06Listening to your system

!SCI-FI– Designed for science fiction with lots of special effects

!MONO FILM – Creates surround sound from mono soundtracks

!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

!F.S.SURR FOCUS – Use to provide a rich surround sound effect directed to the center of where the front left and right speakers sound projection area converges.

!F.S.SURR WIDE – Use to provide a surround sound effect to a wider area than FOCUS mode.

FOCUS position

WIDE position

(Recommended)

 

 

Front left

Front right

 

Front left

Front right

speaker

speaker

 

speaker

speaker

 

 

 

 

 

!SOUND RETRIEVER AIR – Suitable for listening to the sound from a Bluetooth wireless technology device. The

SOUND RETRIEVER AIR listening mode can only selected when the ADAPTER PORT input or listening through headphones.

!PHONES SURR – When listening through headphones, you can still get the effect of overall surround.

Note

!When an Advanced Surround listening mode is selected, the effect level can be adjusted using the EFFECT parameter in Setting the Audio options on page 46 .

However, with F.S.SURR FOCUS,

F.S.SURR WIDE and SOUND RETRIEVER AIR, the effect level cannot be adjusted.

!The Front Stage Surround Advance

(F.S.SURR FOCUS and F.S.SURR WIDE) function allows you to create natural surround sound effects using just the front speakers and the subwoofer.

Using Stream Direct

Use the Stream Direct modes when you want to hear the truest possible reproduction of a source. All unnecessary signal processing is bypassed, and you’re left with the pure analog or digital sound source.

Processing differs depending on the input signal and whether or not surround back speakers are connected. For details, see Auto Surround, ALC and Stream Direct with different input signal formats on page 82 .

%While listening to a source, press AUTO/ALC/DIRECT

(AUTO SURR/ALC/STREAM DIRECT) to select the mode you want.

Check the digital format indicators in the front panel display to see how the source is being processed.

! AUTO SURROUND – See Auto playback on page 35 .

! ALC – Listening in Auto level control mode (page 35).

! DIRECT – Plays back sound from the source with the least modification next

to PURE DIRECT. With DIRECT, the only modifications added to PURE DIRECT playback are calibration of the sound field by the MCACC system and the Phase Control effect.

!PURE DIRECT – Plays back unmodified sound from source with only minimal digital treatment. No sound is output from the Speaker B in this mode.

Note

!When listening through headphones, you can select ALC or PURE DIRECT mode only.

Selecting MCACC presets

!Default setting: MEMORY 1

If you have calibrated your system for different listening positions, you can switch between settings to suit the kind of source you’re listening to and where you’re sitting (for example, watching movies from a sofa, or playing a video game close to the TV).

1Press to the receiver operation mode.

2While listening to a source, press

MCACC.

Press repeatedly to select one of the six MCACC presets. See Data Management on page 63 to check and manage your current settings.

!These settings have no effect when headphones are connected.

!You can also press k/lto select the MCACC preset.

Choosing the input signal

On this receiver, it is possible to switch the input signals for the different inputs as described below.

!This receiver can only play back Dolby Digital, PCM (32 kHz to 192 kHz) and DTS (including DTS 96/24) digital signal formats. The compatible signals via the HDMI terminals are: Dolby Digital, DTS, PCM (32 kHz to 192 kHz), Dolby TrueHD, Dolby Digital Plus, DTS- EXPRESS, DTS-HD Master Audio and SACD.

!You may get digital noise when an LD, CD, DVD or BD player compatible with DTS is playing an analog signal. To prevent noise, make the proper digital connections (page 15) and set the signal input to DIGITAL.

!Some DVD players don’t output DTS signals. For more details, refer to the instruction manual supplied with your DVD player.

1Press to the receiver operation mode.

2Press SIGNAL SEL to select the input signal corresponding to the source component.

Each press cycles through the options as follows:

!AUTO – The receiver selects the first available signal in the following order: HDMI;

DIGITAL; ANALOG.

!ANALOG – Selects an analog signal.

!DIGITAL – Selects an optical or coaxial digital signal.

!HDMI – Selects an HDMI signal.

—When the HDMI audio output parameter is set to THROUGH, the sound will be heard through your TV, not from this

receiver.

When set to DIGITAL, HDMI or AUTO (only selected DIGITAL or HDMI), the indicators light according to the signal being decoded (see Display on page 9 ).

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