Creating realistic sound fields
Reproducing theater ambience
In a movie theater, many speakers are located on the walls to reproduce impressive
With these many speakers, sound localization and sound movement can be expressed.
Surround/DSP modes built in this receiver can create almost the same surround sound as you can feel in a real movie theater.
Introducing the Surround/DSP modes
You can use the following Surround/DSP modes with this receiver.
■Surround modes
•Dolby Pro Logic II
•Dolby Digital
•DTS
■DSP (Digital Signal Processor) modes
•DAP (Digital Acoustic Processor) modes
•All Channel Stereo
■Surround modes
Dolby Pro Logic II*
Dolby Pro Logic II has a newly developed
Dolby Pro Logic II enables you to reproduce spacious sound from original sound without adding any new sounds and tonal colorations. Dolby Pro Logic II has two
Pro Logic II
encoded sources bearing the mark DOLBY SURROUND . You can enjoy a sound field very close to the one created with discrete 5.1 channel sounds.
Pro Logic II
•When Dolby Pro Logic II is activated, the PLII indicator lights up on the display.
Dolby Digital*
Dolby Digital is a digital signal compression method, developed by Dolby Laboratories, and enables
Dolby Digital 5.1 channel encoding method records and digitally compresses the left front channel, right front channel, center channel, left surround channel, right surround channel, and LFE channel signals (total 6 channels, but the LFE channel is counted as 0.1 channel. Therefore, it is called 5.1 channel).
Dolby Digital enables stereo surround sounds, and sets the cutoff frequency of the surround treble at 20 kHz, compared to 7 kHz for Dolby Pro Logic. As such, the sound movement and
•To enjoy software encoded with Dolby Digital, connect the source component using the digital terminal on the rear of this receiver. (See page 7.)
NOTE
Dolby Digital software can be roughly grouped into two categories
*Manufactured under license from Dolby Laboratories. “Dolby”, “Pro Logic”, and the
**“DTS” and “DTS Digital Surround” are registered trademarks of Digital Theater Systems, Inc.
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