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
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
•VirtualSB OFF – Virtual Surround Back mode is switched off
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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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