Creating Realistic Sound Fields

About Relations between Speaker Layout and Surround Modes

Available Surround modes will vary depending on how many speakers are used with this receiver.

Make sure that you have set the speaker information correctly (see pages 12 to 14).

If only front speakers are connected, you cannot use Surround modes.

If rear speakers are not connected, you cannot use DAP modes and All Channel Stereo.

Speaker Layout

Available Surround modes

When the center and rear speakers

Turning on or off the Surround modes

 

 

are connected (5 channels):

 

Each time you press SURROUND ON/OFF, Surround modes turn on or off.

Front

TV

Front

 

 

 

SPK

 

 

TUNED STEREO

AUTOMUTING

 

SURROUND ON/OFF

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R

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speaker

Center speaker

speaker

ON/OFF

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SURROUND

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(Remote)

(Front panel)

Last selected

SURROUND OFF

 

 

 

Surround mode

 

 

 

 

 

Ex.: “PL II MUSIC” has been selected.

Rear

 

Rear

Selecting the Surround modes

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

speaker

 

speaker

Each time you press SURROUND MODE, Surround modes change as follows:

 

 

 

 

 

 

SPK

 

 

TUNED STEREO AUTOMUTING

 

 

 

 

 

DIGITAL AUTO

L

R

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VOLUME

When the rear speakers are connected

SURROUND

SURROUND MODE

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S.WFR

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MODE

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(4 channels):

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Front

TV

Front

(Remote)

(Front panel)

PL II MOVIE

 

PL II MUSIC

 

LIVE CLUB

 

DANCE CLUB

speaker

 

speaker

 

 

 

 

 

 

HALL

 

 

 

PAVILION

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Note:

 

ALL CH STEREO

(Back to the beginning)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

When the digital multichannel software such as Dolby Digital or DTS Digital

 

 

 

Surround is played back, the appropriate multichannel Surround mode is

Rear

 

Rear

automatically activated ("DOLBY DIGITAL" or "DTS SURROUND") by pressing

 

SURROUND ON/OFF (with the digital input mode selected).

 

speaker

 

speaker

• For Dolby Digital 2 channel software, you need to select "PLII MUSIC" or

 

 

 

"PLII MOVIE" by pressing SURROUND MODE.

 

 

 

For more details, see the table on page 19.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Turning on or off the Surround modes

 

 

 

When the center speaker is connected

 

Each time you press SURROUND ON/OFF, Surround modes turn on or off.

(3 channels):

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SPK

 

 

TUNED STEREO AUTOMUTING

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

DIGITAL AUTO

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SURROUND ON/OFF

LINEAR PCM S.WFR

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ON/OFF

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

TV

 

 

SURROUND

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Front

 

Front

PL II MOVIE

 

 

 

 

 

 

(Remote) (Front panel)

 

 

SURROUND OFF

 

speaker

 

 

 

speaker

 

 

or

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Center speaker

 

 

 

 

PL II MUSIC

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ex.: “PL II MUSIC” has been selected.

Selecting the Surround modes

Each time you press SURROUND MODE, Surround modes change as follows:

SURROUND

SURROUND MODE

 

 

MODE

 

SPK

TUNED STEREO AUTOMUTING

DIGITAL AUTO

L R

PROLOGIC ΙΙ DSP H.PHONE INPUT ATT

 

 

LINEAR PCM

S.WFR

 

(Remote) (Front panel)

PL II MOVIE

 

PL II MUSIC

 

Note:

When the digital multichannel software such as Dolby Digital or DTS Digital Surround is played back, the appropriate multichannel Surround mode is automatically activated ("DOLBY DIGITAL" or "DTS SURROUND") by pressing SURROUND ON/OFF (with the digital input mode selected).

For Dolby Digital 2 channel software, you need to select "PLII MUSIC" or "PLII MOVIE" by pressing SURROUND MODE.

For more details, see the table on page 19.

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