Pioneer SX-LX03 manual 08Surround sound settings, Dynamic Range Control, Dual mono setting

08Surround sound settings

Dynamic Range Control

When watching Dolby Digital or DTS material at low volume, low level sounds — including some of the dialog — can be difficult to hear properly. Using one of the Dynamic Range Control (DRC) settings can help by bringing up the low level sounds, while controlling high level peaks.

Dynamic Range Control works only with Dolby Digital soundtracks and some DTS soundtracks.

SETUP

		ENTER
1	TOOLS	Open the ‘Sound Setup’
menu.
	ENTER
2		Select ‘D.R.C.’, then press ENTER.
3		Select a setting.

Select one of the following:

Dual mono setting

Specifies how dual mono encoded Dolby Digital soundtracks should be played. This setting can also be used to change the audio channels for DVD-RW discs recorded in bilingual audio, and external inputs with bilingual audio (HDMI and optical/coaxial digital inputs).

SETUP

		ENTER
1	TOOLS	Open the ‘Sound Setup’
menu.
	ENTER
2		Select ‘Dual Mono’, then press
ENTER.
3		Select a setting.

Select one of the following:

•CH1 Mono – Only channel 1 is played

•CH2 Mono – Only channel 2 is played

•D.R.C. High – Dynamic range is reduced (loud sounds are reduced in volume while quieter sounds are increased)

•CH1/CH2 – Both channels are played through the front speakers

•D.R.C. Mid – Mid setting

•D.R.C. Off – No dynamic range adjustment (use when listening at higher volume)

4 ENTER Press to exit.

Virtual Surround Back

This mode allows you to use your surround speakers with standard surround setup to listen to a virtual surround back channel. You can choose to listen to sources with no surround back channel information, or if the material sounds better in the format (for example, 5.1) for which it was originally encoded, you can have the unit only apply this effect to 6.1 encoded sources like Dolby Digital EX or DTS-ES.1

SETUP

	ENTER
1 TOOLS	Open the ‘Sound Setup’
menu.

Note

1• Depending on the input signal and the listening mode, the Virtual Surround Back mode may not be effective.

• The Virtual Surround Back mode is not effective when the headphones are connected or when using the Front surround setup.

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