Listening Modes

The TX-SR701/701E/601/601E’s surround sound enables you to enjoy the presence of a movie theater or concert hall in your room. The conﬁguration of the speakers is very important for the surround sound. Refer to “Connecting speakers” on page 25.

Before using a listening mode, make sure the Speaker Conﬁg, Speaker Distance, and Level Calibration parameters have been set (see pages 31 to 36). Once the parameters have been set, it is not necessary to set them again. See pages 48, 50 for information regarding how to select the listening mode.

Listening Modes

Mono

This mode is for playing old movies where the sound is recorded in monaural or for playing the left and right channels of movies separately that contain different language signals. This mode also allows you to listen to the multiplexed soundtracks on DVDs, and other media that have them.

Direct

This mode delivers pure sound with minimum sound quality adjustment and ﬁltration. The sound recorded for the right and left front channels is output to the right and left front speakers only and not output to the subwoofer.

Pure Audio (TX-SR701/701E only)

Same as the direct mode except that the pure audio mode also turns off the display window, turns off the power supply to the video circuitry, and minimizes the sources of noise. The result is high- ﬁdelity music playback true to the original source.

Stereo

All input sound is output from the left and right front speakers. The subwoofer is also used for playback.

T-D (Theater-Dimensional)

For the best enjoyment of your home theater, it is recommended that you have front left and right speakers, a center speaker, and surround left and right speakers. However, if you only have front left and right speakers, you can enjoy multichannel audio by using this mode.

This mode controls the characteristics of the sound that reaches each ear to reproduce a multi-speaker setup. To receive the full effect, there is an optimum listening position (sweet spot). Refer to the explanation of the listening angle. In addition, if the reﬂective sound components are large, it may be difﬁcult to achieve the desired result, so be sure to set up your system and listening position to minimize reﬂective sound.

Dolby Pro Logic II

Opposed to Dolby Pro Logic, which had four channels (front, left, center, and surround) recorded into two channels with matrix processing and then played back in four channels, Dolby Pro Logic

IIuses a feedback logic circuit to have 5.1-channel surround audio (Dolby Surround, etc.) matrix-encoded into two channels and then played back in its original 5.1-channel form.

Dolby Pro Logic II provides a Movie mode designed for playing movies and a Music mode designed for listening to music. In the Movie mode, the surround channels, which used to provide monaural output over only a narrow frequency range, now provide complete stereo output over the full frequency range. The result is movie viewing with a realistic feel of movement. The Music mode uses the surround channels to provide a natural soundﬁeld that cannot be provided with normal stereo output.

This mode can be used with VHS and DVD videos with the mark and certain television programs. The Music mode can be used with music compact discs and other stereo

sources.

Dolby D (Dolby Digital)

This mode is used for playing Dolby Digital sources.

Dolby Digital is compressed digital data with a maximum of 5.1- channel surround sound. This source signal comes from DVDs and

LDs that have the mark and therefore recorded for 5.1- channel output.

• Dolby Digital EX

Enabled when playing back sources with surround tracks that were encoded using the Surround EX technology.

• Dialog norm

Dialogue Normalization (Dialog Norm) is a feature of Dolby Digital. When playing back software that has been encoded in Dolby Digital, sometimes you may see a brief message in the front panel display that reads Dialog Norm xdB (“x” being a numeric value). Dialogue Normalization serves to let you know if the source material has been recorded at a higher or lower level than usual. This data is automatically used by the Dolby Digital decoder to adjust the output volume of the source material without affecting the volume of your ampliﬁer. Therefore, even if source material volume changes, you will not have to adjust the volume on your ampliﬁer.

DTS Neo:6

This mode is for 6.1-channel playback of sources such as PCM or analog sources that have only two channels. The outputs of all six channels are a wide frequency range with a great separation between the different channels.

This mode can be set to the Cinema mode designed for playing movies and the Music mode designed for listening to music.

The Cinema mode is good for movies. The reproduced surround sound provide the same realistic feel of movement as 6.1-channel sources. This mode can be used with VHS and television programs with stereo sound.

The Music mode uses the surround channels to provide a natural sound space that cannot be provided with normal stereo output. This mode can be used with music CDs and other stereo sources.

DTS

This mode is used for playing DTS source.

DTS (Digital Theater System) is compressed digital data with a maximum 5.1-channel surround output (6.1-channel with DTS-ES Discrete sources) that allows for an extremely high-quality sound. This source signal requires a DVD player that supports DTS output and comes from DVDs, compact discs, and LDs that have the mark.

DTS-ES Discrete 6.1

With the addition of the surround back channel, this new format has all 6.1 channels recorded independently for a completely discrete digital format. Since all channels are recorded independently, high- ﬁdelity surround playback with the increased feeling of a separated sound space is achieved.

DTS-ES Matrix 6.1

This format has the surround back channel matrix encoded and inserted into the left and right surround channels so that at playback the output for the left, right, and back surround channels are decoded using a high-precision matrix decoder.

DTS 96/24

Automatically changes to this mode when playing back sources with surround tracks that were encoded using the DTS 96/24 technology.

THX (TX-SR701/701E only)

This mode is for playing back sources recorded in the THX format. For the utmost in ﬁdelity when playing back THX sources, it is also recommended to use a THX-certiﬁed speaker system.