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Listening to your system
!
F.S.SURR 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.SURR WIDE
– Use to provide a surround sound effect to a wider area than
FOCUS
mode.
FOCUS
position
(Recommended)
WIDE
position
Front left
speaker
Front right
speaker
Front left
speaker
Front right
speaker
!
SOUND RETRIEVER AIR
– Suitable for listening to the sound from a
Bluetooth
wireless technology device. The
SOUND RETRIEVER AIR
listening mode can only be selected when the
ADAPTER PORT
input.
!
PHONES SURR
– When listening through headphones, you can still get the effect of overall surround.
Note
!
When an Advanced Surround listening mode is selected, the effect level can be adjusted using the
EFFECT
parameter in
Setting the Audio options
on
page 58
However, with
F.S.SURR FOCUS
,
F.S.SURR WIDE
and
SOUND RETRIEVER AIR
, the effect level cannot be
adjusted.
!
The Front Stage Surround Advance (
F.S.SURR FOCUS
and
F.S.SURR WIDE
) function allows you to create natu-
ral surround sound effects using just the front speakers and the subwoofer.
Using Stream Direct
Use the Stream Direct modes when you want to hear the truest possible reproduction of a source. All unneces-
sary signal processing is bypassed, and you’re left with the pure analog or digital sound source.
Processing differs depending on the input signal and whether or not surround back speakers are connected. For
details, see
Auto Surround, ALC and Stream Direct with different input signal formats
on
page 97
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While listening to a source, press AUTO/ALC/DIRECT (AUTO SURR/ALC/STREAM DIRECT) to
select the mode you want.
Check the digital format indicators in the front panel display to see how the source is being processed.
!
AUTO SURROUND
– See
Auto playback
on
page 45
!
ALC
– Listening in Auto level control mode (
page 45
!
DIRECT
– Plays back sound from the source with the least modification next to
PURE DIRECT
. With
DIRECT
,
the only modifications added to
PURE DIRECT
playback are calibration of the sound field by the MCACC sys-
tem and the Phase Control effect.
!
PURE DIRECT
– Plays back unmodified sound from source with only minimal digital treatment.
Note
!
When listening through headphones, you can select
ALC
or
PURE DIRECT
mode only.
Selecting MCACC presets
!
Default setting:
MEMORY 1
If you have calibrated your system for different listening positions, you can switch between settings to suit the
kind of source you’re listening to and where you’re sitting (for example, watching movies from a sofa, or playing a
video game close to the TV).
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While listening to a source, press MCACC.
Press repeatedly to select one of the six MCACC presets. See
Data Management
on
page 77
to check and man-
age your current settings.
!
These settings have no effect when headphones are connected.
!
You can also press
k
/
l
to select the MCACC preset.
Choosing the input signal
On this receiver, it is possible to switch the input signals for the different inputs as described below.
!
This receiver can only play back Dolby Digital, PCM (32 kHz to 192 kHz) and DTS (including DTS 96/24) digital
signal formats. The compatible signals via the HDMI terminals are: Dolby Digital, DTS, PCM (32 kHz to 192
kHz), Dolby TrueHD, Dolby Digital Plus, DTS-EXPRESS, DTS-HD Master Audio and SACD.
!
You may get digital noise when an LD, CD, DVD or BD player compatible with DTS is playing an analog signal.
To prevent noise, make the proper digital connections (
page 21
) and set the signal input to
DIGITAL
.
!
Some DVD players don’t output DTS signals. For more details, refer to the instruction manual supplied with
your DVD player.
1 Press
to the receiver operation mode.
2 Press SIGNAL SEL to select the input signal corresponding to the source component.
Each press cycles through the options as follows:
!
AUTO
– The receiver selects the first available signal in the following order:
HDMI
;
DIGITAL
;
ANALOG
.
!
ANALOG
– Selects an analog signal.
!
DIGITAL
– Selects an optical or coaxial digital signal.
!
HDMI
– Selects an HDMI signal.
—
When the
HDMI
audio output parameter is set to
THROUGH
, the sound will be heard through your TV, not
from this receiver.
When set to
DIGITAL
,
HDMI
or
AUTO
(only selected
DIGITAL
or
HDMI
), the indicators light according to the
signal being decoded (see
Display
on
page 13
).
