OPERATION
Surround Mode Chart
MODE | FEATURES | DELAY TIME RANGE |
Dolby Digital | Available only with digital input sources encoded with Dolby |
| Digital data. It provides up to five separate main audio channels |
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Center: 0 ms – 5 ms Initial Setting – 0 ms Surround: 0 ms – 15 ms Initial Setting – 0 ms
DTS | Available only with digital input sources encoded with DTS data. | Delay time not adjustable |
| Available on special DVD, LD and |
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| up to five separate main audio channels and a special dedicated |
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Dolby Pro Logic II | Dolby Pro Logic II is the latest version of Dolby Laboratory’s | Movie and Pro Logic: |
| benchmark surround technology that creates or decodes full- | 10 ms – 25 ms, |
| range, discrete left, center, right, right surround and left surround | Initial Setting – 10 ms, |
| channels from matrix | Music: |
| stereo sources. The Dolby Pro Logic II Movie mode is optimized for | 0 ms – 15 ms, |
| movie soundtracks that are recorded with matrix surround, by | Initial Setting – 0 ms |
| creating true rear left, center and right signals. The Dolby Pro Logic II |
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| Music mode should be used with musical selections that are recorded |
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| with matrix surround or with normal stereo mode, creating discrete |
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| rear left and right signals. The Dolby Pro Logic mode provides |
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| decoding that is identical to the original Dolby Pro Logic processing |
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| for those who prefer that presentation. In this mode, the surround |
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| channels are fed an identical monaural signal. |
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Dolby 3 Stereo | Uses the information contained in a | No surround channels |
| stereo program to create center channel information. In addition, |
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| the information that is normally sent to the rear channel surround |
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| speakers is carefully mixed in with the front left and front right |
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| channels for increased realism. Use this mode when you have a |
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| center channel speaker but no surround speakers. |
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Theater | The Theater mode creates a sound field that resembles the | Delay time not adjustable |
| acoustic feeling of a standard live performance theater, with |
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| stereo and even pure mono sources. |
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Hall 1 | The two Hall modes create sound fields that resemble a small | Delay time not adjustable |
Hall 2 | (Hall 1) or |
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| and even pure mono sources. |
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This mode takes advantage of multiple speakers to place a stereo signal | |
| at both the front and back of a room. Ideal for playing music in situations |
| such as a party, it places the same signal at the |
| left, and at the |
| is fed a summed mono mix of the |
| right channels. |
No delay is available for this mode
Surround Off | This mode turns off all surround processing and presents the pure | No surround channels |
(Stereo) | left and right channel presentation of |
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