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How Do I Adjust the Sound?

Muting Sound

The sound can be muted temporarily.

•Press the MUTE key on Remote Control unit. The MUTE indicator blinks during muting.

Use one of the following methods to cancel muting.

•Adjust the Volume control on either the receiver or Remote Control unit.

•Press the MUTE key again.

The MUTE indicator on the receiver panel goes off.

Midnight Theater Function (Dolby Digital playback only)

Any time you don’t want to experience the loud and soft volume extremes of recorded sound (for example, late at night), use midnight theatre function to reduce volume extremes. This feature keeps loud, dramatic sound from being too loud (perhaps disturbing family members or neighbors) while ensuring that you can still hear whispered dialog or other soft sounds.

Midnight theater function only works if you are listening to a Dolby Digital program that has been encoded with special compression data.

To use the Midnight Theater function:

1.Press the SOUND key on the receiver or Remote Control unit repeat- edly until Midnight 1, 2 or Off is displayed.

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2.Press the LCD cursor up/down (/) key on Remote Control unit to select Off, 1 or 2, then press the Home key.

When operating on the receiver, press the MULTI CONTROL (%/fi) key to select Off, 1 or 2, then press the SOUND key repeatedly until “SOUND FIXED” is displayed.

How Do I Adjust the Sound?

What are Listen Modes?

You can experience true home-theater sound with your Kenwood Audio- Video Receiver. This receiver incorporates several listen modes to let you enjoy surround sound with a wide variety of program sources. Each produces multiple channels of surround-sound, but each does it differently.

•Stereo: Stereo listen mode provides standard stereo sound to the front left and right speakers.

•Dolby 3 Stereo: Use Dolby 3 Stereo for systems that do not have surround speakers. When in the Dolby 3 Stereo mode, surround in- formation is redirected to the front left and right speakers. This mode is designed for use with Dolby Surround sources, but can also im- prove sound imaging and definition for programs that are not Dolby Surround encoded.

•Dolby Pro Logic: Dolby Pro Logic is a decoding process which pro- vides theater-like surround sound from Dolby Surround encoded sources (such as videotape, TV programs and LaserDisc software that are marked with the Dolby Surround logo). It offers excellent sound movement across the front of the room and a surround ambiance that seems to immerse you in a movie. Your receiver is equipped with a Dolby Pro Logic surround decoder to let you enjoy the wide variety of currently available Dolby Surround home video software.

•DSP (Digital Signal Processor): DSP allows you to create your own custom surround sound environments and use them with any source

(except Dolby Digital and DTS). You can select the ambience of an Arena, Jazz Club, Stadium, Cathedral or Theater, and then modify the parameters to ‘fine-tune’ the environment to your taste. (See “Apply- ing Digital Signal Processor (DSP) Effects” on page 23 for details about making DSP adjustments.)

•MPEG: MPEG, which stands for “Moving Pictures Experts Group”, is an international standard of digital video and audio compression and decompression in media. It is the most efficient encoding method for compressed multi-channel audio which provides the highest sound quality to deliver the best movie theater sound into the home.

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