Speaker Placement—Continued

Available Speaker Placements According to the Number of Speakers

The following speaker placements will be available according to the number of speakers connected to the RDC-7.1. For the number of speaker channel, _.1 ch represents a subwoofer.

Key to abbreviations:

FL: Front left speaker, FR: Front right speaker, C: Center

speaker, SL: Surround left speaker, SR: Surround right

speaker, SBL: Surround back left speaker, SBR: Surround

back right speaker, SW: Subwoofer

2 ch/2.1 ch

 

 

 

 

 

This placement is used with

 

 

 

SW

two speakers (front left and

 

FL

 

FR

 

right speakers). It is

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

optimum for 2 ch sources

5 ch/5.1 ch

This placement is suitable for

 

 

 

 

 

 

SW

playing 5.1 ch sources

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

FL

 

C

 

FR

 

including analog multichannel,

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dolby Digital, DTS, and AAC

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

format sources. When the

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

source is 2 ch or mono, the

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

signal will be decoded with

 

SL

 

 

 

 

 

SR

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dolby Pro Logic II or DTS

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

NEO:6 format and played as

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

5.1 ch sources.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

When the number of

channels in the source is 6.1 or greater, the surround

back signal will be distributed through the surround left and right speakers accordingly.

6 ch/6.1 ch/7 ch/7.1 ch (with center speaker)

including analog 2 ch, 2 ch

linear PCM, Dolby Digital,

DTS, DTS96/24, and AAC

format sources. When the

number of channels in the

source is 3.1 or greater, the

signals will be distributed

through the left and right channels accordingly.

3 ch/3.1 ch

FL

 

C

SL

SB

SW

FR

SR

SW

This placement is suitable for playing 6.1 ch sources including DTS-ES Matrix/ Discrete and Dolby Surround EX format signals.

When you use two surround back speakers, the same signal will be output from them because the surround back channel is mono. When the source is 2 ch or mono, it will

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FL

C

SW

FR

This placement is used with three speakers (front left, front right, and center speakers). When the number

FL

 

C

FR

be decoded with the Dolby Pro Logic IIx/DTS NEO:6 format and played as 6.1/7.1 ch sources.

Installation

of channels in the source is

4.1or greater, the signal for surround and surround back channels will be output through the front left and right speakers.

SL

SR

SBL

SBR

6 ch/6.1 ch/5 ch/5.1 ch (without center speaker)

4 ch/4.1 ch

SW

This placement is suitable for playing 5.1 or 6.1 ch sources

FL

SL

SW

FR

SR

In this placement, when the number of channels in the source is 5.1 or greater, the center channel signal will be output through the front left and right speakers, and the surround back channels will be output through the surround speakers.

FL

SL

SBL

FL

FR

SR

SBR

SW

FR

when the surround back sound is much more preferred than the center sound with less speaker units than the normal configuration. The center channel signal will be output through the front left and right speakers.

SL

SR

 

SB

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