Pioneer VSX-516-S/-K Listening to your system Using Virtual Surround Back VSB

06Listening to your system

Using Virtual Surround Back (VSB)

When you’re not using surround back speaker, 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

VSX-516 model only – The table indicates when you will hear the virtual surround back channel ( =Sound plays through surround speaker).

•Press SB ch PROCESSING / VSB MODE to select a virtual surround back channel option. Each press cycles through the following:

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

•VSB AUTO (VSX-516 model only) – Virtual Surround Back is automatically applied to 6.1 encoded sources (for example, Dolby Digital EX or DTS-ES)

•VSB OFF – Virtual Surround Back mode is switched off

	SBch		Standard		Advanced
Type of source	Processing /	Multichannel	Stereo sources
	Virtual SB				surround
	mode	sources	2 Pro Logic II x 2 Pro Logic	Neo:6
Dolby Digital EX/DTS-ES/	ON				a
WMA9 Pro encoded
multichannel sources with	AUTO				a
6.1ch surround
Dolby Digital/DTS/WMA9 Pro	ON				a
encoded multichannel
sources	AUTO				a
Dolby Digital/DTS/WMA9 Pro	ON		a,b		a
encoded stereo source; other
	AUTO
digital stereo source			c		a
Analog 2-channel (stereo)	ON		b
sources
	AUTO		c

aExcluding WMA9 Pro format

bOnly applicable when using the Virtual Surround Back mode.

cNot applicable when using the Virtual Surround Back mode.

Note

1• You can’t use virtual surround back with headphones, the STEREO / DIRECT mode, or if the surround speaker is set to NO in Speaker setting on page 38 (VSX-516 model only – however, the surround back speaker must be set to NO).

•Depending on the input signal and the Listening Mode, the Virtual Surround Back mode may not be effective.

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