Movies and Other Audio-Visual Sources
ADVANCED MOVIE:
Optimized for enjoying movies at home. The realistic
enveloping sound this mode delivers makes you feel as if you were in a movie theater.
SCI-FI:
Designed for science fiction movies, creates a broad sound space and
heightens the overall impact of the soundtrack.
DRAMA:
Dialog plays a crucial role in drama movies. This mode enhances
conversations and monologues.
ACTION:
Optimized for movies in which sound effects play an important role.
Surround channels provide an enveloping sound extending upward.
MUSICAL:
Recreates reflections you would hear in an ideal spherical sound space,
letting you enjoy music as if you were in the best theater.
MONOFILM:
Converts mono or stereo into multichannel surround.
It works effectively with old movies and sporting events.
7-D THEATER:
Plays Dolby Surround sources as dynamically as 7.1-channel
Digital Surround does.
EXPANDED:
Stereo sources — CDs, videotapes, records — sound as expansive as
7.1- or 5.1-channel sources.
SPORTS:
Designed for sports programs with a lot of action. Adds to the
excitement by bringing background action to the forefront.
ADVANCED GAME:
Useful when playing video games. Works especially well with
sound moving from left to right in game software with a lot of movement.
PhonesSurround:
Delivers the effect of overall surround through headphones.
ADVANCED VIRTUAL SURROUND:
A virtual surround effect using just the
subwoofer and front speakers.
VIRTUAL SURROUND:
A virtual surround effect using just the subwoofer and
front speakers.
Music Sources
ADVANCED MUSIC:
Intensifies the feel of being in a concert hall while you
enjoy music on CDs, tapes and other media.
CLASSICAL:
Simulates the sound field of a large concert hall where concerts by
full orchestras take place.
CHAMBER:
Simulates the sonority of a medium-sized concert hall built from
stone or concrete.
JAZZ:
Optimized for simulating the sound space of a jazz club with rich
reverberations, to make you feel you're sitting in front of musicians.
ROCK:
Simulates the sound field of a medium-sized concert hall.
Bass sounds dynamic and the sense of ambience is enhanced.
DANCE:
Simulates the reverberation-rich ambience of a dance club with square
floor space, letting you enjoy the excitement of a dance floor.
7ch STEREO:
This "Party Mode" mixes multi-channel sounds down to stereo for
playback on seven speakers. You can enjoy music in full stereo even if you are
sitting close to the surround speakers.
VSX-84TXSi
VSX-82TXS
VSX-81TXV
VSX-80TXV
(TV Surround)
Dolby Pro Logic II
Dolby Pro Logic II is an advanced version of
the original. Pro Logic matrix decodes the
Dolby Surround signal and creates Front Right,
Front Center, Front Left, and monaural Surround, but the
Surround channel is limited in separation and frequency
response.
Pro Logic II, created by Dolby Laboratories, is a
modified version to improve Dolby Surround and allow it to
deliver a performance as realistic as Dolby Digital 5.1 offers.
It competes with Circle Surround, DTS NEO:6, Pioneer's 5-D
Theater/Expanded Theater, etc., that, the manufacturers claim,
can decode Dolby Surround just like Dolby Digital 5.1. Pro
Logic II has three modes: Movie, Music and Pro Logic.
Pro Logic II Movie:
A mode suitable for movies.
It features a process to reduce crosstalk from the dialog to
surround channels, providing nearly the same degree of
separation and sense of movement as Dolby Digital 5.1.
Pro Logic II Music:
A mode for music reproduction.
This mode is especially effective when playing back
conventional stereo sources on CDs and other media.
Surround channels enhance the sense of a surrounding
ambience, rather than definition and localization.
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Advanced Surround Effects
Pioneer's exclusive DSP technology lets you have an expansive and realistic experience of movies and music with a wide variety of
customized surround modes. These modes are created for practical applications.
Dolby Digital EX
The Pioneer Elite A/V receivers come with the
Dolby Digital EX decoder. This technology
features its capability of decoding the latest theater sound
sources for a 6.1-channel output — 5.1-channel plus a back
surround channel. The additional surround sound from behind
the listener gives the extra sense of dimensional detail and
intensified involvement.
DTS 96/24
DTS 96/24 is the first compressed surround
format technology to support high sound
resolution of 96 kHz and 24 bits and multichannel capabilities,
which was applied for a Pioneer Elite A/V receiver, the
VSX-49TXi, for the first time in the world.
