Simple Home Theater Guide
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Set the operation selector switch to RCV, then press
AUTO/DIRECT (AUTO SURR/STREAM DIRECT) to
select ‘AUTO SURROUND’ and start playback of the
source.
1
If you’
r
e
p
laying a Dolby Digital o
r
DTS su
rr
ound sound
DVD disc, you should hea
r
su
rr
ound sound. If you a
r
e
p
laying a ste
r
eo sou
r
ce, you will only hea
r
sound f
r
om the
f
r
ont left/
r
ight s
p
eake
r
s in the default listening mode.
• See also
Listening to your system
on
p
age 35 fo
r
info
r
mation on diffe
r
ent ways of listening to sou
r
ces.
It is
p
ossible to check on the f
r
ont
p
anel dis
p
lay whethe
r
o
r
not multi-channel
p
layback is being
p
e
r
fo
r
med
pr
o
p
e
r
ly.
When using a su
rr
ound back s
p
eake
r
,
2
D+PLIIx
MOVIE
is dis
p
layed when
p
laying Dolby Digital signals,
and
DTS+Neo:6
is dis
p
layed when
p
laying DTS 5.1-
channel signals.
When not using a su
rr
ound back s
p
eake
r
,
DOLBY
DIGITAL
is dis
p
layed when
p
laying Dolby Digital signals.
Fo
r
othe
r
details, see
Listening modes with different input
signal formats
on
p
age 124. If the dis
p
lay does not
co
rr
es
p
ond to the in
p
ut signal and listening mode, check
the connections and settings.
4
Use the volume control to adjust the volume level.
Tu
r
n down the volume of you
r
TV so that all sound is
coming f
r
om the s
p
eake
r
s connected to this
r
eceive
r
.
Better sound using Phase Control and
Full Band Phase Control
This
r
eceive
r
is equi
pp
ed with the two ty
p
es of functions
that co
rr
ect
p
hase disto
r
tion and g
r
ou
p
delay: Phase
Cont
r
ol and Full Band Phase Cont
r
ol. Activating Full
Band Phase Cont
r
ol is st
r
ongly
r
ecommended because it
also involves the effects of Phase Cont
r
ol. Fo
r
details on
each of these two featu
r
es,
r
efe
r
to the following
ex
p
lanations.
Using Phase Control
Du
r
ing multichannel
p
layback, LFE (Low-F
r
equency
Effects) signals as well as low-f
r
equency signals in each
channel a
r
e assigned to the subwoofe
r
o
r
othe
r
the
subwoofe
r
and the most a
ppr
o
pr
iate s
p
eake
r
. At least in
theo
r
y, howeve
r
, this ty
p
e of
pr
ocessing involves a g
r
ou
p
delay that va
r
ies with f
r
equency,
r
esulting in
p
hase
disto
r
tion whe
r
e the low-f
r
equency sound is delayed o
r
muffled by the conflict with othe
r
channels. With the
Phase Cont
r
ol mode switched on, this
r
eceive
r
can
r
e
pr
oduce
p
owe
r
ful bass sound without dete
r
io
r
ating the
quality of the o
r
iginal sound (see illust
r
ation below).
Phase Control OFF
• Rhythms blu
rr
ed and difficult to hea
r
• Bass sound with loss of de
p
th
• Sound of musical inst
r
uments with no
r
eality
Phase Control ON
• Rhythms with c
r
ystal-like cla
r
ity
• Bass sound with no loss of de
p
th
• Sound of musical inst
r
uments with su
p
e
r
b
r
eality
Note
1 • You may need to check the digital audio out
p
ut settings on you
r
DVD
p
laye
r
o
r
digital satellite
r
eceive
r
. It should be set to out
p
ut Dolby
Digital, DTS and 88.2 kHz / 96 kHz PCM (2 channel) audio, and if the
r
e is an MPEG audio o
p
tion, set this to conve
r
t the MPEG audio to PCM.
• De
p
ending on you
r
DVD
p
laye
r
o
r
sou
r
ce discs, you may only get digital 2 channel ste
r
eo and analog sound. In this case, the
r
eceive
r
must
be set to a multichannel listening mode (see
Listening in surround sound
on
p
age 35 if you need to do this) if you want multichannel su
rr
ound
sound.
F
r
ont s
p
eake
r
Subwoofe
r
Sound
sou
r
ce
Sound muffled due
to a delay in time
Listening
p
osition
F
r
ont s
p
eake
r
Subwoofe
r
Sound
sou
r
ce
O
r
iginal sound
pr
ese
r
ved with no
loss of cla
r
ity
Listening
p
osition
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