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Creating Realistic Sound Fields
You can use the following Surround modes to reproduce a realistic sound field:
■Dolby Surround
•Dolby Pro Logic II
•Dolby Digital
■DTS Digital Surround
■DAP (Digital Acoustic Processor) modes
■All Channel Stereo
■Dolby Surround
Dolby Pro Logic II*
Dolby Pro Logic II has newly developed multichannel playback format to decode all 2 channel
Dolby Pro Logic II enables to reproduce spacious sound from original sound without adding any new sounds and tonal colorations. Dolby Pro Logic II has two
Pro Logic II DOLBY SURROUND . You can enjoy sound field very close to the one created with discrete
Pro Logic II
•When Dolby Pro Logic II is activated, the PL II indicator lights up on the display.
Dolby Digital*
Used to reproduce multichannel sound tracks of the software encoded with Dolby Digital ( D I G I T A L ).
•To enjoy the software encoded with Dolby Digital, connect the source component using the digital terminal on the rear of this receiver. (See page 7.)
Dolby Digital
Since each channel is completely independent from the other channel signals to avoid interference, you can obtain much better sound quality with much stereo and surround effects.
Note:
Dolby Digital software can be roughly grouped into two categories
■DTS Digital Surround**
Used to reproduce multichannel sound tracks of the software encoded with DTS Digital Surround ().
•To enjoy the software encoded with DTS Digital Surround, connect the source component using the digital terminal on the rear of this receiver. (See page 7.)
DTS Digital Surround is another discrete multichannel digital audio format available on CD, LD, and DVD software. Compared to Dolby Digital, audio compression ratio is relatively low. This fact allows DTS Digital Surround format to add breadth and depth to the reproduced sounds. As a result, DTS Digital Surround features natural, solid and clear sound.
Typical Multichannel (5.1-channel) reproduction
Center
speaker
Left front speaker
Left rear speaker
Right front
Subwoofer speaker
Right rear
speaker
* Manufactured under license from Dolby Laboratories. “Dolby,” “Pro | **Manufactured underlicense from Digital Theater Systems, Inc. US |
Logic,” and the | PAT. No. 5,451,942 and other |
Laboratories. | pending. “DTS” and “DTS Digital Surround” are trademarks of |
| Digital Theater Systems, Inc. Copyright 1996 Digital Theater |
| Systems, Inc. All Rights Reserved. |
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