05Listening to your system

Using the Virtual Surround Back mode

When you’re not using surround back speakers, selecting this mode allows you to hear a virtual surround back channel through your surround speakers. 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 receiver only apply this effect

to 6.1 encoded sources like Dolby Digital EX or DTS-ES.1

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

•Press SBch 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

 

SBch

 

 

 

Standard

 

 

 

 

Type of source

Processing /

Multichannel

 

 

Stereo sources

 

Advanced

Virtual SB

 

 

 

surround

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

mode

sources

2Pro Logic IIx

2 Pro Logic

Neo:6

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dolby Digital EX/DTS-ES 5.1 ch

ON

 

 

 

 

 

sources with 6.1 ch flagged

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

AUTO

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dolby Digital/DTS/SACD and DVD-

ON

 

 

 

 

 

Audio 5.1 ch sources

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

AUTO

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dolby Digital/DTS/PCM/SACD/WMA9

ON

 

 

a

Pro and DVD-Audio stereo sources

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

AUTO

 

 

b

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Analog 2-channel (stereo) sources

ON

 

 

a

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

AUTO

 

 

b

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

DTS-HD Master Audio/DTS-HD/Dolby

ON

 

 

 

 

 

c

Digital Plus/Dolby TrueHD/WMA9 Pro

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

AUTO

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

c

encoded and PCM 6.1 ch/7.1 ch

 

 

 

 

 

sources

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dolby Digital Plus/Dolby TrueHD/

ON

 

 

 

 

 

c

WMA9 Pro encoded and PCM 5.1 ch

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

AUTO

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

c

sources

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

DTS-HD Master Audio/DTS-HD/

ON

d

 

 

 

 

 

c

DTS-EXPRESS encoded 5.1 ch

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

AUTO

d

 

 

 

 

 

c

sources

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Note

1• You can’t use the Virtual Surround Back mode when the headphones are connected to this receiver or when any of the stereo, Front Stage Surround Advance, Auto level control stereo or Stream Direct mode is selected.

•You can only use the Virtual Surround Back mode if the surround speakers are on and the SB setting is set to NO in the Speaker Setting on page 48.

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

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