Listening to your system

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MONO FILM – Creates surround sound from mono soundtracks

ENT.SHOW – Suitable for musical sources

EXPANDED – Creates an extra wide stereo field1

TV SURROUND – Provides surround sound for both mono and stereo TV sources

ADVANCED GAME – Suitable for video games

SPORTS – Suitable for sports programs

CLASSICAL – Gives a large concert hall-type sound

ROCK/POP – Creates a live concert sound for rock and/or pop music

UNPLUGGED – Suitable for acoustic music sources

EXT.STEREO – Gives multichannel sound to a stereo source, using all of your speakers

PHONES SURR. – When listening through headphones, you can still get the effect of overall surround.

2While listening to a source, press STEREO/A.L.C. for stereo playback.

Press repeatedly to switch between:

STEREO – The audio is heard with your surround settings and you can still use the Midnight, Loudness, and Tone functions.

A.L.C. – Listening in Auto level control stereo mode.

F.S.SURR FOCUS – See Using Front Stage Surround Advance below for more on this.

F.S.SURR WIDE – See Using Front Stage Surround Advance below for more on this.

Using Front Stage Surround Advance

The Front Stage Surround Advance function allows you to create natural surround sound effects using just the front speakers and the subwoofer.

iPod CTRL

 

 

STATUS

PHASE CTRL

CH LEVEL

THX

MPX

MEMORY

Tip

When an Advanced Surround listening mode is selected, the effect level can be adjusted using the EFFECT parameter in Setting the Audio options on page 96.

Listening in stereo

When you select STEREO, you will hear the source through just the front left and right speakers (and possibly your subwoofer depending on your speaker settings). Dolby Digital, DTS and WMA9 Pro multichannel sources are downmixed to stereo.

In the Auto level control stereo mode (A.L.C.), this receiver equalizes playback sound levels if each sound level varies with the music source recorded in a portable audio player.

 

 

STATUS

PHASE CTRL

CH LEVEL

 

 

THX

MPX

 

MEMORY

 

TV SOURCE RCV

AUTO/

STEREO/

STANDARD ADV SURR

 

DIRECT

A.L.C.

 

 

PGM

 

 

 

 

 

 

BD MENU

 

 

CH

VOL

SIGNAL SEL SLEEP

DIMMER

AUDIO

 

VOL

SR+ SBch MCACC

1 Set the operation selector switch to RCV.

 

TV SOURCE RCV

AUTO/

STEREO/

STANDARD ADV SURR

 

DIRECT

A.L.C.

 

 

PGM

 

 

 

 

 

BD MENU

 

CH

VOL

SIGNAL SEL SLEEP

DIMMER AUDIO

 

VOL

SR+ SBch MCACC

1Set the operation selector switch to RCV.

2While listening to a source, press STEREO/A.L.C. to select Front Stage Surround Advance modes.

STEREO – See Listening in stereo above for more on this.

A.L.C. – See Listening in stereo above for more on this.

F.S.SURR FOCUS – Use to provide a rich surround sound effect directed to the center of where the front left and right speakers sound projection area converges.

F.S.SURR WIDE – Use to provide a surround sound effect to a wider area than FOCUS mode.2

FOCUS position

 

WIDE position

(Recommended)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Front left

Front right

 

Front left

Front right

speaker

speaker

 

speaker

speaker

 

 

 

 

 

Note

1Use with Dolby Pro Logic for a stereo surround effect (stereo field is wider than Standard modes with Dolby Digital sources).

2When using F.S.SURR WIDE, a better effect can be obtained if the Full Auto MCACC procedure under Advanced MCACC is performed. For more on this, refer to Automatically setting up for surround sound (MCACC & Full Band Phase Control) on page 10.

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Pioneer SC-05, SC-07 manual Using Front Stage Surround Advance, Listening in stereo, Tip

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