Listening to your system
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Listening in stereo
When you select
STEREO
you will hear the
source through just the front left and right
speakers (and possibly your subwoofer
depending on your speaker settings).
Dolby Digital and DTS multichannel sources
are downmixed to stereo.
•
While listening to a source, press
STEREO/F.S.SURR for stereo playback.
Press repeatedly to switch between:
•
STEREO
– The audio is heard with your
surround settings and you can still use the
Midnight, Loudness, and Tone functions.
•
F.S.S.FOCUS
– See
Using Front Stage
Surround Advance
below for more on this.
•
F.S.S. WIDE
– See
Using Front Stage
Surround Advance
below for more on this.
Using Front Stage Surround
Advance
The Front Stage Surround Advance function
allows you to create natural surround sound
effects using just the front speakers and the
subwoofer.
•
While listening to a source, press STEREO/
F.S.SURR to select Front Stage Surround
Advance modes.
•
STEREO
– See
Listening in stereo
above for
•
F.S.S.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.S. WIDE
– Use to provide a surround
sound effect to a wider area than
FOCUS
mode.
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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.
•
While listening to a source, press AUTO
SURR to select Stream Direct mode.
•
AUTOSURR.
– See
Auto playback
on
page 22.
•
DIRECT
– Sources are heard according to
the settings made in the Surround Setup
(speaker setting, channel level, speaker
distance), as well as with dual mono,
Center Width, Dimension and Panorama
settings. You will hear sources according
to the number of channels in the signal.
For analog sources, only Channel Level can
be set. All other digital processing can not
be set.
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CD
MENU
AUTO SURR
STANDARD ADV.SURR
STEREO/
F.S.SURR
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CD
AUTO SURR
STANDARD ADV.SURR
STEREO/
F.S.SURR
Note
1 When using
F.S.S. WIDE
, a better effect can be obtained if Quick Setup is performed (see
Using the Quick Setup
on page 7).
Front left
speaker
Front right
speaker
FOCUS
position (Recommend)
Front left
speaker
Front right
speaker
WIDE
position
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STEREO/
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