Listening to your system
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Chapter 5:
Listening to your system
Important
• The listening modes and many features described in
this section may not be available depending on the
current source, settings and status of the receiver.
See
Listening modes with different input signal
formats
on page 77 for more on this.
Tip
• The listening modes described below can also be
selected using the front panel controls. Simply press
LISTENING MODE
repeatedly to access the modes
you want, then use the
MULTI JOG
to select a
particular listening mode (after five seconds the
mode is automatically set).
Auto playback
There are many ways to listen back to sources using this
receiver, but for the simplest, most direct listening option
is the Auto Surround feature. The receiver automatically
detects what kind of source you’re playing and selects
multichannel or stereo playback as necessary.
1
•
While listening to a source, press S.DIRECT
2
for
auto playback of a source.
AUTO SURROUND
shows briefly in the display before
showing the decoding or playback format. Check the
digital format indicators in the front panel display to see
how the source is being processed.
Listening in surround sound
Using this receiver, you can listen to any source in
surround sound. However, the options available will
depend on your speaker setup and the type of source
you’re listening to.
If you connected surround back speakers, see also
Using
surround back channel processing
on page 29.
Standard surround sound
The following modes provide basic surround sound for
stereo and multichannel sources.
3
•
While listening to a source, press STANDARD.
If necessary, press repeatedly to select a listening mode.
• If the source is Dolby Digital, DTS, or Dolby Surround
encoded, the proper decoding format will
automatically be selected and shows in the display.
4
With two channel sources
, you can select from:
•
2
Pro Logic IIx MOVIE
– Up to 7.1 channel sound,
especially suited to movie sources
•
2
Pro Logic IIx MUSIC
– Up to 7.1 channel sound,
especially suited to music sources
5
•
2
Pro Logic IIx GAME
– Up to 7.1 channel sound,
especially suited to video games
•
2
PRO LOGIC
– 4.1 channel surround sound (sound
from the surround speakers is mono)
•
Neo:6 CINEMA
– 6.1 channel sound, especially
suited to movie sources
•
Neo:6 MUSIC
– 6.1 channel sound, especially suited
to music sources
6
With multichannel sources, if you have connected
surround back speaker(s) and have selected
SBch ON
, you
can select (according to format):
Note
1 • Stereo surround (matrix) formats are decoded accordingly using
Neo:6 CINEMA
or
2
Pro Logic IIx MOVIE
(see
Listening in surround sound
above
for more on these decoding formats).
• The Auto Surround feature is canceled if you connect headphones or select the multichannel analog inputs.
2 For more options using this button, see
Using Stream Direct
on page 28.
SHIFT
STATUS
SIGNAL SEL
THX
ADV.SURR
SB ch
MULTI OPE
STANDARD
PHASE
S.DIRECT
MCACC
RECEIVER
STEREO/
F.S.SURR
3 In modes that give 6.1 channel sound, the same signal is heard from both surround back speakers.
4 If surround back channel processing (page 29) is switched
OFF
, or the surround back speakers are set to
NO
(this happens automatically if the
Surround
back speaker setting
on page 39 is set to anything but
Normal (SB)
),
2
Pro Logic IIx
becomes
2
Pro Logic II
(5.1 channel sound).
5 When listening to 2-channel sources in Dolby Pro Logic IIx Music mode, there are three further parameters you can adjust: Center Width, Dimension,
and Panorama. See
Setting the AV options
on page 58 to adjust them.
6 When listening to 2-channel sources in Neo:6 Music mode, you can also adjust the center image effect (see
Setting the AV options
on page 58).
SHIFT
STATUS
SIGNAL SEL
THX
ADV.SURR
SB ch
MULTI OPE
STANDARD
PHASE
S.DIRECT
MCACC
RECEIVER
STEREO/
F.S.SURR
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