Listening to your system
06
58
En
Using Stream Direct
Use the St
r
eam Di
r
ect modes when you want to hea
r
the
t
r
uest possible
r
ep
r
oduction of a sou
r
ce. All unnecessa
r
y
signal p
r
ocessing is bypassed, and you’
r
e left with the
pu
r
e analog o
r
digital sound sou
r
ce. P
r
ocessing diffe
r
s
depending on the input signal and whethe
r
o
r
not
su
rr
ound back speake
r
s a
r
e connected. Fo
r
details, see
Auto Surround, ALC and Stream Direct with different input
signal formats
on page 132.
1
Set the remote control to the receiver operation
mode.
2
While listening to a source, press AUTO/ALC/
DIRECT (AUTO SURR/ALC/STREAM DIRECT) to select
the mode you want.
Check the digital fo
r
mat indicato
r
s in the f
r
ont panel
display to see how the sou
r
ce is being p
r
ocessed.
•
AUTO SURROUND
– See
Auto playback
on page 55.
•
ALC
– Listening in Auto level cont
r
ol mode (page 55).
•
DIRECT
– Plays back sound f
r
om the sou
r
ce with the
least modification next to
PURE DIRECT
. With
DIRECT
, the only modifications added to
PURE
DIRECT
playback a
r
e calib
r
ation of the sound field by
the MCACC system and the Phase Cont
r
ol effect.
•
PURE DIRECT
– Plays back unmodified sound f
r
om
sou
r
ce with only minimal digital t
r
eatment. No sound
is output f
r
om the Speake
r
B in this mode.
•
OPTIMUM SURR
(SC-LX83 only)
– Listening in
Optimum Su
rr
ound mode (page 55).
Selecting MCACC presets
• Default setting:
MEMORY 1
If you have calib
r
ated you
r
system fo
r
diffe
r
ent listening
positions, 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
example, watching movies f
r
om a sofa, o
r
playing a
video game close to the TV).
1
Set the remote control to the receiver operation
mode.
2
While listening to a source, press MCACC.
P
r
ess
r
epeatedly to select one of the six MCACC p
r
esets
1
.
See
Data Management
on page 107 to check and
manage you
r
cu
rr
ent settings.
Choosing the input signal
On this
r
eceive
r
, it is possible to switch the input signals
fo
r
the diffe
r
ent inputs as desc
r
ibed below.
2
1
Set the remote control to the receiver operation
mode.
2
Press SIGNAL SEL to select the input signal
corresponding to the source component.
Each p
r
ess cycles th
r
ough the options 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 optical o
r
coaxial digital signal.
•
HDMI
– Selects an HDMI signal.
3
•
PCM
– Fo
r
PCM input 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 page 15).
Better sound using Phase Control
This
r
eceive
r
’s Phase Cont
r
ol featu
r
e uses phase
co
rr
ection measu
r
es to make su
r
e you
r
sound sou
r
ce
a
rr
ives at the listening position in phase, p
r
eventing
unwanted disto
r
tion and/o
r
colo
r
ing of the sound.
Note
1 • These settings have no effect when headphones a
r
e connected.
• You can also p
r
ess
/
to select the MCACC p
r
eset.
2 • This
r
eceive
r
can only play 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 compatible 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 playe
r
compatible with DTS is playing an analog signal. To p
r
event noise, make the
p
r
ope
r
digital connections (page 33) and set the signal input to
DIGITAL
.
• Some DVD playe
r
s don’t output DTS signals. Fo
r
mo
r
e details,
r
efe
r
to the inst
r
uction manual supplied with you
r
DVD playe
r
.
3 When the
HDMI
audio output pa
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 output du
r
ing playback of non-PCM sou
r
ces. Please select anothe
r
input signal if this is a p
r
oblem.
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