Pioneer VSX-415-S/-K, VSX-515-S/-K operating instructions Extended Standard Advanced Type of source

06Listening to your system

Using the surround back channel (Extended mode)

VSX-515 model only

• Default setting: EXT. ON

You can have the receiver automatically use 6.1 decoding for 6.1 encoded sources (for example, Dolby Digital EX or DTS-ES), or you can choose to always use 6.1 decoding (for example, with 5.1 encoded material). With 5.1 encoded sources, a surround back channel will be generated, but the material may sound better in the 5.1 format for which it was origi- nally encoded (in which case, you can simply

switch the Extended mode off).1

•Press EXTENDED MODE (front panel) to select a surround back channel option. Each press cycles through the options as follows:

•EXT. ON – 6.1 decoding is always used (for example, a surround back channel will be generated for 5.1 encoded material)

•EXT. AUTO – Automatically switches to 6.1 decoding for 6.1 encoded sources (for example, Dolby Digital EX or DTS-ES)

•EXT. OFF – Maximum 5.1 playback

	Extended		Standard		Advanced
Type of source		Multichannel	Stereo sources
	mode				surround
		sources	2Pro Logic II x 2 Pro Logic	Neo:6
Dolby Digital EX/	ON			*
DTS-ES/WMA9 Pro
encoded multi-	AUTO			*
channel source with
6.1/7.1ch surround
Dolby Digital/DTS/	ON			*
WMA9 Pro encoded
	AUTO			*
multichannel source
Dolby Digital/WMA9	ON			*
Pro/DTS encoded
	AUTO			*
stereo source; other
digital stereo source
Analog 2-channel	ON
(stereo) source
	AUTO

* Excluding WMA9 Pro format

Note

1• You can’t use the surround back channel with headphones, the STEREO / DIRECT mode, the AUTO SURR. mode, or if the surround back speaker is set to NO in Speaker setting on page 48.

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

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