Advantages
• DTS 96/24 can deliver 5.1 channels in 96/24 along with
full-motion video, for feature film soundtracks and music
programs on DVD-Video whereas 96/24 has been available
on DVD-Video in only two channels, and with video
limitations.
• DTS 96/24 can also be used on DVD-Audio discs where a
DTS 96/24 track can be placed in the video zone, so that
people without DVD-Audio players can enjoy multichannel
96/24 quality using their DVD-Video players.
• The DTS 96/24 soundtrack is fully backward-compatible
with all existing DTS decoders, which will deliver up to
48 kHz/24 bits.
Main Features
(1) Reproduces high-quality sound, exactly as recorded on 96 kHz,
24-bit master tapes at the most advanced recording studios.
(2) Full backward compatibility with A/V amplifiers and
DVD-Video players equipped with conventional DTS
decoders, allowing playback of existing DTS recordings on
these devices with the same high sound quality.
(3) High-quality DTS 96/24 sound reproduction using an
existing DVD-Video player (with DTS digital outputs)
connected via digital cable to a DTS 96/24 A/V receiver.
(4) The DTS 96/24 format enables high-quality multi-channel
sound reproduction at 96 kHz and 24 bits through 5.1 channels,
without any degradation in the high picture quality of the
DVD-Video format, thanks to its low compression rate of audio
signals. DVD-Video movies or music can be enjoyed with a
quality of sound approaching that of DVD-Audio and SACD.
DTS-ES
DTS-ES utilizes an additional rear channel to create a true 3-
dimensional surround field. In a cinema, this surround back
channel was created by matrixing the left back and right back
channels, just as early surround formats used by a matrix field
to create front center channel sound.
When a film soundtrack is transferred to DVD, a
matrixed back channel automatically appears in the 5.1-channel
format. DTS-ES Discrete 6.1 takes advantages of the greater
bandwidth of DTS technology to create a discrete center back
channel. This channel is captured with a new generation of
decoders like the one built into Pioneer Elite receivers. The
advantages of this system are clear:
• Discrete back channels can be played, restoring the left
surround and right surround as independent.
• A back channel is always matrixed in the left surround
and right surround on 5.1 soundtracks.
• It's fully compatible with any DTS-ES or 5.1-channel
recordings.
DTS NEO:6
The conventional matrix decoder derives a center channel and a
mono surround channel from a matrix-encoded two-channel
source. It delivers better sound than a simple matrix, because it
includes steering logic to improve separation, but the monaural,
band-limited surround can be disappointing to users
accustomed to discrete multi-channel surround sound. DTS
NEO:6 provides significant improvement over the conventional
technology. It conducts matrix decoding to provide up to six
full-band channels from matrix-encoded stereo sources. With
6.1-channel or 5.1-channel systems, DTS NEO:6 will derive six
or five separate channels, respectively, corresponding to the
standard home-theater speaker layouts. (The 0.1ch subwoofer
channel is generated by bass management in the pre amp or
receiver).
DTS NEO:6 can steer a single channel or separately
steer channels in various ways, to deliver multi-channel sound
without losing the quality of the original. In addition to
"Cinema mode" suited for movie sources, DTS NEO:6 offers
"Music mode", which delivers natural multi-channel surround
sound from non-matrix-encoded stereo sources.
Windows Media
®
Audio 9 Professional (WMA9 Pro)
The Pioneer Elite A/V receivers incorporate a WMA9 Pro
decoder, the first surround sound coding technology for the
Web — developed by Pioneer with technical cooperation from
Microsoft. When connected to a multi-channel-equipped PC,
you are able to enjoy high-resolution stereo (96 kHz/24-bit) or
5.1-channel surround audio at 128 k-768 kbps compression
rates. At any given bit rate, 5-channel WMA9 Pro will bring
you higher fidelity than other sound compression algorithms
thanks to the latest audio codec technology.
*Windows Media, and the Windows logo are trademarks, or registered trademarks of
Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries.
Dolby Pro Logic IIx
The Elite A/V receivers come with Dolby Pro
Logic IIx. This technology is the first to
provide 7.1-channel surround sound from
stereo or 5.1-channel sources, for the most natural and seamless
surround sound experience. The units process Dolby Pro Logic IIx
at 96 kHz sampling rate with 24-bit resolution.
