Integra RDC-7.1 instruction manual Using the Listening Modes, Types of Listening Modes

Using the Listening Modes

Types of Listening Modes

Listening modes on the RDC-7.1 enable you to enjoy movie theater or concert hall quality sounds in your room. The RDC-7.1 provides the following listening modes. Before playing a source in optimal sound, be sure to complete the Speaker/Output Setup (See pages 92-94).

Direct

This mode allows you to enjoy pure sounds straight from an original source. Every channel of the audio input source will be output “as is” to respective chan- nels.

Pure Audio

In addition to the Direct mode, playback of music more faithful to the original sounds is enabled because the display window is turned off to minimize noise sources (the power supply to the video circuitry is also turned off, so nothing is displayed on the screen).

Stereo

Sounds are output from the right and left front speakers, and the subwoofer.

Mono

This mode is suitable for playing old movies recorded in monaural sound, or for playing the right and left channels separately on bilingual sources. This mode also allows you to listen to multiplexed soundtracks on DVDs and other sources.

Dolby Pro Logic II

This mode enables 5.1 channel playback of music and movies recorded in 2 channels. You can select the Movie mode, best designed for playing movies, the Music mode, best designed for listening to music, and the Game mode, best suited for enjoying games.

•PLII Movie

This mode can be used with VHS and DVD videos

with the mark, and certain television programs.

•PLII Music

This mode can be used with stereo music CDs and DVD recordings of live concerts.

•PLII Game

This mode can be used with game discs.

Dolby Pro Logic IIx

This mode reproduces in 5.1-7.1 channels music CDs and movies recorded in 2 channels. Together with clearer sounds, you will hear more natural and smoother surround effects than ever before. In addition to CDs and movies, game sources are played with a dramatic spatial presentation and with sound localization. And this mode enables 7.1 channel playback of music and movies recorded in 5.1 channels. You can select the PLIIx Movie and PLIIx Music mode.

•PLIIx Movie

This is the best mode for viewing movies.

•PLIIx Music

This is the best mode for playing music.

•PLIIx Game

This is the best mode for enjoying games, providing the best sense of signal movement.

Dolby Digital

This is a surround mode that will make you feel as if you are sitting in a seat inside a theater or concert hall. This mode

can be used with DVDs and LDs with the mark.

Dolby VS (Dolby Virtual Speaker)

The dynamic surround sound effects specific to 5.1 channel speakers are reproduced through 2 speakers. When combined with “Dolby Pro Logic II”/“DTS NEO:6,” this mode provides 5.1 channel surround music recorded in 2 channels on CD or MP3 through only 2 speakers. This mode can also be applied to a sys- tem equipped with more than 2 speakers.

If you are able to use only 2 speakers in a separate room (Zone 2 or Zone 3) or main room B, this mode will let you experience truly powerful sounds of a movie, CD or game through the virtual surround effects. When you use this mode with three or more speakers, the speakers used for output will depend on the input source and decoding mode.

Dolby Digital EX/Dolby EX

This mode enables 6.1 channel playback of music or movies recorded in 5.1 channels. Adding a surround channel to the backside of 5.1 channel speakers to make them 6.1 channel speakers will enhance space expressions that should give you a real feel of moving sounds such as 360-degree rotation or overhead flying. Since sounds on the surround back channel are divided into the surround left and right channels, this mode also enables conventional 5.1 channel playback. When playing DVDs and LDs recorded in 5.1 channels with

the mark, Dolby Digital EX mode turns on, and when playing other sources, Dolby EX turns on.

DTS

Sound data that would be of tremendous size if com- pletely divided into 5.1 channels are compressed into digital data with a status as close as possible to the orig- inal sounds. Playing in this mode requires a DVD player able to output DTS. This mode can be used with CDs,

DVDs and LDs with the mark.

DTS 96/24

This is a listening mode available with DTS 96/24. This mode allows you to enjoy delicate sounds.

DTS-ES Discrete

This is a 6.1 channel surround system based on DTS with a surround back channel added. Since all 6.1 chan- nels including the added surround back channel are recorded as completely independent digital data, a 3-D feeling and a sense of moving sounds are reproduced more clearly. This mode can be used with CDs, DVDs,

and LDs with the mark.

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