05Listening to your system, Listening in stereo

05Listening to your system

Setting	What it does	Options
Effect	Sets the effect level for the	10 to 90
	currently selected Advanced
	Surround mode (each mode
	can be set separately).

Choosing the input signal

• Default setting: AUTO

You need to hook up a component to both analog and digital inputs on the rear of the

aOnly available with 2ch sources in Dolby Pro Logic IIx Mu- sic mode (also available with 2 Pro Logic II 5.1sound).

bOnly available with 2ch sources in Neo:6 Music mode.

Listening in stereo

When you select STEREO or DIRECT, you will hear the source through just the front left and right speakers (and possibly your subwoofer depending on your speaker settings).

Dolby Digital and DTS multichannel sources are downmixed to stereo.

CD CD-R FM AM

MIDNIGHT/

STANDARD ADV.SURR STEREO LOUDNESS

TOP MENU

•While listening to a source, press STEREO for stereo playback.

Press repeatedly to switch between:

•STEREO – The audio is heard with your surround settings and you can still use the Midnight, Loudness, and Tone functions.

•DIRECT – Bypass all effects and surround settings so that the audio remains as close to the source audio signal as possible.1

•AUTO SURR. – See Auto playback on page 22 for more on this.

receiver to select between input signals.2

•Press SIGNAL SELECT (front panel) to select the input signal corresponding to the source component.

Each press cycles through the following:

•AUTO – This automatically switches to DIGITAL if a digital source is detected, otherwise it remains on ANALOG.

•ANALOG – Selects the analog inputs.

•DIGITAL – Selects the digital input.

When set to DIGITAL or AUTO, 2 DIGITAL lights when a Dolby Digital signal is input, and DTS lights when a DTS signal is input.

Using surround back channel processing

• Default setting: SB ON

You can have the receiver automatically use 6.1 decoding for 6.1 encoded sources (for example, Dolby Digital EX or DTS-ES), or you can choose to always use 6.1 decoding (for example, with 5.1 encoded material). With 5.1 encoded sources, a surround back channel will be generated, but the material may sound better in the 5.1 format for which it was origi- nally encoded (in which case, you can simply

switch surround back processing off).3

Note

1If you switch on Midnight listening, Loudness, Dialog Enhancement, the Sound Retriever or the tone controls when DIRECT is selected, the receiver automatically switches to STEREO.

2• This receiver can only playback Dolby Digital, PCM (32 kHz to 96 kHz), DTS and WMA9 Pro digital signal formats. With other digital signal formats, set to ANALOG.

•You may get digital noise when a LD or CD player compatible with DTS is playing an analog signal. To prevent noise, make the proper digital connections (page 9) 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.

3You can’t use the surround back channel with headphones, the STEREO / DIRECT mode, or if the surround back speaker is set to NO in Speaker setting on page 28. Also, the Surround back speaker setting on page 27 must be set to SB NORM. to hear the surround back channel.