r ces.
• Press , then press PHASE CTRL (PHASE
CONTROL) to switch on phase correction.
The PHASE CONTROL indicato r on the f r ont p anel lights.
Note
1 • These settings have no effect when head p hones a r e connected.
• You can also pr ess
/
to select the MCACC pr eset.
2 • This r eceive r can only p lay back Dolby Digital, PCM (32 kHz to 192 kHz), DTS (including DTS 96/24) and WMA9 P r o digital signal fo r mats.
The com p atible signals via the HDMI te r minals a r e: Dolby Digital, DTS, WMA9 P r o, PCM (32 kHz to 192 kHz), Dolby T r ueHD, Dolby Digital Plus,
DTS-EXPRESS, DTS-HD Maste r Audio and SACD.
• You may get digital noise when an LD, CD, DVD o r BD p laye r com p atible with DTS is p laying an analog signal. To pr event noise, make the
pr o p e r digital connections ( p age 27) and set the signal in p ut to
DIGITAL
.
• Some DVD p laye r s don’t out p ut DTS signals. Fo r mo r e details, r efe r to the inst r uction manual su pp lied with you r DVD p laye r .
3 When the
HDMI
audio out p ut p a r amete r is set to
THROUGH
, the sound will be hea r d th r ough you r TV, not f r om this r eceive r .
4 • This is useful if you find the r e is a slight delay befo r e
AUTO
r ecognizes the PCM signal on a CD, fo r instance.
• When PCM is selected, noise may be out p ut du r ing p layback of non-PCM sou r ces. Please select anothe r in p ut signal if this is a pr oblem.
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5 • Phase matching is a ve r y im p o r tant facto r in achieving pr o p e r sound r e pr oduction. If two wavefo r ms a r e ‘in p hase’, they c r est and t r ough
togethe r , r esulting in inc r eased am p litude, cla r ity and pr esence of the sound signal. If a c r est of a wave meets a t r ough, then the sound will
be ‘out of p hase’ and an un r eliable sound image will be pr oduced.
• The
PHASE CONTROL
featu r e is available even when the head p hones a r e p lugged in.
• If you r subwoofe r has a p hase cont r ol switch, set it to the p lus (+) sign (o r 0°). Howeve r , the effect you can actually feel when
PHASE CONTROL
is set to
ON
on this r eceive r de p ends on the ty p e of you r subwoofe r . Set you r subwoofe r to maximize the effect. It is also
r ecommended you t r y changing the o r ientation o r the p lace of you r subwoofe r .
• Set the built-in low p ass filte r switch of you r subwoofe r to off. If this cannot be done on you r subwoofe r , set the cutoff f r equency to a highe r
value.
• If the s
p eake r distance is not pr o p e r ly set, you may not have a maximized
PHASE CONTROL
effect.
• The
PHASE CONTROL
mode cannot be set to
ON
in the following cases:
– When the
PURE DIRECT
mode is switched on.
– When the
HDMI
audio out p ut p a r amete r is set to
THROUGH
in
Setting the Audio options
on p age 55.
RECEIVER
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