Pioneer VSX-1014TX Using the Virtual Surround Back mode VirtualSB, Listening to your system, Neo

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Using the Virtual Surround Back mode (VirtualSB)

When you’re not using surround back speakers, selecting this mode allows you to hear a virtual surround back channel through your surround speakers. For example, you can choose to listen to sources with no surround back channel information (for example, 5.1 encoded material) with emulated 6.1 encoding (VirtualSB ON). Sometimes the material may sound better in the 5.1 format for which it was originally encoded. In this case you can have the receiver only apply this effect to 6.1 encoded sources like Dolby Digital EX or DTS-ES (VirtualSB AUTO), or you can simply switch it off (VirtualSB OFF).

The table indicates when you will hear the virtual surround back channel. ( =Virtual surround back channel is active)

TUNER

TUNING/

MIDNIGHT/

ACOUSTIC

DIALOG

MULTI CH

SIGNAL

EXTENDED

SPEAKERS

EDIT

STATION

BAND

MPX

LOUDNESS

TONE

EQ

ENHANCEMENT

IN

SELECT

MODE

TUNER

MULTI

MULTI

CONTROL

JOG

JOG

VIDEO2 INPUT

SYSTEM

RETURN

INPUT

FL

MCACC

SETUP

ATT

DIMMER

SETUP MIC

MULTI JOG

PHONES

DIGITAL IN

S-VIDEO

VIDEO

L

AUDIO

R

•Press EXTENDED MODE (front panel) repeatedly to cycle the virtual surround back channel options. Each press cycles through the options as follows:

•VirtualSB ON – Virtual Surround Back is always used (for example, on 5.1 encoded material)

•VirtualSB AUTO – Virtual Surround Back is automatically applied to 6.1 encoded sources (for example, Dolby Digital EX or DTS-ES)

•VirtualSB OFF – Virtual Surround Back mode is switched off

Note

•You can’t use the Virtual Surround Back mode with headphones, or with the THX or STEREO / DIRECT modes.

•You can only use the Virtual Surround Back mode if the surround speakers are on and the Surr Back setting is set to NO in the Speaker Setting on page 44.

•You can’t hear the virtual surround back channel with DTS 96kHz/24 bit or PCM 96/88.2kHz sources.

•The Virtual Surround Back mode cannot be applied to sources that do not have surround channel information.

Type of source

VirtualSB

mode

Standard

Multichannel	Stereo sources
sources	2Pro Logic II 2 Pro Logic	Neo:6

Advanced surround

Dolby Digital EX/DTS-ES encoded	ON
multichannel source with 6.1ch
	AUTO
surround
Dolby Digital/DTS encoded	ON
multichannel source
	AUTO
Dolby Digital/DTS encoded stereo	ON
source; other digital stereo source
	AUTO
Analog 2-channel (stereo) source	ON
	AUTO

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