Pioneer AS-LX70 Using Front Stage Surround Advance, Genre Sync Mode, Using the Sound Retriever

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05Listening to your system

•Ent.Show – Suitable for musical sources

•Expanded – Creates an extra wide stereo field

•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

Using Front Stage Surround Advance

The Front Stage Surround Advance modes are effective when you are using the Front surround speaker setup as described on page 6.

• Press to select a Front Stage Surround Advance mode.

The F.S.SURR indicator lights.

Press repeatedly to select Focus 5.1ch, Wide 5.1ch or Extra Power. You cannot select a mode other than Extra

Power for some audio streams.1

Genre Sync Mode

Only when you have this unit connected to an HDMI Control-compatible Pioneer HDD/DVD recorder and are using the HDMI Control function, you can make use of the Genre Sync Mode to have the listening mode automatically change to that which best matches the genre of the contents playing from the recorder.

•Set the HDMI Mode to AMP Mode (page 36).

•GENRE Press when listening to media contents from a recorder.

The most appropriate listening mode is selected and shown in the display. When the related genre could not be determined, No Genre or Can’t use may be displayed and the listening mode remains unchanged.

Tip

•Mainly used with Jukebox and MP3 sources.

•To use this function, you must have an HDMI Control- compatible Pioneer HDD/DVD recorder connected via HDMI, and have the HDMI Control function set to On.

Using the Sound Retriever

•Focus 5.1ch – Use to provide a rich surround sound effect directed to the center area where the left and right speakers sound projection converges.

•Wide 5.1ch – Use to provide a surround sound effect to a wider area than Focus 5.1ch mode.

•Extra Power – Outputs stereo sound (in the case of multi-channel sources, down-mixed stereo sound) from the surround speakers for powerful stereo effect.

Listening in stereo

You can listen to any source — stereo or multichannel — in stereo. When playing a multichannel source, all channels are downmixed to the front left/right speakers and the subwoofer.

•SURR Press repeatedly until STEREO shows in the display.

When audio data is removed during the MP3 or WMA compression process, sound quality often suffers from an uneven sound image. The Sound Retriever feature employs new DSP technology that helps bring CD quality sound back to compressed two channel audio by restoring sound pressure and smoothing jagged artifacts left over after compression.

• Press while listening to a stereo source2. Press repeatedly to switch between:

• Retriever On — Switches the Sound Retriever on.

• Retriever Off — Switches the Sound Retriever off.

Note

1 You cannot use this function for the following audio streams:

•Dolby TrueHD: over 88.2 kHz

•DTS-HD: over 88.2 kHz or with the channel format of 2/0

•DTS-Express: with the channel format of 2/0

2This setting cannot be used with multichannel sources. Also, in case of SACD, DTS-HD, DTS-Express, Dolby TrueHD, Dolby Digital Plus, and PCM (192 kHz/176.4 kHz), even stereo sources cannot be used.

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