Listening to your system
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Chapter 2
Listening to your system
About the listening modes
As explained in
Home theater sound setup
on
page 6, there are two basic surround speaker
setup options available with any of the listening
modes:
•
Standard surround 5-spot setup
– Use
any of the surround listening modes with
this setup (except Front Surround).
•
Front surround 3-spot setup
– Make sure
the Front Surround mode is switched on
before selecting a surround listening mode
(see
Using Front Surround
on page 11).
Auto listening mode
The Auto listening mode is the simplest way to
listen to any source as it was mastered: the
output from the speakers mirrors the channels
in the source material.
•
Press
SHIFT+SURROUND
to select the
AUTO listening mode.
1
Listening in surround sound
You can listen to stereo or multichannel
sources in surround sound.
2
Surround sound
is generated from stereo sources using one of
the Dolby Pro Logic decoding modes.
•
Press
SHIFT+SURROUND
repeatedly to
select a listening mode.
1
The choices that appear in the display will vary
according to the type of source that’s playing.
•
AUTO
– Auto listening mode (see above)
•
DOLBY DIGITAL
/
DTS
– Dolby Digital or
DTS decoding (depending on the source).
3
For a multichannel source, this will be the
same as
AUTO
.
•
PROLOGIC
– 4.1 channel surround sound
for use with any two-channel source
•
MOVIE
– Pro Logic II 5.1 channel surround
sound, especially suited to movie sources
(use with any two-channel source)
•
MUSIC
– Pro Logic II 5.1 channel surround
sound, especially suited to music sources,
for use with any two-channel source
•
STEREO
– See
Listening in stereo
below
Using Front Surround
The Front Surround mode is effective when you
are using the Front surround 3-spot speaker
setup as described in
Home theater sound
setup
on page 6. The surround speakers
should be placed on top of the front speakers
and oriented towards the walls (see the
Speaker
Setup Guide
) and
DVD/CD
must be selected as
the input source.
2
Note
1 If the source is Dolby Digital or DTS, the front panel
2
D
or
DTS
indicator lights.
2 • Note that the input source must be switched to
DVD/CD
for multichannel playback.
• If you’re planning on recording a multichannel source, refer to
Recording mode
on page 24.
SHIFT
CLEAR
SLEEP
DISPLAY
SURROUND
FRONT
SURROUND
SHIFT
CLEAR
SLEEP
DISPLAY
SURROUND
FRONT
SURROUND
3 When listening in
DOLBY DIGITAL
/
DTS
mode, two-channel material will automatically be played in surround sound using
Dolby Pro Logic II decoding.
SHIFT
CLEAR
SLEEP
DISPLAY
SURROUND
FRONT
SURROUND
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